Humanitarian organisations fail to help Rohingya migrants

[Thaivisa News]

Bangkok: – National police commissioner General Somyos Pumpanmuang yesterday lashed out at international humanitarian organisations for faulting Thailand and for failing to intervene and help Rohingya migrants.

Somyos said he deemed it unfair that humanitarian organisations kept on criticising the country while they did not provide any assistance to the illegal migrants.

Thai police and their Malaysian counterparts have reached an agreement for joint cooperation to resolve the issue, he said.

Thailand has clearly affirmed the determination to ban human traffickers to use its territory as a transit point to transport Rohingya people to a third country, such as Malaysia, he said.

The authorities will provide assistance for the migrants waiting for resettlement as per the country’s obligations under international agreements, he said.

He said humanitarian organisations should provide tangible assistance to these migrants instead of seeking publicity by bashing Thailand.

The burden to take care of Rohingya people is worrisome because the resettlement would take a long time to process while the number of migrant population would keep on multiplying, he said.

Due to strict measures to ban the trafficking of Rohingya people, the migrant boat landing has stopped in coastal areas from Chumphon to the Malaysian borders.

Police reports indicate the growing number of migrant boatsoff Thailand’s coast as they had left Myanmar and headed for a new destination to land.

The national police commissioner said the Rohingya migration issue could not be compared to the Vietnamese boat people at the end of Vietnam War in the 1970s.

Vietnam eventually accepted the boat people to return to their homeland after failing to seek resettlement, he said, noting that Myanmar does not recognised Rohingya people as her citizens.

[jerojero]

Thai Police (Govt) blaming international charity organizations for Thailand's obvious and miserable internal failings.

[LuckyLew]

Since they recently said that there will soon be a labor shortage, why not take these people and train them to do some sort of job? Instead of looking like less that kind people perhaps Thailand can take the lead and show compassion, would make a nice change for Thailand to get some good press

[DLock]

Good strategy by Thailand.

Instead of admitting that they have dealt in the suffering of the Rohingas people and trafficked them profitably for years, lets blame the International community for not taking action.

That's like blaming Microsoft for not taking action when Thailand gets caught for allowing IP copywrite violations, after they get caught.

...but they have to try something. The world is watching.

[DM07]

These people have no shame at all!

Lashing out at humanitarian organisations for not helping the refugees, while some fat cats in Thailand get fatter and fatter with slave- trading and slave labor!

Stay classy, Thailand!

Especially as we know, how much help and support humanitarian organisations get from every government in Thailand, pointing the finger at human rights problems!

[IMA_FARANG]

Don't fool yourself, the Myanmar authorities that allow this to happen, the Thai and Malaysian authorities who refuse to see what happens right in front of their eyes, and the Indonesian authorities who also seem to be blind to what is happening in their own country are all guilty.

It is a organized international criminal conspiracy by all three of these counties, who only care for the money involved.

They were well taught by their former Western Capitalist teachers..... profits before people.....that is the way of Western Capitalists.

We Asians can do that to just the way you taught us to.

[jonclark]

At least Thailand is consistent.

Whenever something goes wrong blame someone else.

[Kaalle]

These people have no shame at all!

Lashing out at humanitarian organisations for not helping the refugees, while some fat cats in Thailand get fatter and fatter with slave- trading and slave labor!

Stay classy, Thailand!

Especially as we know, how much help and support humanitarian organisations get from every government in Thailand, pointing the finger at human rights problems!

These people are thai, they are not going to allow for a huge loss of face. What do you expect? They will lie and deceive and try to bs their way out of whatever it is.

[harryfrompattaya]

_{Bangladesh refuses to take back its Rohingyas}

_{...I'm still waiting for a headline like this.}

Maybe us should call and annoy the Bangladesh embassy to take back their

trouble makers

I am sick of Bangladesh I am call for a boycott of them

[oneday]

"...The national police commissioner said the Rohingya migration issue could not be compared to the Vietnamese boat people at the end of Vietnam War in the 1970s..."

Ah, so that's a perfectly adequate excuse for you and all other countries to push the boat people away leaving them at sea to die a horrible death of starvation and exposure. Wonderful logic and what wonderful empathy for your fellow human beings.

[harryfrompattaya]

What are the wonderful Chinese's who are number 1 the greatest smartest country in the doing about this

I say this is Asia problem and we Americans and Europeans let them solve their own problems if we were sick they will give us SH&&

So let give them what they will give us

[dominique355]

What about this journalist who got sued by the Thai Navy when he published the scandal about the Rohingyas? If that doesn't silence all those who wanted to make it public and help them. Perhaps the general should first clean his own house.

[weegee]

I can guarantee you this....Vietnam will definitely not want them there, and rightly so. Thats one Asian country who nipped this in the bud a long time ago....

[ExPratt]

Somyos said he deemed it unfair that humanitarian organisations kept on criticising the country while they did not provide any assistance to the illegal migrants

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Edited May 15, 2015 by ExPratt

[ExPratt]

Some of these officials are like children when the get challenged , Thai Authorities were complicit in the use of Slave/Human Trafficker camps on their own Territory. Its the Human rights organisations job to critisize them.

[chainarong]

Some of these officials are like children when the get challenged , Thai Authorities were complicit in the use of Slave/Human Trafficker camps on their own Territory. Its the Human rights organisations job to critisize them.

The word here is challenged Expratt no Asian official or politician likes to be questioned or corrected and neither does Prayuth.

[bendejo]

What are the wonderful Chinese's who are number 1 the greatest smartest country in the doing about this

I say this is Asia problem and we Americans and Europeans let them solve their own problems if we were sick they will give us SH&&

So let give them what they will give us

Hey, don't give the Chinese any ideas! They just might give these people refuge on some of the contested islands, and if/when it comes to a showdown the world will decry the further mistreatment of those poor people by aggressors.

[ExPratt]

Some of these officials are like children when the get challenged , Thai Authorities were complicit in the use of Slave/Human Trafficker camps on their own Territory. Its the Human rights organisations job to critisize them.

The word here is challenged Expratt no Asian official or politician likes to be questioned or corrected and neither does Prayuth.

MH370 exposed a similar problem in Malaysia . The chief of Police was used to a subservient Media usually giving smart ass and aggressive answers to prevent any real questions . He tried it on a CNN woman Journalist at one of the daily press conferences and got slaughtered by her . I honestly thought he was going to start crying. Exposed him for what a bullying, incompetent Buffoon he was

[NeverSure]

Don't fool yourself, the Myanmar authorities that allow this to happen, the Thai and Malaysian authorities who refuse to see what happens right in front of their eyes, and the Indonesian authorities who also seem to be blind to what is happening in their own country are all guilty.

It is a organized international criminal conspiracy by all three of these counties, who only care for the money involved.

They were well taught by their former Western Capitalist teachers..... profits before people.....that is the way of Western Capitalists.

We Asians can do that to just the way you taught us to.

Does "western capitalism" explain how Shanghai became a verb?

[Local Drunk]

"The national police commissioner said the Rohingya migration issue could not be compared to the Vietnamese boat people at the end of Vietnam War in the 1970s."

There is no emoticon existing to express my feelings about this quote.

[Local Drunk]

Don't fool yourself, the Myanmar authorities that allow this to happen, the Thai and Malaysian authorities who refuse to see what happens right in front of their eyes, and the Indonesian authorities who also seem to be blind to what is happening in their own country are all guilty.

It is a organized international criminal conspiracy by all three of these counties, who only care for the money involved.

They were well taught by their former Western Capitalist teachers..... profits before people.....that is the way of Western Capitalists.

We Asians can do that to just the way you taught us to.

Does "western capitalism" explain how Shanghai became a verb?

Clever...

[PBarnfeather]

I cannot disagree with the Thai Government in this case. The Rohingya are not now nor have they ever been a Thai problem. Since the Rohingya are mostly Muslim I'm sure the Government does not want to add to an already existing Muslim problem in the south.

[mike324]

I think people are being quite unrealistic here, in most countries around the world, these illegal aliens are deported back to their home country. For cases such as in Australia where they are eligible to apply for citizenship based on refuge status, these illegals are sent to an island detention center for processing. Needless to say, detention centers are like being in jail and it takes months to process these people. Its the same for the US, illegals are deported back. And depending on which party was in power, Australia also pushed refugees back to see in recent years.

For those who say why not take these illegals in and train and house them and put them into the society, etc etc. Who is going to pay for them? train them? Its a burden on the society. No country wants to take in illegal aliens that come by the boat load.

In Thailands case, these Rohingya people DON'T want to land in Thailand for fear of their safety, as they will be deported back to their home country or traffic to somewhere else. Those journalist that report on these stories only report but most don't do anything, they just sell their stories. I know its low for the government to push blame humanitarian organizations for failure to help. You guys all make it sound like its an easy fix to this problem.

[Thakkar]

The Twelve Values are great. But only in theory, or when they're useful--not when any of the tenets cause inconvenience.

You cannot, on the one hand, preach compassion to your children and on the other, show them callousness in your actions. Children are good learners; they will learn the entire lesson, not just the preached part that you want them to.

This is how the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children. There is no need to believe in karma to understand that callousness today will have consequences tomorrow.

T

[arthurboy]

So here we are.

An organized network of people traffickers, including police, army, the authorities and everyday folk - who have miraculously gone undetected for how long - and now the holier than though government says it's not our responsibility.

Well, given the obvious long term collusion and corruption at play here, whose responsibility is it?

If the authorities are so whiter than white, how was this allowed to happen at all, Police General Somyot?

Pray tell.

[PBarnfeather]

The Rohingya have been a small problem in Myanmar (Burma) for hundreds of years and the problem has grown immensely in the last 50 Years. The Muslim directive to take over a country by "population explosion" doesn't seem to have worked for them. Now they are leaving Myanmar as illegal immigrants (Probably the same way they arrived.)

How can you blame any country for not wanting them?

[BSJ]

The Rohingya have been a small problem in Myanmar (Burma) for hundreds of years and the problem has grown immensely in the last 50 Years. The Muslim directive to take over a country by "population explosion" doesn't seem to have worked for them. Now they are leaving Myanmar as illegal immigrants (Probably the same way they arrived.)

How can you blame any country for not wanting them?

Yes the problem for the Burmese has grown substantially since WW2. These rohingya are a blight on the world. But it's a Burmese problem and it's up to them to solve it.

[dominique355]

I cannot disagree with the Thai Government in this case. The Rohingya are not now nor have they ever been a Thai problem. Since the Rohingya are mostly Muslim I'm sure the Government does not want to add to an already existing Muslim problem in the south.

First and most, they are people and they are kids, mothers, and they need help. Not our problem?

[simon43]

the migrant boat landing has stopped in coastal areas from Chumphon to the Malaysian borders.

Chumpon??

Buy that man an atlas