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Police in Thailand announced Wednesday that they had arrested 78 people this month – mostly Thais – who were suspected of smuggling in more than 260 migrant workers from Myanmar and other neighboring countries.
The crackdown on suspected traffickers of migrant workers came on orders from Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-o-cha last month, amid a wave of coronavirus infections, Police Gen. Suwat Changyodsuk, the national police chief, said at a news conference. Authorities had blamed the surge in COVID-19 cases on migrants who had entered the country illegally via the kingdom’s shuttered borders.
“The operations are focused on trafficking rings – brokers and their masterminds – who smuggle illegal workers in or out. We are not focused on suppressing the illegal workers because the government has a clear policy on bringing some of them into the labor system and letting them work,” Suwat said.
Southern border becomes key in Covid fight
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More patrols, electric fences in crackdown
published : 23 Jan 2021 at 07:00
4 Back to backs: A customer returns for a massage at Baiyoke Sky Hotel in Bangkok on the first day City Hall lifted Covid-19 curbs on 13 types of establishments including Thai traditional massage parlours. The business operators must socially distance customers and clean their premises frequently as part of disease control measures. (Photo by Chanat Katanyu)
The southern region was being widely used to smuggle migrant labourers into Thailand, says the 4th Army Region commander.
He was speaking after figures showed that more than 600 illegal migrants from neighbouring countries were recently apprehended while attempting to enter by way of the southern region s natural border.
Cops probe Free Guards abduction
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published : 19 Jan 2021 at 07:00
9 Free Guards members on Monday gather outside Pathumwan Municipal Court to wait for the release on bail of four of their group. (Photo by Wichan Charoenkiatpakul)
Investigations are underway to find the culprits behind the alleged abduction of a member of the Free Guards group, police said on Monday.
Police spokesman Pol Maj Gen Yingyos Thepchamnong said Mongkhol Yel Santimethakul filed a complaint with Samut Prakan provincial police claiming he was abducted by a group of men claiming to be officers of the Internal Security Operations Command (Isoc).
After leaving the rally site, Mr Mongkhol, 23, said he discovered he had lost his keys. A man and his friends immediately offered to help him retrace his steps to find them, but instead bundled him into a waiting van once they were out of sight of the anyone else at or leaving the event.