Ninety-three refugees from Myanmar who have been living in camps in Thailand have gone home, the second such return since 2016, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday, raising hopes for the eventual closure of some of Asia’s oldest refugee camps. About 100,000 refugees from Myanmar, most of them ethnic minority Karen people, have been living in nine camps along the Thailand-Myanmar border, many since the Myanmar army began sustained offensives against Karen guerillas in the early 1980s. The refugees left on Monday from five camps then split into two groups and crossed into Myanmar’s Karen and Kayah states, the UN refugee agency said in a statement. The first voluntary repatriation, of 68 Myanmar refugees from the camps began in 2016. At the time, the UNHCR called it a “milestone”.