Unfortunately for this claim, the junta also insists it has signed ceasefire agreements with most of the same ethnic minorities. A recent Burmese military push against Shan insurgents spilled into Thailand. A key border town, Mae Sai, had to be evacuated after two civilians were killed in shelling. Tachilek, on the Myanmar side, was also shelled, but most of the casualties there appear to have been military. Not a word.
Tensions have yet to be defused.
It isn't only the minorities on the Myanmar-Thai border who are deeply unhappy and mistrustful. In 1991, a quarter of a million Muslims in Myanmar's Arakan state fled into Bangladesh in a similar state of terror. India, which was deeply critical of the military repression in Myanmar in the late 1980s and early 1990s, has normalized relations as far as possible. It decided it simply could not afford to close dialogue channels with an immediate neighbor. The flood of Burmese maids is of no concern to most Thais.