65 Cambodian illegals locked in building for three days
By The Nation

 

SA KAEW: -- Rangers and police rescued 65 Cambodians including children who had been lured by a Cambodian broker and locked in a shophouse for three days at Rong Klua Market in Sa Kaew province.

 

The rangers, Klong Luek police and Sa Kaew immigration police checked the market after they learned from informants that some Cambodians had been smuggled across the border to the market, pending them being smuggled to Bangkok and Samut Prakan province.

 

Authorities noticed a two-unit shophouse with its front door locked and they heard sounds from inside. 

 

Authorities broke into the building and found 37 Cambodian men and 23 Cambodian women as well as five children sitting on the two floors inside the two connected units. They did not have travel documents.

 

The Cambodians appeared tired. 

 

They told authorities they sneaked across the border after paying a Cambodian broker up to Bt2,500 each. 

 

They were told to wait at the shophouse for a vehicle to pick them up and transport them to employers in Bangkok and Samut Prakan.

They said they waited for three days and could not leave because the doors were locked. 

 

They were also told not to leave the shophouse, and face arrested and deported if they did.

 

The 65 illegals were sent to the Sa Kaew’s immigration office, pending deportation.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/breakingnews/30313192

 

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No documents but on thai soil... immigration will be pleased again...

Slave labor does not exist here does it? Does It??? says a lot about the country and even more the employers

I'd like to hear of the same treatment, toward Thais.

Disgusting.

I can't blame the Cambodians for wanting to work in Thailand and have a better lifestyle than at home.

What I find reprehensible is that some people will take these poor peoples money and treat them so poorly.

2,500 baht is a months wages for many in Cambodia and now they are being deported with nothing but bitter memories of betrayal and a better understanding of their neighbours.