Special Report: Inside Thailand's trafficking crackdown

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Special Report: Inside Thailand's trafficking crackdown
BY AMY SAWITTA LEFEVRE AND ANDREW R.C. MARSHALL

BANGKOK: -- Sheltering in the backroom of a provincial Thai police station is a 35-year-old street vendor who triggered a human trafficking investigation that has reverberated across Southeast Asia.

He is a Rohingya Muslim, a mostly stateless group from western Myanmar. He had scraped a living for the past decade selling fried bread, or roti, from a push cart in Nakhon Si Thammarat, a city in southern Thailand.

Then his nephew fell into the hands of murderous human traffickers.

The roti seller's desperate bid to save him ultimately led to the discovery of scores of jungle graves on the Thai-Malaysia border in May and sparked a regional crisis over boatloads of unwanted Rohingya.

Full story: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/09/us-thailand-trafficking-specialreport-idUSKCN0PJ14520150709

-- Reuters 2015-07-10

[shaggy851]

In the backroom of a police station isn't exactly the safest place for him when the police know exactly where one of the traffickers live and haven't put those people behind bars. I saw a doco where one of the few who escaped led them to a grave site and shows the graves of his friends and relatives. He dug the graves himself and one of the traffickers houses over look the grave sites.

[Reigntax]

I could think of many safe places and the least safe for this witness would be in police or military custody.

[Jimlove]

I could think of many safe places and the least safe for this witness would be in police or military custody.

Police custody would be the last place to be safe - these uniformed thugs can be bought by anyone with a few baht ...