Fear and desperation amid trash
December 23rd 2009 07:54
Despite terrible living conditions and the fear of being sent back to their country, several hundred illegal immigrants from Myanmar live and earn an average of $1 per day collecting plastic at the rubbish dump near the border town of Mae Sot.
A Buddhist monk talks to illegal immigrants from Myanmar living at a rubbish dump site near Mae Sot late December 22, 2009.
Credit: REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
link to photographs of the unfortunate trash livers
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