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Three Myanmar Rohingya arrested on trafficking charges
BANGKOK, June 16 (TNA) -- Three ethnic Rohingya men from Myanmar have been arrested by Thai immigration police and the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) and charged with involvement in transnational criminal activities.
Pol. Col. Tawee Sodsong, DSI chief, and representatives of the army and the police bureau, jointly told the press Tuesday that the first Rohingya man was arrested Monday in the northeastern province of Chaiyaphum.
The two other men were apprehended in Hat Yai in the southern provinces of Songkhla, said Pol. Col. Tawee.
Police also seized computers, a number of items of falsified Thai government documents and immigration stamps.
He said all the three men are also allegedly engaged in sending South Asian people to third countries via Thailand and the seized documents indicated showed that the trio might have supported militants operating in Thailand’s southern border provinces.
Hundreds of Rohingya boat people have been arrested, mainly off the southern province of Ranong bordering Myanmar. They have told Thai authorities that they had escaped Myanmar and wanted to resettle in third country for a better life and to also avoid discrimination imposed on them by the Myanmar authorities.
Many of them have been deported by Thailand, but many remain following an international outcry urging the Thai government to shelter the boat people on humanitarian grounds. (TNA)
Pol. Col. Tawee Sodsong, DSI chief, and representatives of the army and the police bureau, jointly told the press Tuesday that the first Rohingya man was arrested Monday in the northeastern province of Chaiyaphum.
The two other men were apprehended in Hat Yai in the southern provinces of Songkhla, said Pol. Col. Tawee.
Police also seized computers, a number of items of falsified Thai government documents and immigration stamps.
He said all the three men are also allegedly engaged in sending South Asian people to third countries via Thailand and the seized documents indicated showed that the trio might have supported militants operating in Thailand’s southern border provinces.
Hundreds of Rohingya boat people have been arrested, mainly off the southern province of Ranong bordering Myanmar. They have told Thai authorities that they had escaped Myanmar and wanted to resettle in third country for a better life and to also avoid discrimination imposed on them by the Myanmar authorities.
Many of them have been deported by Thailand, but many remain following an international outcry urging the Thai government to shelter the boat people on humanitarian grounds. (TNA)
