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影子银行如何滋养缅甸却使其军队饥饿How shadow banking feeds Myanmar while starving its military

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2022年,年轻的缅甸难民在泰国湄索县携带食品援助行走,此前他们为躲避与武装反对团体的军事冲突而逃离。照片:法新社Young Myanmar refugees walk with food aid in Thailand’s Mae Sot district in 2022, after fleeing military clashes with armed opposition groups. Photo: AFP

在曼谷一家潜水酒吧的周五夜晚,一群缅甸流亡青年轻声跟唱着一首由原声吉他弹奏的哀伤民谣。

On a recent Friday night in a Bangkok dive bar, a group of young Myanmar exiles sang softly along to a mournful ballad played on an acoustic guitar.

现场无人计划离开,无论是返回故乡还是回家睡觉。他们逃离战争、经济崩溃以及被迫征召进入2021年政变夺权后的军队。

None among the crowd had any plans to leave, either for their homeland or home for bed. They fled war, a broken economy and forced conscription into a military that seized power in the 2021 coup.

尽管他们在泰国的未来充满不确定性,但每月寄回家的硬通货让他们与故乡的亲人——父母和兄弟姐妹——的联系得以延续……

While their future in Thailand is uncertain, their ties to home are kept alive by the hard currency they send back each month to parents and siblings left...