Thailand Jurisidiction Burma, Col Saw Chit Thu

https://world.thaipbs.or.th/detail/more-trafficked-foreigners-to-be-sent-from-myanmar-to-thailand/56525

Keep reading from various sources, how Thailand will arrest this Col Saw Chit Thu chap.

Find it difficult to understand how that will play out.

1) He's a Colonel in a breakaway state currently under a civil war.

2) Thailand isn't America i.e it's laws don't apply outside of Thai borders (Territorial).

a) charges include Trafficking/Money Laundering - the underlying activity occurred outside of Thailand, i.e the trafficking occurred world wide but ultimately people went into Burma of their own free will and were then involving themselves in these entities, or were kidnapped... but that occurred in Burma, the money laundering is a secondary act and money laundering is concealment and layering which hasn't occurred in Thailand, the proper charge is fraud and bank fraud. 

Just noise or is Burma subservient to Thailand, i.e is Thailand above China in the pecking order of Asia, as China couldn't stop this.