No human trafficking in Phuket, says Labour minister

The Phuket News

 

 

PHUKET:-- No migrant worker adults or children who are victims of human trafficking have been found in Phuket’s fishing industry, Labour Minister Gen Sirichai Distakul has declared.

 

Gen Sirichai made the announcement on Sunday (Aug 28), after he and a team of officials conducted an inspection tour of fishing boats operating in Phuket waters last Friday, the Royal Thai Navy reported in a release issued yesterday (Aug 29).

 

Gen Sirichai and his team on Friday visited the Royal Thai Navy Third Area Command at Cape Panwa, where they boarded a Navy boat and conducted random inspections of fishing boats in the area.

 

No irregularities were found, noted the Navy report.

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-- © Copyright Phuket News 2016-08-30

You've gotta laugh or else you'll cry.

What a load of absolute, unadulterated crap but let us all not forget  that he is a General, all of whom demand and order one and all obey and believe.

As much as I think human slavery/ trafficking is an abberation, please oh please let there be one (and only one) poor unfortunate soul who exists alone in this cruel and inhuman situation and let them be found today

 

For the good Minister needs to be shown to the world as the fool he is.

Boarded one boat, nothing found, no issues.

 

Simple minds always provide simple answers to unresolved issues to avoid their inability to understand a situation. Sometimes on purpose!

40 minutes ago, Reigntax said:

Boarded one boat, nothing found, no issues.

 

Simple minds always provide simple answers to unresolved issues to avoid their inability to understand a situation. Sometimes on purpose!

Simple minds also have difficulties reading. Boats is plural.

He must know, he has looked really really hard ( at the letter from the EU )

Independent unannounced inspection. Then i would believe!

Boy oh boy, I'm so glad to hear this. 

Okay, define "human".

8 minutes ago, clockman said:

Independent unannounced inspection. Then i would believe!

 

There was a 3 years independent investigation by the Environmental Justice Foundation which handed evidence and testimonies from migrant slaves who escaped their boats in November 2015. It was also reported in 2015 that there are about 200,000 migrant workers by an activist group Raks Thai Foundation. It will be quite a stretch of imagination to think that in less than a year, human trafficking was eliminated.  

9 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

 

There was a 3 years independent investigation by the Environmental Justice Foundation which handed evidence and testimonies from migrant slaves who escaped their boats in November 2015. It was also reported in 2015 that there are about 200,000 migrant workers by an activist group Raks Thai Foundation. It will be quite a stretch of imagination to think that in less than a year, human trafficking was eliminated.  

Migrant workers and slaves are not the same.

 

What did that investigation by the Environmental Justice Foundation say about the number of migrant slaves and Phuket boats?

2 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Migrant workers and slaves are not the same.

 

What did that investigation by the Environmental Justice Foundation say about the number of migrant slaves and Phuket boats?

 

You right.

 

The EJF investigation into slavery on Thai fishing boats uncovered a well-oiled system of trafficking. In that report Nestle admitted that slave labors were used in its Thai seafood supply chain.

 

Perhaps I re-phrase by saying that it is still quite a stretch that trafficking can be totally eliminated since the EJF report in late 2015. The Labor Minister did said that human trafficking in Phuket and not the whole industry.    

I wonder if any of the inspected boats were tipped off that an inspection was forthcoming?............................

2 hours ago, stevenl said:

Migrant workers and slaves are not the same.

 

What did that investigation by the Environmental Justice Foundation say about the number of migrant slaves and Phuket boats?

 

"Migrant workers and slaves are not the same."

 

Remember this case?  Of course, it was the subject of a defamation case, to silence the report, and the truth.

 

In this article these people are called, "forced labor."  

 

http://campaign.worldvision.com.au/news-events/pineapple-factory-forced-labour/

 

Migrant workers, slaves, forced labor, people trafficking - not much difference.  They all describe the exploitation of people prepared to do the work that the Thai's will not, and for a lot less money and no workers rights. 

18 hours ago, Chicog said:

You've gotta laugh or else you'll cry.

Make it so Scotty. 

...oh...okay....

 

...as opposed to on boats .....???

 

...hmmm....

 

 

22 hours ago, steelepulse said:

I wonder if any of the inspected boats were tipped off that an inspection was forthcoming?............................

Of course.............Im sure that an 48-hours notice before inspection is an legal requirement  

On 31/08/2016 at 1:17 PM, steelepulse said:

I wonder if any of the inspected boats were tipped off that an inspection was forthcoming?............................

 

I'm sure they were, and no one in the investigation team then asks the obvious question, "Where's all of your crew?"