There were no signs marking the international border, no fences, no barbed wire.
这儿是没有任何标记的国际边界,没有围墙,没有铁丝网。
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The refugee camps were first set up in 1984; there are now nine of them, settlements of bamboo-built houses behind barbed wire spread out not far from the border town of Mae Sot.
In those early cold war days, the 800-mile border between East and West Germany was lightly guarded and delineated by a few strands of barbed wire, and thousands fled to the West.