Showing posts with label Rohingya people. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rohingya people. Show all posts

Thursday, July 9, 2015

Trial of Australian Journalist and Colleague on Thai Charges Set to Proceed - Phuket Wan

The charges came about after the pair published an excerpt from a Reuters story about the trafficking and persecution of Rohingya refugees that implicated Thai ''naval forces''. 

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Saturday, May 2, 2015

Global concern grows as Rohingya bodies surface in Thailand | Mizzima


According to Human Rights Watch, a joint Thai military-police taskforce found the bodies at an abandoned human trafficking camp. 

See more at: http://www.mizzima.com/news-international/global-concern-grows-rohingya-bodies-surface-thailand#sthash.NPK3mQLZ.dpuf



Monday, April 20, 2015

Human traffickers find easy prey among Myanmar's minorities | Public Radio International

It’s been 47 days since Abdul, a scrawny Rohingya male in his 40s, sent his 14-year-old daughter Dildar away from the Internally Displaced Persons camp where they’d been living in squalid conditions with little food or health care. Dildar left on a fishing boat crammed with other Rohingya Muslims escaping oppression in Rakhine state in the westernmost part of Myanmar, the country formerly called Burma.

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Friday, October 24, 2014

Special Report: Traffickers use abductions, prison ships to feed Asian slave trade | Reuters


"Testimonies from Bangladeshi and Rohingya survivors provide evidence of a shift in tactics in one of Asia’s busiest human-trafficking routes. In the past, evidence showed most people boarded smuggling boats voluntarily. Now people are being abducted or tricked and then taken to larger ships anchored in international waters just outside Bangladesh’s maritime boundary."

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Sunday, April 20, 2014

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Special Report - Flaws found in Thailand's human-trafficking crackdown - swissinfo.ch

Source:  swissinfo.ch



By Andrew R.C. Marshall and Amy Sawitta Lefevre

SATUN, Thailand (Reuters) - After a two-hour trek through swamp and jungle, Police Major
General Thatchai Pitaneelaboot halts in a trash-strewn clearing near
Thailand's remote border with Malaysia.

"This is it," he says, surveying the remains of a deserted camp on a hillside pressed flat by the weight of human bodies.


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http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news/international/Special_Report_-_Flaws_found_in_Thailands_human-trafficking_crackdown.html?cid=38365296
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