More than 2,500 Burmese were forced to flee and seek shelter in Thailand’s Tak province amid the recent armed conflicts between a rebel Karen ethnic group, the Karen National Union (KNU), and the military regime in Burma. Somchai Kitcharoenrungroj, deputy governor of western Tak province, said that about 2,503 refugees from Burma, 545 of whom are children, are now being sheltered in Mae Sot, a district in Tak province. The military regime ousted the elected Aung San Suu Kyi in a February coup, sparking protests and clashes between the army and ethnic minority insurgents, like the KNU, in border areas of Burma, also known as Myanmar. On Wednesday, clashes erupted between the KNU and the military regime in Lay Kay Kaw town, in which the junta had allegedly fired artillery shells at civilian residences. This came after more than 30 people were reportedly arrested in a junta raid in Karen …