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An increasing number of North Korean refugees are arriving in northern Thailand, fleeing poverty and political oppression at home.

Thailand began deporting more than 4,000 Hmong asylum seekers in secret Monday, drawing widespread international condemnation for sending members of the ethnic minority back to Laos.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka's president promised Friday to send nearly 300,000 Tamil war refugees who are being held in military-run camps back to their homes in the next four months, the government said.

More than 3,000 ethnic Karen villagers have fled into Thailand as Myanmar troops shelled near a camp where they were sheltering, one of the largest movements of refugees across the border in a decade, aid groups said Sunday.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (CNN) -- Shell-shocked and scarred both inside and out, they huddle in tents, water and medicine in short supply -- hundreds of thousands of people, civilian victims of Sri Lanka's recently-ended civil war.