More Rohinya migrants found in Songkhla

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More Rohinya migrants found in Songkhla

BANGKOK: -- Twenty-six more Rohinya migrants were found Monday in a jungle area adjoining Hat Yai and Rattaphum districts of Songkhla province.

Local authorities said this group of Rohinya was spotted walking in a rubber plantation in Tambon Chalung of Hat Yai.

They were exhausted when villagers alerted authorities who continued to search for the migrants trafficking in by human trafficking gangs under order of the prime minister for all southern governors to check and find if there are still Rohinya migrants hiding in forest areas in the South.

The group, comprising 17 males and nine females, among them six boys and three girls.

After they were provided with food and water, they said they came from Myanmar and intended to go further to Malaysia.

They said they were abandoned in the forest by brokers and had gone astray in the jungle for four days without food and had to eat tamarinds instead.

Authorities sent them to a musjid at Ban Nakuan in Hat Yai to stay temporarily on humanitarian ground before seeking for further international assistance.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/more-rohinya-migrants-found-in-songkhla


-- Thai PBS 2015-05-11

[thesetat2013]

Abandoned 4 days ago by their handlers means they were forewarned. The authorities should be looking into which officials leaked that info to aide in their handlers escape.

[EricBerg]

Let's hope these poor people can isentify those brokers... if anyone is interested to ask.

[Artisi]

This has been going on for years and I would suggest that many are fully aware of who is who in this despicable trafficking of people. The authorities just have to pressurise the right people to all the answers they will ever need to finalise this matter - of course this is assuming that the 'authorities" really want to round up all the mates of mates.

[EricBerg]

Now I just read that thousands of Rohingya and Bangladeshi people are stuck on boats off the Thai coast. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) speaks of about eight thousand people stuck on boats. The trafficers are afraid to bring them to Thailand because of the ongoing crackdown. Will they be able to feed the refugees? Or will they just kick them overboard and make a run for it?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32686328

If only a week of police activity means 8000 people accumulate, then how many more will soon come? That could result in mass murder. The navy should go looking for the smuggler boats in cooperation of the navy of other countries.

[EricBerg]

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Edited May 11, 2015 by EricBerg