cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/38154085

Healthcare services in refugee camps along the Thailand-Myanmar border run by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) were suspended on 27 January 2025, following an order from the new United States (US) President, Donald Trump.

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So now they’re death camps. Thanks asshole.

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A very Donald Trump thing to do.

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So it’s concentration camps. They’ll soon make them work themselves to death.

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I’ve seen somewhere that work makes you free so making the refugees work would be a good thing!

I can’t remember where I saw that though…

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No, these camps are outside the USA. The concentration camps are domestic.

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They want a pandemic. All of the things they have done so far regarding public health can only be explained that way as far as I can tell.

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I was saying that just this morning myself. He told the CDC that they are not allowed to have any contact with the WHO at all even while we’re still officially a part of it for the next year.

That can only be a desire for another pandemic.

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Pandemics means market drops and supply chain interruptions, which destroys a bunch of value, which means the currently-wealthy can buy up the rest of the world at fire sale prices and price gouge for what’s left.

Ten richest men in the world doubled their wealth to 1.5tn during covid. They want to repeat that. Millions dead is a minor side effect they don’t care about.

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Wasn’t/Isn’t reducing world population a big deal for the rich as well? They want just the right amount of “people” to keep their luxurious lifestyles going.

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None of their lifestyles will survive climate change but the jokes on us first.

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Why does my gut feeling tell me this is breaking some international laws? Not that anything will be done, just saying this reeks of illegal.

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It’s straight up genocide.

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“International Law” is much different thing from normal law. There is no real enforcement mechanism, so it’s very much a case of “might makes right”. In this particular case, it sounds like Trump pulled funding, which is not the same as shutting it down, even if the effect on the refugees is the same.

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