Four years after Myanmar's military seized power in a coup, the country is in the grip of a bloody civil war that has driven many of the country's young across the border to Thailand.
There, they scrape by doing hard jobs for little pay — often living in fear of being arrested and sent back to Myanmar.
Reporters met three of them in Mahachai, a district of Samut Sakhon in Bangkok's western suburbs known as "Little Myanmar" for its population of migrant workers.
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