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Six more bodies found as smuggling investigation continues
Thai authorities investigating people-smuggling said six more bodies were found on Wednesday in the same patch of jungle bordering Malaysia where the remains of dozens of migrants were exhumed last...
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Thirty more graves unearthed in Thailand
Police found 30 new graves at an old, unused Muslim burial ground inside an abandoned detention camp for illegal Rohingya migrants in Thailand’s Hat Yai district in Songkhla on Thursday morning. The...
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Trafficking trail comes undone in southern Thailand
As dozens more Rohingya, including children, were found abandoned by trafficking gangs in Thailand’s Songkhla and Satun provinces Thursday, Police and officials found to have turned a blind eye to the...
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OPINION: Clearing traffickers’ camps is not the solution
Thailand’s junta chief has given a ten-day deadline for the elimination of all illegal detention camps of smuggled migrants across the country’s 76 provinces after the discovery of two abandoned sites...
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Songkhla just one piece of trafficking puzzle
The massive crackdown on human trafficking networks in Padang Besar is a good sign, reflecting that Thailand’s government is serious about dealing with the problem. However, the illegal activities in...
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UN warns of humanitarian crisis in Andaman Sea
Malaysia and Indonesia have vowed to turn back any boats carrying migrants that enter their waters, as the UN calls for “a massive international search and rescue operation” in the Andaman Sea and...
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Kidnapped baby reunited with mother in Mae Sot
A Burmese infant abducted in Tak province has been returned to her mother after a photo of the kidnapping went viral on social media, police said on Friday. The eight-month-old girl was taken in front...
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Mass graves discovery shocks Malaysia, spurs Thai reaction
Thai police plan to press additional charges of transnational crime against 46 of 77 suspects currently in police custody for human trafficking in the country’s south. Several more suspects have also...
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Owner of trafficking boat arrested in Rangoon
The owner of a human trafficking vessel found near Maungdaw in Arakan State was arrested in Rangoon on May 29, the Ministry of Home Affairs announced on Saturday. Thai national Ou Mint – also known as...
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Rohingya woman tells of rape in traffickers’ camps
Muslim Rohingya women who were held in human trafficking camps in Thailand and Malaysia were subjected to gang rapes by their captors, assaults that left at least two of them pregnant, a Malaysian...
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155 boatpeople returned to Bangladesh
Burma sent 155 migrants back to Bangladesh on Wednesday, more than a month after rescuing them from a boat stranded at sea. Bangladesh said it had agreed to take back the 155, all judged to be economic...
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Slavery fishing boats detected off Papuan coast
From space, the fishing boats are just little white specks floating in a vast stretch of blue water off Papua New Guinea. But zoom in and there’s the critical evidence: Two trawlers loading...
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Thailand languishes at bottom of US trafficking report
The US government’s decision to keep Thailand on its list of worst human trafficking centres for an unprecedented two straight years highlights the suspected role of Thai officials in the trade,...
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Govt confirms 159 Bangladeshis repatriated
The Burmese government has confirmed via the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 10 August the repatriation of 159 verified Bangladesh nationals. The boatpeople were handed over on Monday to the Bangladeshi...
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105 Burmese fishermen repatriated
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has repatriated 105 Burmese migrant workers, the first of some 364 nationals stranded in Indonesia. Other reports have put the number of returned...
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Human traffickers arrested in Burmese-Thai operation
A notorious human trafficking ring was busted in Thailand’s Kanchanaburi Province, following reports of murder, rape and extortion of vulnerable Burmese migrant workers. Thai authorities arrested the...
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Thai crackdown points people smugglers to Malaysia
People smugglers are exploring new routes to Malaysia after a crackdown on trafficking in Thailand with no large migrant boat departures from Burma and Bangladesh in nearly six months, aid agencies...
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Obama accused of putting trade before trafficking victims
Inus bin Abul Baser, an 18-year-old from Burma’s persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority, believed he’d escaped the worst when he managed to buy his freedom from human traffickers in Thailand and enter...
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Trafficking, abuse systemic on Thai fishing boats, says UK rights group
A three-year investigation into slavery on Thailand’s fishing boats has uncovered a well-oiled system of trafficking, abuse and exploitation in the southern port of Kantang, leading to eight arrests...
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Southeast Asia urged not to repeat migrant crisis
Southeast Asian countries were urged on Tuesday to treat migrants landing on their shores humanely and avoid a repeat of this year’s disaster in which hundreds of refugees were either lost at sea or...
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