toward burmese prodemocracy movements. whenever the thai goverment moved the ABSDF camps operating on thai soil from one place to another ABSDE leader had little choice but to comply. thus the credibility of ABSDE leader was often undermind. whenever they were forced out of a place by the thai-goverment grassroots members of the ABSDF tended to feel that their leader were not making any effort to improve the lives of their followers. a foemer ABSDF member recounted in frustration