人权观察致信中国，指责中国违反国际法，强迫数千名缅甸人返回饱受冲突蹂躏的祖国。
人权观察说，北京最近遣返了至少4千名逃到中国云南省的缅甸克钦人。人权观察说，这些难民8月底被送回缅甸，此前当局简单地宣布他们不是难民。
自从2011年6月以来，数万人逃离缅甸北部的战火，当时缅甸军方和克钦族独立军之间持续17年的停火归于失败。
中国否认强行遣返克钦人，声称他们在战火平息后自愿离开中国。但人权观察说，克钦邦的暴力仍在继续，又有数千人失去家园。
Human Rights Watch has sent a letter to China accusing it of violating international law by forcing thousands of Burmese to return to their conflict-torn homeland.
The group says Beijing recently returned at least 4,000 ethnic Kachins who had fled to China’s Yunnan province. It says they were sent home in late August after the government “summarily declared” they were not refugees.
Tens of thousands of people have fled fighting in northern Burma since June 2011, when a 17-year cease-fire between the military and the Kachin Independence Army collapsed.
China has denied forcibly returning the Kachins, saying they voluntarily returned to Burma when the fighting ended. But Human Rights Watch says the violence continues in Kachin state and that thousands more are being displaced.