Men play sports at Mae La Oon refugee camp. Over 16, 000 people, mostly Karen, live at the camp. They can't return to Burma without risking imprisonment or death. In the camp they live in overcrowded conditions. Their small huts are built on sleep hill sides which are susceptible to land slides during the rainy seasons. They can't work making them dependent on handouts..In 2006, the UNHCR identified Karen refugees as a group requiring particular protection, Canada responded by agreeing to resettle over 3,500 of them over three years, making it the third largest recipient with USA being first and Australia second. By 2010 as many as 30, 000 displaced Karen tribes people will take part in what the United Nations High Commission Refugees (UNHCR) described as ?the world?s largest refugee resettlement operation?. .In Karen state the Burmese military government troops named the State Peace & Development Council (SPDC), by a New York public relations firm the junta hired , commit atrocities against the local population in one of the longest civil war in recorded history. The SPDC burn villages to the ground; force farmers to grow food for the military, build roads and to be porters. Torture, rape and killing by the military are so common that villagers often go into hiding before the soldiers even arrive at their homes. They are thousands of internally displaced persons (IDP) in Burma and nearly 500, 000 who fled to Thailand..