PM urges authorities to work on combating human trafficking drastically

By Thai PBS Reporters

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-ocha today encouraged authorities to perform their duties on suppression of human trafficking drastically although Thailand remained in Tier 2 on the watch list of the US State Department’s 2017 Trafficking in Persons or Tip report released yesterday.

 

Gen Prayut said his government remained determined to counter human trafficking drastically as it has placed it on its national agenda that all relevant authorities would have to fully cooperate in solving this problem.

 

He said not only law would be amended and regulations issued, but also wrongdoers and government officials involved in human trafficking would be dealt with seriously.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/pm-urges-authorities-work-combating-human-trafficking-drastically/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2017-06-28

Didn't he say that last year when the report came out lifting Thailand from level 3, and again when the the TIP report dropped them down to level 3?

Where is the human trafficking hiding?  Because I've never seen any sign of it in Thailand. What nationalities? Where do they come from and where are they being trafficked to? I remember last week a "Mother who forced underage daughter into sex trade nabbed in Chonburi" it was all over the news. Is that what they are referring to when using the term "human trafficking?" 

1 hour ago, fullcave said:

Where is the human trafficking hiding?  Because I've never seen any sign of it in Thailand. What nationalities? Where do they come from and where are they being trafficked to? I remember last week a "Mother who forced underage daughter into sex trade nabbed in Chonburi" it was all over the news. Is that what they are referring to when using the term "human trafficking?" 

wow you dont really know 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/feb/25/slavery-trafficking-thai-fishing-industry-environmental-justice-foundation

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/ng-interactive/2015/jul/28/map-countries-worst-human-trafficking

thailand has about 500,000 slaves and usually people from cambodia and burma

and there is the rohingya that were trafficked from myanmar to malaysia but were captured as slaves.

cambodians and burmese people get trafficked in to thailand for work because they got tricked in to it then when they arrive to thailand they get their passports taken.

 

in 2014 Thailand, Malaysia, Venezuela among worst human trafficking centers.

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trafficking-sanctions-idUSKBN0EV19S20140620

 

 

12 minutes ago, ta158 said:

wow you dont really know 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/feb/25/slavery-trafficking-thai-fishing-industry-environmental-justice-foundation

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/ng-interactive/2015/jul/28/map-countries-worst-human-trafficking

thailand has about 500,000 slaves and usually people from cambodia and burma

and there is the rohingya that were trafficked from myanmar to malaysia but were captured as slaves.

cambodians and burmese people get trafficked in to thailand for work because they got tricked in to it then when they arrive to thailand they get their passports taken.

 

in 2014 Thailand, Malaysia, Venezuela among worst human trafficking centers.

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trafficking-sanctions-idUSKBN0EV19S20140620

 

 

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Okay. Wow, that's very disheartening. Seems they could put a stop to it if they wanted to. I wouldn't be difficult, the boats go into Thai ports and the Cambodian and Burmese live on the boats while they are in port. The snooker halls are full of them. I'd have to assume that cracking down on Europeans working without permits (stealing jobs the Thais are actually willing to do), closing down night spots and raiding massage parlor photo shoots takes priority over forced labor and the slave trade.  

44 minutes ago, fullcave said:

Okay. Wow, that's very disheartening. Seems they could put a stop to it if they wanted to. I wouldn't be difficult, the boats go into Thai ports and the Cambodian and Burmese live on the boats while they are in port. The snooker halls are full of them. I'd have to assume that cracking down on Europeans working without permits (stealing jobs the Thais are actually willing to do), closing down night spots and raiding massage parlor photo shoots takes priority over forced labor and the slave trade.  

As you don't seem to be very well informed, here is a guess for you: which Thai institution is particularly involved in watching border zones and can be bribed for letting traffickers go through?

Urge!  Something so serious and no article 44?  Now that tells everyone something

Haha. It is like doing emergency situps and pushups before a big date.

Wanna catch illegal aliens? Raid a construction site and a factory, you'll leave with half the staff.

Good luck with that one, his speech must have fell on deaf ears.

Would help maybe if they weren't the ones doing the trafficking and benefitting from impunity and the system of no public oversight. Unfortunately, people will be as bad as you allow them to be. The honor system just doesn't work in this case.

so thai: lot of talk; little results; the surprising thing is not the lack of results, not even that , yet again, an outside party has to tell thailand what it's problems are but rather that thailand is surprised about it; shows what a mess thailand is

On 6/28/2017 at 1:53 PM, webfact said:

wrongdoers and government officials involved in human trafficking would be dealt with seriously.

In June 2015 the military arrested a naval officer,  a three-star Thai army general, and three mid-level army officers for human trafficking. That was just days before the US is set to issue its assessment of the country's anti-trafficking efforts.

 

In January 2017 criminal trial proceedings began against more than 80 suspects, including local officials and the General. The defense was expected to end by March 2017. No mention was made of the other navy and army officers who were arrested. Any reporting of what was said at the trial had been banned.

 

Now 2 years later thus far and no conviction of Thai military officers accused for alleged involvement in human trafficking activities. Conviction and harsh sentences of Thai military officers would show the US that the Prayut government is serious about punishing human trafficking that should help Thailand move to Tier 2.  But then maybe Prayut isn't serious.

The PM was not "fazed" by the TIP report but nevertheless he feels the need to immediately issue orders for people to do something about solving the problem..  He has previously said that everything possible was already being done.

 

Still, having now issued the latest order, everyone can now go back to sleep until the next TIP report.