Two more Rohingyas dead in Nakhon Si Thammarat

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Two more Rohingyas dead in Nakhon Si Thammarat
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NAKHON SI THAMMARAT, Jan 13 -- Police are looking into a human trafficking cartel sending Rohingya migrants through Thailand to Malaysia as two more Rohingyas died in Nakhon Si Thammarat province last night.

Police from Hua Sai station in Nakhon Si Thammarat and social development and human security officials are collecting the profiles of nearly 100 Rohingyas rounded up on Sunday and are providing them with accommodations.

Interpreters from an association of Rohingya people in Thailand are assisting in the task.

Police said they have found that the migrants paid traffickers for their trip to Malaysia where their family members had already arrived.

The death toll among the latest lot of 98 Rohingyas found in Nakhon Si Thammarat rose to three as two persons died last night, one at hospital due to diarrhea and the other died of a blood infection ohe way to hospital.

Sawat Phadungchart and Sutthipong Chuaipat, arrested for driving vehicles carrying the Rohingyas here on Sunday were initially charged with human trafficking.

Police are trying to find the head of the network, a cartel transportingd 400 Rohingyas per trip. While 98 of them were arrested in Hua Sai district on Sunday, the rest reached Sadao district of Songkhla. (MCOT online news)


-- TNA 2015-01-13

[Costas2008]

"Police are trying to find the head of the network"

You don't have far to go......look for high Police or Army officers and you are there..................

[scorecard]

This has been going on for many years, why am I thinking they aren't looking too hard for the trafficking ring leaders?

On a wider note, IMHO this is one of the monumental and disgraceful failures of the UN in terms of pushing the world towards being civil and gaining equality for all people at least on basic level where every person on this earth is recognized as a citizen of earth with recognized papers.

Even a situation whereby stateless people had a special UN passport or something similar would be better than what exists now. But the UN have made no progress on this at all, what a disgrace.

Edited January 13, 2015 by scorecard

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Human traffickers change route to smuggle Rohingha migrants to Malaysia



NAKHON SI THAMMARAT: -- Human trafficking rings have changed their routes from Andaman coastal provinces to provinces along the west coast to smuggle Rohingya migrants to Thailand to avoid strict suppression there, according to Nakhon Si Thammarat provincial police.

The disclosure of the southern police came after Hua Sai district police arrested 98 Rohinya migrants in five pickup trucks on the road from Phang Nga to Songkhla on Sunday.

One woman died after being crushed to death while being transported in one if the five crammed pickup trucks.

The 98 Rohingya migrants were believed to have been smuggled into the country by a human-trafficking ring.

Hua Sai police station officer Capt Somporn Thongcheen said the woman most likely suffocated and the others appeared exhausted.

Hua Sai police set up the checkpoint on the Nakhon Si Thammarat- Songkhla r road after obtaining information that a number of illegal migrants would pass through the district on their way to Songkhla.

About 4am Sunday, a convoy of vehicles was spotted heading towards the checkpoint.

Officers were able to stop five of the vehicles, but the rest escaped.

The drivers of three vehicles fled the scene and the other two were arrested.

The migrants found in the five vehicles were later taken to Hua Sai police station.

They were then taken in small groups to Hua Sai Hospital for treatment. All had been travelling without food for two days, police said.

The two drivers said they had picked the Rohingya up from a coastal area of Phangnga and were taking them to Songkhla.

Human trafficking rings have changed their routes from Andaman coastal provinces to provinces along the Gulf of Thailand to avoid strict suppression there, he said.

Meanwhile an official of the Social Development and Human Security Office of Nakhon Si Thammarat said officials were sent to interview each migrant through interpreters to find out if they had been victims of a human-trafficking movement.

If they were victims of human trafficking rings, they will be deported.

Officials said Rohingya have fled their homes in Rakhine state in Burma via Thailand to Malaysia in increasing numbers recently.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/human-traffickers-change-route-smuggle-rohingha-migrants-malaysia


-- Thai PBS 2015-01-13

[SOTIRIOS]

....'trying to find'..........try harder buddies........

[wabothai]

Bureau of investigation knows nothing ?!?! if so, they don't care since they are only Rohingyas.

[Nemesis7]

This has been going on for many years, why am I thinking they aren't looking too hard for the trafficking ring leaders?

On a wider note, IMHO this is one of the monumental and disgraceful failures of the UN in terms of pushing the world towards being civil and gaining equality for all people at least on basic level where every person on this earth is recognized as a citizen of earth with recognized papers.

Even a situation whereby stateless people had a special UN passport or something similar would be better than what exists now. But the UN have made no progress on this at all, what a disgrace.

The UN or UNHCR is busy with seminars and cocktail parties and with posh offices in the most expensive zone and has any one really noticed how these UN people are over paid and how much money is spent on their establishments and for their luxurious life style? It's all aid money mostly.

[Nemesis7]

These refugees should get access to proper healthcare at least

[Nuddy]

Caught them

Someone not paid their dues or is to do with the coup

[Seastallion]

A recent report stated that the Rohingya are trying to get to Malaysia. If that is so, then I doubt very much that they would sail right around the Malay peninsular to get to east coast Thailand.