Injured and dead migrant workers dumped in Thai rubber plantation after accident

[Jonathan Fairfield]

 

Police, local officials and rescue workers rushed to a rubber plantation, in Na Bo Kham sub-district of Thailand’s Kamphaeng Phet province this morning (Saturday), after they were alerted by villagers to the presence of about 20 migrant workers from Myanmar, including some dead and injured.

 

The authorities found three dead, including two women and a man, and four injured. None of them were in possession of proper immigration documents.

 

One of the migrant workers, called “See”, told the Thai officials that there were 23 of them and each had paid 7,000-23,000 baht to a human trafficking gang to bring them from Myanmar into Thailand through Mae Sot district of Tak province.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/injured-and-dead-migrant-workers-dumped-in-thai-rubber-plantation-after-accident/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2021-11-07

 

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[jacko45k]

Horrific..... but lacking in details.

[ExpatOilWorker]

Should include this important part in the summary. 

 

He said they were packed into a pickup truck and, as they were travelling downhill on Friday night, the truck overturned, throwing all of them out of the vehicle.

[ikke1959]

Is this the Buddhism of Thailand??? Stray dogs are treated better........inhumane and the Government must find out who is responsible, but as usual.... probably the traffickers has hig ranked friends and nothing will happen

[mikebell]

This story should be emblazoned across all newspapers in countries where tourism in Thailand is a possibility: THEN something might get done.

[mtls2005]

One way to maintain that unblemished work-site safety record posted at the entrance.

 

On the plus side, they don't get tossed into the just-poured concrete.

 

 

[steven100]

Thai Buddhism such a loving religion  

[ThailandRyan]

Such a travesty. Many enter Thailand this way because of the need for work. They save and borrow from family who have little to get here and then this happens.  The Thai government does nothing to protect migrants either.

[KhunLA]

4 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Such a travesty. Many enter Thailand this way because of the need for work. They save and borrow from family who have little to get here and then this happens.  The Thai government does nothing to protect migrants either.

Yea, they do, try entering legally.  It's a lot safer.

[Tropicalevo]

39 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

The rest were trying to find better choices in life due to the strife and violence in Myanmar.

This is the bit that Thailand ignores.

They are refugees.

They know that Thailand will just send them back so they have no choice but to escape from Burma illegally. (Earning a few bob helps as there is no financial cushion in Thailand.)

 

Shame on you Prayut.

 

[pkrv]

50 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

Maybe next time, they won't enter the country illegally.

 

Better choices in life for better results.

Such compassion for these unfortunate people.

Are you so sure your government heroes will be rushing to your aid if you're lying mangled by the road? Perhaps you should get them your brown envelope now just to be sure.

[Tropicalevo]

42 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

If the government would make it easier to enter the country and provide the documents freely instead of charging big money to do so more would come legally to work. 

The solution to the ones entering illegally is simple.

At the moment, they arrest them. Check them for Covid. Incarcerate them and then send them back.

Of all of the recent migrants, NONE have had Covid.

So, register them. Give them temporary papers and let them work in a controlled environment.

After a probation period, make their papers more permanent.

[KhunLA]

20 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

How very humane of you. Blame the dead and injured not the bosses that employ them illegally, not the police and immigration officers that take bribes. Good on you. 

They knew they were doing something illegal, that always comes with risks.  There is nobody to blame but themselves.

 

Is there anyone who doesn't know the dangers of partaking in human trafficking / illegal immigration.

You make your choices in life, you live with them.

 

Is nothing to do with my compassion.  All the boo hoo'ers,  are you happy your country has immigration laws, and get mad when people ignore them.  Same same, not different.

[KhunLA]

13 minutes ago, Tropicalevo said:

The solution to the ones entering illegally is simple.

At the moment, they arrest them. Check them for Covid. Incarcerate them and then send them back.

Of all of the recent migrants, NONE have had Covid.

So, register them. Give them temporary papers and let them work in a controlled environment.

After a probation period, make their papers more permanent.

And that's why Thais are stuck with < 350 baht a day salary.  Illegal immigrants will do it for 100 or 200 a day.

[KhunLA]

17 minutes ago, pkrv said:

Are you so sure your government heroes will be rushing to your aid if you're lying mangled by the road? 

No, I'm a realist, probably over tax / charge the wife for scooping me up.  I have no faith, and don't depend on the gov't for anything, or anyone for that matter.

 

Gov'ts aren't there to take care of you (unless circumstances dictate), that you're job.  Gov't are there to protect you, and why there are immigration laws.  Also to protect the immigrants.  Ignore them...

... well sh!t happens, unfortunately.

[Bkk Brian]

2 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

They knew they were doing something illegal, that always comes with risks.  There is nobody to blame but themselves.

 

Is there anyone who doesn't know the dangers of partaking in human trafficking / illegal immigration.

You make your choices in life, you live with them.

 

Is nothing to do with my compassion.  All the boo hoo'ers,  are you happy your country has immigration laws, and get mad when people ignore them.  Same same, not different.

Those other countries tend not to dump 3 dead bodies in a rice plantation along with the injured and the rest of the group then wait for villagers to find them at dawn, call the police and the ambulance arrived. 

 

Yes you have zero compassion and are an example of exactly what is wrong with the system in Thailand

[BangkokReady]

1 hour ago, KhunLA said:

Better choices in life for better results.

I think you're drastically overestimating the choices available to these people.

[pkrv]

10 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

And that's why Thais are stuck with < 350 baht a day salary.  Illegal immigrants will do it for 100 or 200 a day.

Encouraged, facilitated and paid for by your oh-so-legally-compliant government and businesses who manage this solely to line their own pockets at the expense and lives of people who are desperate.

 

I stick with my compassion and boohoo-ness than your evidently empty soul.

Edited November 7, 2021 by pkrv

[KhunLA]

10 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

You're experience is not one of a Myanmar national trying to find positive changes in life due to the turmoil, violence and state sanctioned murders where they come from though is it. Your lack of empathy is astounding.

I've had my share of 'down & out' times.  Could easily went the illegal route, but weighed the risk.   There plenty in Myanmar got dealt the same hand or worst, and excel without putting themselves at risk.

 

That's world wide.  Only difference is people work for it, instead of wallowing in their despair.  I'm sure there's plenty of middle class in Myanmar, that started out dirt poor.  Again, that's worldwide.

 

Somehow they are smart enough, and raise money to do something illegal, but can't manage to use that same initiative to do something legally productive at home.  Does make you wonder.  Crossing over to Thailand, is no small feat.

Edited November 7, 2021 by KhunLA

[djayz]

It's a sad day for humanity when we treat humans like this - irrespective of the country or nationality. 

 

[Gottfrid]

1 hour ago, KhunLA said:

s nothing to do with my compassion.  All the boo hoo'ers,  are you happy your country has immigration laws, and get mad when people ignore them.  Same same, not different.

Yes, it´s very different, but that seems to be something that is totally impossible for you to comprehend. Even if a country have immigration laws, most normal people feel compassion for unfortunate ones that gets in the grip of evil human trackers that do not care for human life.

Is that something you might be able to understand? If not, don´t bother!

[Moonlover]

1 hour ago, KhunLA said:

They knew they were doing something illegal, that always comes with risks.  There is nobody to blame but themselves.

 

Is there anyone who doesn't know the dangers of partaking in human trafficking / illegal immigration.

You make your choices in life, you live with them.

 

Is nothing to do with my compassion.  All the boo hoo'ers,  are you happy your country has immigration laws, and get mad when people ignore them.  Same same, not different.

I rather feel that you are passing the buck from the guilty ones onto the victims. Most people wishing to go to a foreign country would prefer to do so legally. And that is where the deceit starts.

 

The recruiters make grandiose promises of visas, legal entry and legitimate employment. The victims are, of course, required to pay up front for the recruiters services and it's not until they are taken to the border that they realize they have been duped.

 

They cannot now turn back, or they would loose their money, or worse. These unfortunate souls are the victims of a disgusting illegal trade, not the perpetrators.

 

Edited November 7, 2021 by Moonlover

[KhunLA]

I feel compassion when people die, get injured, get dealt a bad hand.  Yes, it sucks they died, but there are better ways.  They paid money ... so they weren't that down & out.   The ones walking across the border, not using traffickers, I have more compassion for.

 

They made choices, obviously this time, it turned out bad.  This is one of the reason why the laws are there.  To protect people from themselves, not just the legal workers who get paid less.

 

Illegal immigration / human trafficking is high risk ... does anyone not know that ???

 

That uncommon common sense.

[KhunLA]

12 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

not until they are taken to the border that they realize they have been duped.

 

 

 

In today's day & age of information, nobody is duped.  Sorry, not buying.

 

Poor choice is more like it.

 

The only thing that went wrong is, they got in an accident.  Or they'd just be more immigrants, keeping the wages low in Thailand.

 

When news spreads back home of what happen, maybe that will deter others from the same, doubtful.

 

Why do people try to justify, illegal immigration, OUTSIDE of their home country, when they are opposed to illegal immigration in the home country.

Edited November 7, 2021 by KhunLA

[Rimmer]

Some inflammatory/troll posts and replies have been removed

[Moonlover]

1 minute ago, KhunLA said:

In today's day & age of information, nobody is duped.  Sorry, not buying.

 

Poor choice is more like it.

Yer sure. Every poor and destitute labourer in Myanmar has a laptop or a smartphone and can instantly read the many reports, (in a western language of course) about the horrors of human trafficking and the deceit that is used.

 

I should also tell you that the money that is used is often scrapped together by their desperate families in the hope of getting at least one bread winner to feed the rest. It's a nasty business that's been going on for a very long time and in many countries.

 

You're living in an ivory tower.

[KhunLA]

3 hours ago, mikebell said:

This story should be emblazoned across all newspapers in countries where tourism in Thailand is a possibility: THEN something might get done.

And yet, you are in Thailand, supporting how many Military Junta administrations with your VAT.

 

A bit hypocritical expecting only the tourist to boycott Thailand on morality.

 

PEACE OUT

Edited November 7, 2021 by KhunLA

[RafPinto]

1 hour ago, KhunLA said:

No, I'm a realist, probably over tax / charge the wife for scooping me up.  I have no faith, and don't depend on the gov't for anything, or anyone for that matter.

 

Gov'ts aren't there to take care of you (unless circumstances dictate), that you're job.  Gov't are there to protect you, and why there are immigration laws.  Also to protect the immigrants.  Ignore them...

... well sh!t happens, unfortunately.

Take a deep breath!

 

We speak about human beings. 

That's a tragedy.

 

You probably never felt hungry or desperate.

I feel for them. They see no other choice than looking to find work somewhere else to feed their families.

[4MyEgo]

2 hours ago, KhunLA said:

Is nothing to do with my compassion.

Have you not been told that the world is not black and white, there is the grey in between, that is the compassionate part which you DO lack IMO.

[pegman]

3 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Such a travesty. Many enter Thailand this way because of the need for work. They save and borrow from family who have little to get here and then this happens.  The Thai government does nothing to protect migrants either.

Yes, it's a tragic occurrence. The type of thing you only usually read about happening around the USA southern border.