Mass grave in Songkhla province may foreshadow more discover

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Mass grave in Songkhla province may foreshadow more discover

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Possible complicity by the authorities ? Who would have thought it ?
Human trafficking may have taken place in Thailand on a far greater scale than previously suspected, with dozens of mass graves containing the bodies of victims lying undiscovered throughout the country’s south, according to testimony gathered by a Bangkok-based human rights group.

The claim comes after Thai authorities uncovered two graves apparently containing the remains of Rohingya “boat people” brought to remote parts of the country from Burma by transnational criminal syndicates. The discovery of 26 corpses at a mass burial site in Songkhla province on 1 May was followed days later by the finding of two skeletons in a second southern province, Phang Nga. More corpses have since been found close to the original site.

But interviews with survivors, brokers and police officials, carried out by the NGO Fortify Rights for a report on Rohingya trafficking, suggest these grim finds may only scratch the surface of a much larger problem in which the Thai government is allegedly complicit.
http://www.theguardian.com/global-devel ... gya-people
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the previous goverment (s) knew about this for years an did nothing cause everyone was making $$

Local Publisher of the PhuketWan Allan Morrison broke the story back in 2009 and now is goig thru the court system
In 2009, Phuketwan broke the story of the Thai government’s policy of “push-backs”, where asylum boats were forced back to sea, a story that ultimately led to a change in government policy.

An Australian journalist who is facing a defamation charge from the Thai navy and the possibility of a jail term will return to the country from Australia unrepentant for stories alleging abuse of Rohingyan asylum seekers by Thai authorities.

“We must defend this,” Alan Morison told Guardian Australia this week. “If bullies in uniform can silence reporters, then you don’t have a democracy.”
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/j ... ation-case
First, some background. The Rohingya have been systematically mistreated over the years, including by the Thai military. Below is an excerpt from a previous post which summarizes much of what transpired with the Rohingya in late 2008/early 2009:

The Nation should think back to the beginning of the year when the Rohingya were towed out to the sea by the Thai military (see here, here, and here). The reason we found about this story because some of the Rohingya boat people who had been towed out to sea by Thai military survived and made it to Indonesia and India after drifting for a number of days without food and water (see hereand here). The number who died we will never know – the internal Thai investigation unsurprisingly found nothing – but from statements given to the Indonesian and Indian governments and to the media by survivors, it appears to be in the hundreds. We have extensive coverage by the South China Morning Postand CNN (the CNN reports won a prestigious award) – you also have coverage by the BBC and Al Jazeera, amongst others. We had foreign governments specifically criticize the Thai government handling of the Rohingya.

Then, of course, we saw the typical Thai government and bureaucracy response with the the military (see here and here), the Foreign Minister, a Senator, and aDeputy PM criticize the international media saying they wanted to slander Thailand and that they could not be trusted in their coverage of the Rohingya boat people. Eventually the military admitted they towed out (or in Foreign Ministry speak “escorted“) the Rohingya in their boats and dumped them in the middle of the ocean, but well no action was taken against anyone.

http://asiancorrespondent.com/121718/pu ... phuketwan/


Current goverment has so so MUCH to clean up. 2-3 years wont be enough time to get rid of the shit
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interesting piece here
Promising jobs in Malaysia, a gang of human traffickers held about 250,000 Bangladeshis captive in Thailand for ransom over the past eight years and made millions of taka.

Lured by dreams of a better life, many of the country's poor boarded cargo vessels to arrive in Thailand first and then travel overland to Malaysia.

However, before they could make it to their final destination, their dreams turned into a collective nightmare. Held in crammed and filthy conditions in jungles for months, even years, they were often beaten up and starved for ransom.
http://www.asianewsnet.net/Families-for ... 74737.html
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
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