Migrants who were found at sea on a boat stand in line as they are repatriated across the Myanmar-Bangladesh border in Rakhine in June 2015 (Source: AFP)
Hanoi (VNA)⛎ – A Thai man masterminding the trafficking of Myanmar’s Rohingya migrants has been jailed for 35 years, a Thai court said on September 1.
A spokesman of the Pak Phanang provincial court said apart from the imprisonment, Sunand Saengthong had to pay a fine of 660,000 THB (19,000 USD).
His two accomplices were sentenced to one year and six months in jail, respectively.
Sunand was arrested during a raid in January last year which uncovered 97
Rohingya migrants.
Witnesses said that money from the human trafficking gang was transferred to Sunand's bank account, adding that he was a ringleader of Rohingya trafficking in southern Thailand.
The Asian Human Rights Commission, which has followed the prosecution, said police searched five vehicles during their raid and discovered migrants crammed in, including more than 40 Rohingya.
For years, thousands of migrants, mostly Rohingya in Myanmar and Bangladesh, fled their homeland by sea, looking for work abroad, including Malaysia and Indonesia
Southern Thailand has long been known as a nexus for lucrative smuggling
networks through which persecuted Rohingya Muslims in Buddhist-majority
Myanmar, and Bangladeshi economic migrants, pass on their way to Malaysia.
Thailand's junta launched a belated crackdown in 2015 on traffickers who abandoned hundreds of victims on boats and in squalid jungle camps.
In raids last year, Thai police arrested about 100 alleged human traffickers, including a senior army general. Most of them are currently being tried in Bangkok.-VNA
Cambodian press on May 23 reported that Prime Minister Hun Sen said the country may provide temporary shelter to thousands of migrant Rohingya who are being stranded at sea on the condition that the UN will resettle the migrants in another country, citing a statement of the Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan.
Thai police said on August 13 that they arrested 22 people accused for involvement in trafficking of Rohingya migrants from Myanmar as part of an ongoing large-scale crackdown launched in May.
Thailand on March 15 began a human trafficking trial with 92 defendants who were arrested by Thai authorities after mass graves of illegal migrants were found in the southern Thai jungle.
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Migrants who were found at sea on a boat stand in line as they are repatriated across the Myanmar-Bangladesh border in Rakhine in June 2015 (Source: AFP)
