Cambodia-Thailand cooperation on transnational crime has ‘long way to go’

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Brent Crane

In the wake of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s state visit to Thailand last weekend, the first in 12 years, much media coverage focused on the neighbours’ ambitious economic agreements, apparent goodwill and the political pragmatism implicit in the visit.

But less talked about was the two leaders’ talk on transnational crime, which has long been an issue along the Thai-Cambodian border. Brent Crane spoke with Jeremy Douglas, the regional representative for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime for Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

What are the main forms of transnational crime across the Thailand-Cambodia border?
In purely economic terms, drug trafficking, especially of methamphetamine, would be worth the most, followed by environmental crimes like timber and wildlife trafficking, and then human trafficking.

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Assistance with human trafficking ... sounds like a job for the Thai military's Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC).

It's mid-level officers seem to have been very effective in South Thailand coordinating human trafficking of the Burmese Rohingya migrants.