In response to post bucholze # 7.

Yes, and under the AV administration they were just towed out to sea and left adrift without fuel, food or water......

As a Naval man you would be aware of the illegality of that, would you not ?

You should also know that forcibly sending asylum seekers and refugees back to their country to be persecuted, is against international law. That is what your precious Yingluck's policy is, as was your hero and criminal at large, Thaksin's.

BTW turning refugee boats away has been the policy of Thailand for 25 years up to and including this day. But I am sure in your mind AV gave a direct order to the navy to this inhuman act.

I think a policy of accepting Muslim refugees in the Thai south would endanger the national security of Thailand.

Too late - already...

Thailand's treatment of refugees has always been, in my opinion, appalling. Successive governments have only cared about appeasing their neighbours to maintain good business relations and keep the money flowing, not giving a dam_n about human rights.

Exactly. Pity that a few PTP supporters had to try to turn it into a blame game, as usual stupidly.

Unfortunately no one wants the Rohingya but they currently face persecution in Burma. Sending them back there is cruel, to say the least. This is a human rights problem, not a Muslim problem. But the Islamophobes can never resist having a dig at any Muslim community.

"They will be treated under the law as illegal immigrants and will be deported,"

Which raises the question of where they will be deported to as Myanmar also regards them as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.

There's now nearly 700 in Songkhla and they will be deported to Myanamar, the same as another group were just last week...

"They are now waiting for deportation which will be done by Thailand's immigration police," Lieutenant Colonel Katika Jitbanjong of Padang Besar local police told the AFP news agency.

Last week, Thailand deported 73 Rohingya boat people back to Myanmar, after they landed on the southern island of Phuket.

http://www.aljazeera...4320327355.html

From 150 of the OP to the above nearly 700, the ever-growing numbers have increased again:

843 Rohingyas, who are now treated as illegal migrants in Thailand,were fleeing from Myanmar to Malaysia in three groups when they were picked up by Thai police.

Thai authorities said the migrants must be returned to the country of their origin.

The Rohingyas have been held in different government agencies waiting to be deported.

Most of the refugees are suffering from malnutrition after being without food for days. They also lack proper clothing and medicine.

http://61.19.244.31/centerweb/newsen/NewsDetail?NT01_NewsID=WNSOC5601150010014

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An anti-Islam post has been deleted.

Exactly. Pity that a few PTP supporters had to try to turn it into a blame game, as usual stupidly.

Unfortunately no one wants the Rohingya but they currently face persecution in Burma. Sending them back there is cruel, to say the least.

The very least....

Speaking from a state-sponsored shelter in Narathiwat, a 10-year-old Rohingya boy said he would be dead if he was deported back to Myanmar's Yakhine State

Rohingya people are a Muslim minority group in Thailand's neighbouring country.

"My parents and all my four older siblings were killed," Nurahazim said. His body was scarred with many knife wounds and beating wounds.