Palaung in Northern Thailand, The Comics and the flesh

and the flesh

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Palaung in Northern Thailand, The Comics and the fleshMichael C. Howard and Wattana Wattanapun Today over two thousand Palaunga group of mountain peoples who speak Mon Khmerlive in a handful of villages north of Chiang Mai in Thailand. They fled here from Burma in the 1980s to escape the fighting between communist insurgents and Burmese army troops. Though granted sanctuary, in the late 1990s many of the Palaung in Thailand found themselves involved in a new conflict over land use in northern Thailand's