Human Rights groups calls on Thai government to help Rohingya refugees

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By Thai Enquirer

 

Human rights groups are calling on the Thai government to assist a new group of rescued Rohingya asylum seekers and allow them to determine their refugee status in Thailand.

Last Saturday, the Thai navy found 59 Rohingya refugees stranded on Koh Dong Island near Satun province in southern Thailand. The navy rescued 31 men, 23 women, and 5 children. The group was then detained and are being held at 436 Border Patrol Police unit.

 

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Human Rights Watch said in a statement on Tuesday that Thai officials say they were abandoned by smugglers, who reportedly charged 60,000 Thai baht (US$1,750) per person for a journey to Malaysia.

 

Full story: https://www.thaienquirer.com/40687/human-rights-watch-calls-on-thai-government-to-help-rohingya-refugees/

 

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[ThailandRyan]

Yes, help them and get them to a safe location, or integrated back into society in a decent setting.  Shoving them into a refugee camp and deporting them is not the right thing to do.  These folks have been victimized twice, once by the Myanmar Government, and then the human traffickers they paid to get them to Malaysia,  Charging them with illegal entry and shipping them back to Bangladesh would not be the right thing to do.  But that's my opinion.

[Excel]

The won't do a damn thing to help anybody unless they can see some financial benefit in it. I am not talking about the general population, just the ruling classes and those that think they deserve to be.

[Gottfrid]

1 hour ago, ThailandRyan said:

Yes, help them and get them to a safe location, or integrated back into society in a decent setting.  Shoving them into a refugee camp and deporting them is not the right thing to do.  These folks have been victimized twice, once by the Myanmar Government, and then the human traffickers they paid to get them to Malaysia,  Charging them with illegal entry and shipping them back to Bangladesh would not be the right thing to do.  But that's my opinion.

Nah, I also think it will be wrong. They are much better off, by grating refugee status. That way, they will not run out of poor people to use as culprits for solving all from underwear theft to murders.

[Doctor Tom]

How about telling the Thai government to rip up the very recent agreement with Saudi they have just signed, due to that country's  equally appalling human rights record, the Yemeni war and the atrocities perpetrated in that country by Saudi Arabia? Or are their tourist dollars more important than Myanmar ? Let's not let hypocrisy and selective blindness cloud what's equally important.