Both Thailand and Myanmar have been in chaos due to protests (2020–2021 Thai protests and 2021 Myanmar protests against the military juntas in both countries; there has been excessive solidarity between Thai and Burmese protesters. However, while Thai protests, despite its significance, is mostly peaceful, the Burmese protests were met with brutal repression. The Thai government, led by a former General himself, is accused of helping the Tatmadaw to maintain power in Myanmar, which was denied. On the same time, Burmese refugees have been flowing to Thailand, creating a border crisis and fear of COVID-19 spikes, in which the Thai government was also accused of trying to drive the refugees away, despite having guaranteed not to turn away the refugees.