Thai officials prosecuted for human trafficking

[Time Traveller]

So what about the farang with the newspaper being charged with defaming the navy?

Case dismissed?

Not likely. Even if what they said is true they can still be charged with defamation and convicted in Thailand.

Welcome to the police state, where everything is a crime.

[Donnie Brasco]

Human trafficking and de facto slavery will be with us for a long time to come, I'm afraid.

From the hard-core fishing boat slavery to the soft-core work teams in "team jackets" in the boarding areas, the ignorant and the desparate are currency for this most despicable of crimes.

Why the hell should a Thai peasant farm labourer have to pay a commission to ANYBODY to work abroad ?

BTW, incidents of this banal, non-sensational trafficking (for labour) far and away outnumber incidents of traficking for sexual purposes. Way WAY more poor souls are enslaved than are "turned out."

And way WAY more money and lives are lost in the buying and selling of industrial, construction and agricultural slaves than with kids sold into sex bondage.

But it's the sex stuff that makes the papers and the media and keeps everybody's eyes off the ideological elephant in the room, n'est-ce pas ?

Can't be talkin' about 'dat elephant, now can we ;-?

[Donnie Brasco]

Amazing what an International slap round the head and pocket does for motivation.

Names and more details please.

At least this is a start. It would never have happened 3 years ago. So maybe things are changing for the better?

Your are damn naive... .. First I may remind you that the media is totally controlled by the Junta. It is not possible to questions them... and all news to be brocasted is first filtered and approved by the good guys... it is obvious what kind of news is release!!!! The same is happening in Venezuela, a beautiful country ruled by militaries... so they release these kind of news for just 'image". This is a typical behavior!!

However, You cannot hide a lit-candle inside a dark room.... Tough times ahead !!!!

Sure it's controlled by the oligarchs.

Please, just for discussion's sake (of course) identify a jurisdiction anywhere on the planet that does NOT have its own little measures in place to control what people are allowed to think.

From dissident media people not being welcome on the campaign bus or the press conference or not being leaked to, to journo's simply being dragged off, tortured for their sources and executed the information we get is monitored.

There ARE no exceptions to this.

NONE

[maidee]

isn't there some navy dude that try to take a journalist to court because he dare to speak about human trafficking?

is that the same ?

[rickirs]

"a naval officer"

Otherwise known as a "sacraficial lamb."

Edited January 31, 2015 by rickirs

[rickirs]

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isn't there some navy dude that try to take a journalist to court because he dare to speak about human trafficking?

is that the same ?

Before the military coup the Royal Thia Navy brought a defamation lawsuit against two Thai reporters for Reuters as well as threatening Reuters itself with a lawsuit. Since the coup there has been no further litigation.

[ratcatcher]

trafficking bar girls needs to be number one priority as there are thousands, but obviously very difficult to detect for the RTP.

Where are these bar girls being trafficked from and to where? Are these the BGs that gravitate towards Bangkok and Pattaya's entertainment venues?

Or are you talking about underage Burmese, Lao & Cambodian girls being trafficked by Thais to Thai brothels for Thais?

[German Viking]

So the Reuters article accusing RTN as being involved in human trafficking and then having a law suit against them for the article is now going to be dropped? along with the two people in Phuket that re-published the Reuters story?

A few token selected offerings to appease the world as a show, look see we are doing something about it

How about some real investigative journalism and have a look for yourselves and not just accept the offerings thrown to you, Apply your trade and you might just get some respect.

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

This phrase used a writer in the biography she wrote to describe the character of 1 of the greatest man(poet,philisopher etc.) ever lived.

He often risked his life for the freedom to publish his mind, he was put in prison and several times banned from his country, but he never stopped.

Where are brave ppl like him, we are on the way back in the dark middle age and I don't mean explicit thailand in general.

[German Viking]

Human trafficking and de facto slavery will be with us for a long time to come, I'm afraid.

From the hard-core fishing boat slavery to the soft-core work teams in "team jackets" in the boarding areas, the ignorant and the desparate are currency for this most despicable of crimes.

Why the hell should a Thai peasant farm labourer have to pay a commission to ANYBODY to work abroad ?

BTW, incidents of this banal, non-sensational trafficking (for labour) far and away outnumber incidents of traficking for sexual purposes. Way WAY more poor souls are enslaved than are "turned out."

And way WAY more money and lives are lost in the buying and selling of industrial, construction and agricultural slaves than with kids sold into sex bondage.

But it's the sex stuff that makes the papers and the media and keeps everybody's eyes off the ideological elephant in the room, n'est-ce pas ?

Can't be talkin' about 'dat elephant, now can we ;-?

I agree with you, anyway it is not allowed to use foreign language in TV is'nt it (n'est-ce pas)?

Sorry mate no offence, I tried only how it is to use censorship.

IMO a good way to loosing face.

[Rorri]

lovetotravel, on 30 Jan 2015 - 21:39, said:lovetotravel, on 30 Jan 2015 - 21:39, said:

englishoak, on 30 Jan 2015 - 21:07, said:englishoak, on 30 Jan 2015 - 21:07, said:

Amazing what an International slap round the head and pocket does for motivation.

Names and more details please.

At least this is a start. It would never have happened 3 years ago. So maybe things are changing for the better?

Mmmm... has it really happened, no names, no media coverage, no finger pointing photos, all we have is a timely story... Let's see a few names, convictions AND jail time.

Edited January 31, 2015 by Rorri

[26vinny]

there will be rtp reshuffle send to another post and oh yeah naval officer send to another post dont get caught doing it again

[MisterStretch]

The Rohynga portion of the story is complete speculation on the part of the writer or publication.

Human trafficking...selling humans, is what we are talking about.

Shunting Rohynga boats back in the water or ellegally tossing them over the southern border to Malaysia isn't human trafficking...it's poor treatment of a race ehtnicity and immoral, but it's not human traficking.

[German Viking]

there will be rtp reshuffle send to another post and oh yeah naval officer send to another post dont get caught doing it again

I case Thailand had real proper posts like Svalbard, Siberia or so, this could also be a real punishment.