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  • #16
    Traffickers Use Abductions, Prison Ships to Feed Asian Slave Trade
    AMY SAWITTA LEFEVRE & ANDREW R.C. MARSHALL
    Wednesday, October 22, 2014



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    • #17
      Shocking Rape Video Provides First Visual Evidence of Trafficking Camp Brutality in Thailand
      Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison
      Thursday, October 23, 2014


      The alleged rapist smiles at the camera while raping a Rohingya woman
      Photo by video still

      PHUKET: Graphic video of a gang rape may be the first real evidence of the brutal treatment of captives in the secret camps run by human traffickers in the jungles and plantations of southern Thailand.

      If authenticated, the video provides a compelling visual reference in support of survivors' claims that rapes, killings and beatings are still taking place as Thailand's horrific trade in people continues unabated.

      Phuketwan understands the disturbing footage has been passed to Immigration authorities south of Phuket in the hope they can trace the perpetrators and have them charged.

      The woman and the faces of two of the rapists are clearly identifiable.

      In the worst moment of the video, one of the rapists turns while carrying out the rape and smiles at the camera as the victims covers her face with her arms.

      It is believed the victim and her two rapists may still be in a jungle camp in Thailand, along with the person who recorded the video.

      Survivors from the camps have told Phuketwan and other news outlets that the traffickers have become so free from fear of being caught that rapes and killings remain part of the process of extracting ransom payments from the relatives of Rohingya boatpeople.

      The Rohingya, mostly from Burma's Rakhine state but also sometimes from refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh, are fleeing ethnic cleansing or poor treatment and hope to find sanctuary in Malaysia.

      The beginning of the ''safe'' sailing season in two weeks is likely to produce an explosion in the numbers of boatpeople travelling south.

      Chris Lewa of the Arakan Project, which tracks the movements of the would-be refugees fleeing Burma and Bangladesh, says that 9000 boatpeople departed in November last year and a similar number or more are expected to take to the sea north of Thailand this year.

      ''A massive number of people have started moving now,'' she said. ''I am fearful of what is going to happen.''

      Local authorities north of Phuket recently intercepted a large group of boatpeople as traffickers prepared to move them south by road to the jungle camps where the abuses and mass extortion takes place.

      Police along Thailand's Andaman Sea coast usually document arriving boatpeople as illegal immigrants and seldom if ever investigate claims that human trafficking is taking place.

      However, claims that mass kidnapping is now occurring inside Bangladesh and that most new arrivals in Thailand are destined to become slave labor on fishing boats or in factories in Malaysia or Indonesia has triggered intervention by local residents in Phang Nga, the province north of Phuket.

      The district chief in the town of Takuapa, backed by local Muslim, Buddhist and Christian residents, has interviewed 134 boatpeople at length and declared that, according to international standards, they are victims of human trafficking.

      A special report published yesterday by Reuters news agency adds weight to claims that because Thai authorities have failed to enforce laws against human traffickers on land or at sea, abductions are now taking place in Bangladesh. Thai vessels are said to sail north to collect the victims.

      The alleged rape video highlights the audacity of the traffickers and the impunity with which they are pursuing their trade in people through Thailand.

      Since 2009, when Phuketwan reporters working with the South China Morning Post newspaper in Hong Kong first revealed the inhumane ''pushbacks'' of boatpeople from Thailand, a lax approach to investigating human trafficking has led to Thailand being downgraded this year to Tier 3, the lowest level on the US State Department's Trafficking in Persons register.

      Thailand is unlikely to regain Tier 2 status unless there is evidence that a serious attempt is being made to halt the growing trade in people through Thailand and arrest those now heading the human traffickers.

      Declaration of Interest: In July next year, Phuketwan journalists Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian face a continuing trial over criminal defamation and Computer Crimes Act charges brought by the Royal Thai Navy, citing a 41-word paragraph from a Pulitzer prize-winning Reuters special report on the Rohingya boatpeople. Reuters and other news organisations in Thailand that published the same paragraph have not been charged. The charges were laid before the military takeover in Thailand.

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      • #18
        8,000 more Rohingya flee Myanmar: Expert
        Saturday, October 25, 2014




        Ethnic Rohingya refugees from Myanmar wave as they are transported by a wooden boat to a temporary shelter in Krueng Raya in Aceh Besar in this file photo.
        Reuters

        YANGON, Myanmar
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        • #19
          Myanmar profits off Rohingya exodus by 'aiding traffickers'
          7/11/2014


          Helping them on their way: Myanmar's own security forces, who are profiting off the mass departure of one of the world's most-persecuted minorities by extracting payments from those fleeing. A report to be released Friday by the Bangkok-based advocacy group Fortify Rights, and reporting by The Associated Press, indicate the practice is far more widespread and organized than previously thought, with Myanmar naval boats going so far as to escort asylum seekers out to larger human-trafficking ships waiting at sea that are operated by transnational criminal networks.



          (AP photo)

          "Myanmar authorities are not only making life so intolerable for Rohingya that they have to flee, they're also complicit in the process - they're taking payments and zprofiting off their exodus," said Matthew Smith, director of Fortify Rights.

          Rakhine state spokesman Win Myaing dismissed the allegations as "rumors," saying he has not "heard of anything happening like that." He said any naval boats approaching such vessels were likely aiming to help fishermen in need.

          More than 100,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar's western shores by boat since Buddhist-Muslim violence erupted in Rakhine state two years ago, according to estimates provided by experts tracking their movements.

          Chris Lewa, director of the advocacy group Arakan Project, said increasing desperation is behind a huge surge since Oct 15, with an average of 900 people per day piling into cargo ships parked offshore. In Rakhine state, an aggressive campaign by authorities over the last few months to register family members and officially categorize them as "Bengalis" - implying they are illegal migrants from neighbouring Bangladesh - has aggravated their situation.


          In this Nov. 28, 2013 photo, a Rohingya boy watches over a small drug store at The Chaung refugee camp, on the outskirts of Sittwe, Myanmar.
          (AP photo)

          The deepening crisis comes ahead of a visit by President Barack Obama to Myanmar next week for a regional summit, his second in two years. Obama, who has repeatedly pointed to democratic changes in Myanmar as a foreign policy bright spot, called President Thein Sein recently by telephone to express concerns about a reform process analysts say has been backsliding for months.

          Myanmar, a predominantly Buddhist nation of 50 million that is still struggling to emerge from half a century of military rule, is home to an estimated 1.3 million Rohingya, and most are considered stateless. Though many of their families arrived from Bangladesh generations ago, almost all are denied citizenship by Myanmar as well as Bangladesh. In the last two and a half years, attacks by Buddhist mobs have left hundreds dead and 140,000 trapped in camps where they live without access to adequate health care, education or jobs.

          Smith said authorities in Myanmar have been profiting off the Rohingya for decades, and extracting money from those departing was only one way. If Rohingya residents attempt to travel to neighbouring villages without permission from local authorities, they risk being arrested and forced to pay bribes for their freedom, he said. The restrictions are so intense that even those who repair their own houses - which often crumble during the rainy season - can be fined if they do so without permission.

          Many of those fleeing today have been forced to sell everything they have, including precious belongings - land, cattle, gold - to human trafficking brokers who typically charge $2,000 for passage to Malaysia, a Muslim country. Many end up in secret jungle camps in Thailand, where they face extortion and beatings until relatives come up with enough money to win their release.

          Thai authorities have also been accused of colluding with traffickers, but have denied the allegations.


          In this Nov. 29, 2013 photo, a Rohingya boy wades through the water carrying a basket of fish at The Chaung refugee camp on the outskirts of Sittwe, Myanmar. A report to be released Friday, Nov. 7, 2014, by the Bangkok-based advocacy group Fortify Rights, and reporting by The Associated Press, indicate the practice is far more widespread and organized than previously thought, with Myanmar naval boats going so far as to escort asylum seekers out sea, where larger ships operated by transnational criminal networks wait to pick them up.

          (AP photo)

          "It's draining them economically," Smith said. "This is one of the poorest communities in Asia, one of the most abused, and this whole process is taking the little resources that they have left in exchange for even more abuse."

          According to Fortify Rights, the brokers may collect sums averaging $500 to $600 per small boatload of asylum seekers, usually numbering between 50 and 100 people, and hand those payments to officials from Myanmar's police, navy and army.

          Police also have collected payments directly from passengers, the group said, adding that the Myanmar navy once demanded $7,000 from a trafficking ship offshore to allow them to leave.

          The small boats transport the Rohingya to larger ships further out at sea that can carry as many as 1,000 people. The Fortify Rights report said the vast majority of those fleeing are routinely deceived, finding themselves "in the custody of abusive human trafficking and smuggling gangs, who detain them in conditions of enslavement and exploitation .... nearly all endure or witness torture, deprivation of food and water, confinement in extremely close quarters and other abuses throughout their journeys."


          In this Nov. 29, 2013 photo, Rohingya men walk at a local fish market at The Chaung refugee camp, on the outskirts of Sittwe, Myanmar.
          (AP photo)

          The Associated Press has documented similar accounts in Rakhine state. The family member of one Rohingya broker - since arrested on drug trafficking and other charges - said his boat set off from a small creek inland and had to pass a police post on the way to the sea where an obligatory payment had to be made. The family member spoke in Myin Hlut town on condition of anonymity for fear of being arrested.

          The family member also recounted navy ships escorting Rohingya asylum seekers out to sea, as well as chasing them to extract more bribes. In another instance documented by AP, a dozen Myanmar soldiers boarded a vessel filled with Rohingya in the Bay of Bengal, bound their hands and bludgeoned them with wooden planks and iron rods before finally extracting money and letting them go.

          Smith said the reason Myanmar authorities were exploiting trafficking networks themselves was simple: they can make tremendous money doing it.

          "Assuming that just half the 100,000 who have fled in the last two years have been forced to pay $2,000 each for passage to Malaysia, we're talking about a trade worth $100 million, he said. "That's why we see government complicity. There is a perverse and disturbing economic element to all of this."

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          • #20
            Hundreds of Boatpeople Held North of Phuket: Anti-Trafficking Vigilantes Seek to Save Thailand's Reputation
            Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison
            Saturday, November 8, 2014


            Captive Rohingya pray in a police cell north of Phuket this week
            Photo by supplied

            PHUKET: Residents and police arrested hundreds of boatpeople on the coast north of Phuket last night as a people's revolt against human trafficking in Thailand grew and claimed its largest success so far.

            First reports said that the boat from Burma (Myanmar), apprehended off the Andaman province of Ranong, included 23 women and 13 child passengers. Four or five people accused of being ''brokers'' are also in police custody, local contacts told Phuketwan.

            Leading the team that will question the boatpeople today is Colonel Grissak Sommoonnark, once the superintendent of police in the Phuket holiday hub of Patong, who has signed an anti-trafficking MoU with Takuapa district chief Manit Pleantong from the neighboring province of Phang Nga.

            The pair worked together when both were previously posted to Kuraburi, a fishing port on the border between the two provinces north of Phuket where human trafficking has been allowed to flourish over the past five years.

            The Rohingya and Bangladeshis apprehended overnight were discovered by locals on a boat among mangroves near the township of Kaper, another key transfer point on the trafficking trail that leads would-be refugees south through Thailand to abusive treatment in secret jungle camps close to the border with Malaysia.

            A provincial police boat - one of several naval forces along the Andaman coast - led the arrest of the 299 boatpeople, latest among scores who have recently arrived north of Phuket as the exodus of Rohingya, driven by ethnic cleansing, grows to record numbers.

            Earlier this week, after the capture of 78 boatpeople in Ranong, eight plain-clothes officers from southern Thailand were spotted in Ranong province, driving four pickups. Could it be that they were in the region to transfer boatpeople south?

            No, they said, they were investigating claims of illegal fuel being sold off the coast.

            ''There is no illegal fuel being sold off this coast,'' Khun Manit told Phuketwan. ''Next to tourism along the Andaman, the only industry of note is human trafficking.''

            Khun Manit is continuing his campaign to end human trafficking in Thailand. But breaking open the secret trade in people that shames his country is not easy.

            As this week's newly-arrested boatpeople were to be processed to international standards, Khun Manit called on local officials from the Social Development and Human Security Ministry to help.

            ''Can't it wait?'' they told him. ''We'd really like to celebrate the Loy Kratong festival tonight.''

            Reaction further south in Phang Nga province has been more enthusiastic.

            Christian, Buddhist and Muslim volunteers there have been helping to end a massive coverup that allows police to process all boatpeople as ''illegal immigrants'' without the need to question closely whether they are actually victims of human trafficking.

            But the issue faced by Khun Manit and Colonel Grissak today will be whether the new process of determining human trafficking is used on the latest boatpeople or the old, easy-to-do process. The pair will need the help of volunteers and activists.

            If boatpeople are found to be human trafficking victims, it falls to the Social Development and Human Security Ministry to fund their support in Thailand. The ministry has no budget to cope with thousands of potential human trafficking victims.

            Before Khun Manit's team of volunteers discovered the 78 boatpeople this week, they found a smaller group of 24, wearing traffickers' colored wristbands, on Tuesday.

            Some of the faces were familiar.

            Those familiar faces had been part of an earlier group that was arrested by Khun Manit last month and determined by police in Takuapa to all be ''illegal immigrants.''

            Processed in a perfunctory fashion and transferred to the Immigration office in the Thai-Burma border port of Ranong, the boatpeople had been quickly recycled into the arms of ''brokers.''

            Those familiar faces quickly found themselves deposited back on the coast of Thailand.

            The traffickers' revolving door remains in operation, recycling would-be refugees into the coastal provinces of Thailand along a trail that leads south to brutal extortion, rapes and deaths in the secret jungle camps.

            Thailand was dropped to the lowest level on the US State Department's Trafficking in Persons register earlier this year and is likely to remain on Tier 3 until it shows serious intent to deal with the issue.

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            • #21
              Thailand was dropped to the lowest level on the US State Department's Trafficking in Persons register earlier this year and is likely to remain on Tier 3 until it shows serious intent to deal with the issue.
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              • #22
                Thailand to push back more than 200 boat people - police
                Amy Sawitta Lefevre

                BANGKOK, Nov 10 (Reuters) - More than 200 boat people held in southern Thailand will be pushed back out to sea, police said on Monday, despite calls by rights group to stop a policy that puts would-be asylum seekers at risk.

                Around 259 people were found at sea on Saturday and were arrested for illegal entry.

                Their discovery around 3 km (1.86 miles) from the coast follows what one NGO said was a "major maritime exodus" from neighbouring Myanmar of Rohingya, a mostly stateless Muslim minority group from the country's west.

                "On average around 900 people left by boat from the middle of last month. We saw a major maritime exodus of nearly 10,000 people," said Chris Lewa of the Arakan Project, a Rohingya advocacy group, adding that increasing desperation was one reason for the departures.

                Authorities in Thailand's Kapoe district said it was unclear whether any of the group were Rohingya but interviews with some of the group showed they were heading for Malaysia to find work or, in the women's' cases, join their husbands.

                The 259 will be put back on boats and sent back to Myanmar, said Police Colonel Sanya Prakobphol, head of Kapoe district police.

                "They are Muslims from Myanmar ... They are illegal migrants," Sanya told Reuters by telephone.

                "If they come in then we must push them back ... once they have crossed the sea border into Myanmar then that's considered pushing them back. What they do next is their problem."

                Tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar's Rakhine state since 2012, when violent clashes with ethnic Rakhine Buddhists killed hundreds and made about 140,000 homeless.

                Many were Rohingya, who now often live in apartheid-like conditions and have little or no access to jobs, schools or healthcare.

                The boats often sail from Myanmar and Bangladesh to Thailand where, as Reuters reported last year, human trafficking-gangs hold thousands of boat people in brutal jungle camps until relatives pay ransoms to secure their release.

                Testimonies from Bangladeshi and Rohingya survivors in an October Reuters Special Report provided evidence of a dramatic shift in human-trafficking tactics.

                Sanya said the 259 people were currently being held at a community hall and that his team were "looking after them like relatives" but that they would soon be put back on boats.

                "Who will feed them? I'm struggling day to day to feed them," said Sanya.

                "No country wants an outsider to come in to their house."

                Thailand was downgraded in June to the lowest category in the U.S. State Department's annual ranking of the world's worst human-trafficking centres, putting it in the same category as North Korea and the Central African Republic.

                The same month, the Thai military vowed to "prevent and suppress human trafficking", after having seized power from an elected government on May 22.

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                • #23
                  Ranong villagers trained to 'push on Rohingya boat people'
                  November 10, 2014

                  Officials in Ranong have trained some 400 villagers to watch out for illegal Rohingya 'boat people' and told them to alert the authorities if they see anyone from the stateless ethnic group.

                  The move is part of a project called "Andaman Guard". It aims to convince migrants on islands along the route from Myanmar to Thailand not to go ashore - by providing them food, medicine and fuel so they can continue to a third country.

                  Ranong police captured 299 Rohingya - including 23 women and 13 children - in two round-ups this month, deputy provincial chief Pol Colonel Kritsak Sungmulnak said.

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                  • #24
                    Thailand was dropped to the lowest level on the US State Department's Trafficking in Persons register earlier this year and is likely to remain on Tier 3 until it shows serious intent to deal with the issue.
                    That's as it maybe but why does Thailand have an obligation towards the Rohingya. Naively I will assume that if they are clean living, hard working, tax paying individuals they would be welcome anywhere. If they stick strictly to Islamic faith and values then Aceh should welcome them. But as always economics comes into play. If there are insufficient jobs and housing for the Acehanise then they don't want thousands of migrants. If the Rohingya wanted to settle in Buddhist Burma then they should have adopted Buddhism, as Burma at that time did not obviously have freedom of religion.

                    There must be something wrong as even Islamic Bangladesh doesn't want them. What needs to be addressed is the root case. Politically unpleasant as it maybe.

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                    • #25
                      Don't need a real good reason to hate a race, a faith religion football team fan, mods and rockers, Us Western sort have been very good at that. Everyone is a threat.

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                      • #26
                        A muslim perspective. The issue of statelessness is all too familiar to Muslims who have for generations witnessed the suffering of Palestinians under Israeli occupation. Yet, in some ways, the Rohingya do not even enjoy the modicum of civil rights afforded to the Palestinians. Since the approximately 800,000 Rohingya living in Myanmar are denied citizenship status by the military government, their land is routinely confiscated, their children are denied any education beyond what they internally receive within the community, adults are denied the opportunity to look for work outside their village, and they can't even marry without getting authorization to do so. As David Camroux, a top commentator on Islam in Asia, succinctly put it:

                        Whole article here: http://muslimmatters.org/2012/07/27/...he-rohingya-2/

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by Voɔɒlnɘɒl View Post
                          That's as it maybe but why does Thailand have an obligation towards the Rohingya. Naively I will assume that if they are clean living, hard working, tax paying individuals they would be welcome anywhere. If they stick strictly to Islamic faith and values then Aceh should welcome them. But as always economics comes into play. If there are insufficient jobs and housing for the Acehanise then they don't want thousands of migrants. If the Rohingya wanted to settle in Buddhist Burma then they should have adopted Buddhism, as Burma at that time did not obviously have freedom of religion.

                          There must be something wrong as even Islamic Bangladesh doesn't want them. What needs to be addressed is the root case. Politically unpleasant as it maybe.
                          The Rohingya are refugees, both political and social . . . and nowhere does religion come into it, therefore your point about ' If they stick strictly to Islamic faith and values then Aceh should welcome them' isn't valid, nor is 'If the Rohingya wanted to settle in Buddhist Burma then they should have adopted Buddhism' as the area where the Rohyngia reside in Myanmar is on the border with Bangla Desh.

                          This argument on your part would mean that Australia/Germany, the US, France, NZ etc... should only accept refugees if they convert to Christianity.

                          ' if they are clean living, hard working, tax paying individuals they would be welcome anywhere' . . . they are refugees, not migrants. There is a massive difference.

                          You are absolutely right, of course, in that the root cause needs to be addressed - in this case that would be the discriminatory practices of the Burmese government (and the much lauded Aung San Suu Kyi has done sweet FA to help them).

                          Another point, though, is that if they arrive by sea then there are a whole slew of agreements and conventions that Thailand should/must accept them, take them in and treat them humanely, irrespective of whether they are Buddhist, Muslim, Christian, Hindu etc...

                          Here are a few:

                          and

                          Australia is battling the law as it stands on the grounds that human trafficking is exempt from these conventions . . . with little success.

                          So, yes. Thailand does have an obligation to shelter and feed refugees.

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                          • #28
                            Thailand urged not to deport Myanmar boatpeople
                            November 11, 2014

                            BANGKOK (AFP) - The United Nations said Tuesday it had urged Thai authorities against deporting more than 200 Muslim boatpeople from Myanmar being held in southern Thailand after they were intercepted en route to Malaysia.

                            Thai police arrested 259 people on an island off the southern province of Ranong Saturday, days after activists reported a surge in the number of stateless Rohingya
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                            • #29
                              Trafficking Rebellion Grows: Bangkok Sends Investigators to Probe Thailand's Trade in Boatpeople
                              Chutima Sidasathian in Kaper and Alan Morison on Phuket
                              Tuesday, November 11, 2014


                              A man in Kaper with a neckband indicating he'd been sold to a ''broker''

                              KAPER: Checkpoints have been set up by anti-human trafficking officials on the main road towards Phuket to ensure hundreds of boatpeople, arrested at the weekend, are not suddenly trucked south to Thailand's notorious secret border jungle camps.

                              The checkpoints, manned by staff of the district chief of Takuapa, represent the new mood of resistance by some residents along the Andaman Sea to the inhumane trade in people that has flourished down Thailand's western coast over the past five years.

                              These people want to end the brutality, the rapes and the deaths that have been occurring in hidden camps along the Thai-Malaysia border, destroying the lives of Rohingya and with them, Thailand's reputation.

                              Later today, officials from the Department of Special Investigation and the Army's Internal Security Operations Command from Bangkok will begin a probe into whether human trafficking is flourishing along Thailand's Andaman coast, especially in the provinces of Ranong and Phang Nga.

                              Activists and officials from Phang Nga say that some of the seven men arrested with the latest 256 boatpeople in Ranong were previously arrested just days ago in Phang Nga and charged with trafficking 134 Rohingya and Bangladeshi boatpeople.

                              How these men came to be free and working with another load of boatpeople so soon will be among the questions being asked by the senior DSI and ISOC investigators due to arrive on Tuesday from the capital.

                              That the issue is finally being investigated is a measure of the scale of the people's uprising taking place against covert human trafficking in Thailand.

                              Led by Takuapa district chief Manit Pleantong, the Christian, Buddhist and Muslim activists are railing against the way that boatpeople are quickly processed by local police as ''illegal migrants,'' feeding the trade in people that has brought Thailand's reputation into disrepute.

                              The anti-traffickers from the province of Phang Nga have moved north into the neighboring province of Ranong, where others are now coming to realise that perhaps the activists and volunteers have a point.

                              The 256 men, women and children apprehended at the weekend are still in the community hall at the township of Kaper, where they were processed with speed at the weekend and declared to be ''illegal migrants.''

                              There was talk of putting them all back to sea immediately, even though some of the women appeared exhausted and too sick to travel, especially into the storm gripping the coast at the time.

                              Now it seems that authorities in Bangkok are reacting.

                              It's not possible to say conclusively without thorough questioning whether the latest boatload of men, women and children to arrive in Thailand are trafficking victims.

                              But without a sensible policy in place, it's plain that boatpeople have been traded along the coast for some years, in growing numbers, to the benefit of traffickers.

                              Halting the horrific trade requires Thailand to implement a policy and provide a budget that removes the traffickers from the process.

                              A Phuketwan reporter came through a checkpoint, set up in Kuraburi, not far from Takuapa, late last night.

                              A torch was shone into the vehicle and the driver was asked to declare how many people he was carrying as passengers.

                              Over the past five years, not very many torches have been shone into vehicles at checkpoints on the roads south and north.

                              Few questions have been asked as newly-arrived boatpeople have been trucked directly to the horror of the secret southern camps, or north to the Thai-Burma border to be ''deported'' to traffickers so they could try to reach sanctuary in Malaysia by sea all over again.

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                              • #30
                                Surely this will settle it all . . . A for effort

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