Death Camps: Police Arrest 12, Seek 56 Others in Trafficking Probe
By Khaosod English


Thai security forces inspect a just-abandoned jungle stockade where human traffickers kept captives under dire conditions in this 5 May file photo.

SONGKHLA — A criminal court today approved arrest warrants for 68 more people accused of links to a human trafficking syndicate in southern Thailand, 12 of which police said are already in custody.

Of this latest batch of suspects to emerge since security forces discovered makeshift stockades used to hold people in horrifying conditions in the jungles bordering Malaysia, 26 stand charged of human trafficking and 42 with money laundering, according to Police Maj.Gen. Paween Pongsirin of the Ninth Region Police today.

“Twelve people have already been arrested,” Paween said today in Songkhla province, where the slave camps were found in May. “They are part of the human trafficking network in Satun and Ranong provinces.”

Today’s announcement brings the total number of suspects announced in the case to 187.

Paween did not identify any of the new suspects by name but added the dozen already in custody would appear at 2:30 pm this afternoon at the anti-trafficking task force’s Songkhla headquarters.

Officials said traffickers used the camps to detain foreign refugees and immigrants until their families could pay ransom money. Investigators discovered mass graves around the camps thought to hold those who did not survive the grim conditions or failed to secure ransom funds and were executed. Numerous media reports have since offered first-person accounts of routine gang rapes, beatings and deaths of captives in the camps.

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-- Khaosod English 2015-08-13

Even Saudi Arabian Embassy could not do anything against Thai corrupt police nexus, they are still finding disappeared diplomat. After all these are homeless, nameless refugees. Even Koh Tao case is sinking with migrant boat case. Only God know how the cases with end finally, and we don't know how long it will take in Thailand to get a small amount of justice. US and EU will not bother about this, except some human right activist raise alarm again.

This wil fa down just like the rest of the cases.But seriously is this is how the Buddhist nation works? amazing Thailand.