A few hundred kilometers northwest of the Thai capital, the Thai-Burmese border region was also in the midst of the annual monsoon.
Across the border, there were vain hopes that the monsoon rain would hamper offensives by government forces and the DKBA. On the Thai side, however, the heavy rain was bringing more misery to the refugee camps—slicing through the thin thatch of the cramped huts and turning the unpaved paths between them into mud.
“You can well imagine the despair such times bring,” said a Western diplomat, expressing his own frustration at the intractable refugee problem.
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