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Thailand's human trafficking crackdown fuels fresh calls

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Thailand's human trafficking crackdown fuels fresh calls

GWEN ROBINSON, Chief editor

 

Mass conviction shows new determination to act, but rights groups want more

 

BANGKOK -- The shockwaves from scores of convictions in Thailand's biggest human trafficking case are reverberating in the country's highest military and political circles, amid predictions that more actions could follow.

 

The Thai criminal court on July 19 sentenced 62 people out of 102 defendants on charges related to human trafficking. Among those convicted were former army general Manas Kongpan, who was sentenced to 27 years for trafficking and organized transnational crime, along with a provincial mayor, businessmen and local government officials in southern Thailand.

 

The case stemmed from a sweeping probe launched after the discovery in late 2015 of a mass grave containing nearly 40 bodies near a secret jungle camp in southern Thailand.

 

Full story: http://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/Policy-Politics/Thailand-s-human-trafficking-crackdown-fuels-fresh-calls

 

-- NIKKEI ASIAN REVIEW 2017-07-24

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