Thai Officials probe origins of 200 illegal Muslims

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ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
Officials probe origins of 200 illegal Muslims
Phuchis Pirunla-ong
The Nation



BANGKOK: -- MORE THAN 200 illegal Muslim migrants arrested in Songkhla earlier this month have their ethnic roots in Anatolia - the Asian region of Turkey - but it will take some more time to identify their exact nationality, Immigration Division 6 commander Thatchai Pitaneelaboot said yesterday.

These migrants, whose exact origin remains unclear, have claimed they are Turkish. However, it is also widely speculated they might be Uighurs from China's Xinjiang.

Arrested in Rattaphum district on March 12 were 218 illegal migrants, including children and women.

Arrested in Sadao district on March 20 were 77 illegal migrants, again including children and women.

"Clearly, they have come here as families. They have apparently planned to settle down somewhere else," Thatchai said.

He said the Turkish Embassy was being asked to help verify the nationality of the migrants. "If their nationality is proven, we will send them back to their homeland. But if they refuse, we will ask the United Nations High Commis-sioner for Refugees to take care of them," Thatchai said.

Thatchai said police have been cracking down on human-trafficking gangs. For example, a man from Satun province was arrested on March 10 on human-trafficking charges.

"Lately, we have also sought arrest warrants for two Songkhla men on the same charges," he said.


-- The Nation 2014-03-26

[Thai at Heart]

Huh?,,they got here from Turkey?

They are so desperately trying to distance themselves from the.plane story and problems in Xinjiang.

[canuckamuck]

Illegal Muslims...

Do they need to have a license these days? Good thing they didn't say that on Top Gear.

[geriatrickid]

I was unaware that there were legal and illegal versions of muslims.

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[Naam]

These migrants, whose exact origin remains unclear, have claimed they are Turkish. However, it is also widely speculated they might be Uighurs from China's Xinjiang.

Nation journalism at its best

[noitom]

Thais are still asking the Turks for assistance. Turks probably want no part of a Thai saga on human trafficking in the muslim Thai south virtually in a state of terror and insurgency for over ten years with 6,000 dead and tens of thousands injured and maimed.

[Naam]

Thais are still asking the Turks for assistance. Turks probably want no part of a Thai saga on human trafficking in the muslim Thai south virtually in a state of terror and insurgency for over ten years with 6,000 dead and tens of thousands injured and maimed.

if Thais ask they ask in vain. these people are Uighurs, i.e. Chinese citizens who speak a language that belongs to the "turkic" (not turkish!) language family. their language as well as their ethnicity has to do as much with Turkish and Turkey as the language and ethnicity of Papua New Guinea headhunters has to do with those of the Innuit (Eskimos) in Greenland.

have their ethnic roots in Anatolia - the Asian region of Turkey

unbelievable!

[Thaiready]

Thais are still asking the Turks for assistance. Turks probably want no part of a Thai saga on human trafficking in the muslim Thai south virtually in a state of terror and insurgency for over ten years with 6,000 dead and tens of thousands injured and maimed.

All from the so-called Religion of Peace.....

[John1012]

Is there such a thing as a LEGAL Muslim?

[socksy01]

Two current vacancies available in Pattaya for ice-cream vendors if they are Turks.

[Publicus]

Thais are still asking the Turks for assistance. Turks probably want no part of a Thai saga on human trafficking in the muslim Thai south virtually in a state of terror and insurgency for over ten years with 6,000 dead and tens of thousands injured and maimed.

if Thais ask they ask in vain. these people are Uighurs, i.e. Chinese citizens who speak a language that belongs to the "turkic" (not turkish!) language family. their language as well as their ethnicity has to do as much with Turkish and Turkey as the language and ethnicity of Papua New Guinea headhunters has to do with those of the Innuit (Eskimos) in Greenland.

have their ethnic roots in Anatolia - the Asian region of Turkey

unbelievable!

Turkey has offered to receive the refugees being detained by the government in Thailand while Beijing wants its colonized people returned to Xinjiang. If Turkey can stiff arm the Boyz in Beijing so can Thailand. At the least, the Thai government should release the refugees from Beijing's enforced colonial occupation of the former East Turkistan Islamic Republic, which Beijing renamed Xinjiang after the PLA rolled in to it in 1949.

The occupied Xinjiang region is swarming with the People's Armed Police which have armed officers on street corners and at government buildings. The PAP investigate you, harass you, drag you off at all hours. The Han have moved in and taken away the wealth and prosperity of the Uighurs and repress their religion, culture, roots, language, history, independence, free will.

The Uighurs maintain their generational ties and connections with Turkey. Turkey PM Erdogan visited Xinjiang in 2012 with then CCP-PRC Pres Hu Jintao when Beijing and Ankara were honeymooners. However, as indicated by Erdogan's declared willingness to receive the refugees stuck in Thailand, which is in direct defiance of Beijing, relations between Beijing and Ankara aren't what they just recently used to be.

Under no circumstances should Thailand return the refugees to the systematic oppression and repression they face in their occupied homeland that Beijing calls Xin Jiang (new frontier).

A flood of love in Urumqi: Erdoğan visits Xinjiang

by The China Watch on April 10, 2012

Prime Minister Erdoğan was showered with a love in from Uygur Turks who were seeing a Prime Minister from the Republic of Turkey in Urumqi for the first time ever. Erdoğan delivered three significant messages in Xingjian and stated, “I entrust my kin to you."

http://www.thechinawatch.com/2012/04/a-flood-of-love-in-urumqi-erdogan-visits-xinjiang/

Edited March 28, 2014 by Publicus