The U.S. State Department will soon release its annual Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP) for 2015, but a Thai official said Tuesday that Thailand wasn’t expecting a promotion from the bottommost Tier 3 rank, despite its recent crackdown on people-smuggling.

“We don’t expect to be lifted off Tier 3 because when we cracked down on trafficking, the U.S. had almost completed compilation of its report,” Panithan Wattanayakorn, an advisor to the Thai Ministry of Defense, told BenarNews.

“The prime minister and the deputy prime minister said we would try to do our best under limited time. We tackle the issue by restructuring the way we handle trafficking issue. We placed this issue as a high priority,” he added.

The TIP gauges how each country performs in a given year in combating human trafficking on its territory. The annual report covers the period from April 1 to March 31 of the following year.

Thailand launched a crackdown on human trafficking in early May, after Thai authorities discovered the bodies of 32 suspected illegal migrants at abandoned people-smuggling camps in Padang Besar, a sub-district in southern Songkhla province.

For full story with pix see: http://www.benarnews.org/english/news/thai/tip-report-06232015165148.html

Actually, a little surprized, I thought Thailand was doing better in this area..thanks for the post.

What about the Malaysians?

Why are they so pessimistic I wonder, because the BIB have it all sorted out already according to the TV Thailand News Forum.

Maybe they need more faith in their own bull...t!

" Thailand's crackdown on people smuggling and trafficking networks has successfully dismantled the grim trade, police announced Tuesday while admitting that dozens of suspects have yet to be apprehended."