Songkran/Thingyan on the Thai Burma border 2014

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Songkran/Thingyan on the Thai Burma border 2014

Each year in April Thais celebrate Songkran, a celebration ushering in a new year in Thailand with people throwing water, attending religious and cultural events and martial arts competitions. On the Thai-Burma border town of Mae Sot, where as many as 200,000 migrants from Burma live, Burmese migrants joined with Thais for a week of festive fun.

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