Update January 15th: The UN putting the screws to Thai government, here.
Well, that isn’t the title all of the mainstream media news accounts use (or any of them use!) to describe the recent discovery of 400 illegal migrant Rohingya being held by traffickers in Southern Thailand. The usual title of the story sounds like this “Evil, mean, xenophobic, racist, Islamophobic Thai government deporting poor starving souls, says Human Rights group.” (My exaggeration of course).
Here is the story all over the news today (not FOX News). This version from AFP (emphasis mine):
BANGKOK — Around 400 Rohingya migrants discovered in a raid on a camp hidden in a remote rubber plantation in southern Thailand will be deported back to Myanmar, Thai police said on Friday.
The group, 378 men, 11 women and 12 children, were found in a makeshift shelter in the plantation in Songkhla province where they had languished for three months waiting to be trafficked to a “third country”, local police said.
Acting on a tip-off officials stormed the shelter on Thursday and found the Rohingya, a Muslim minority group not recognised as citizens in Myanmar who have fled sectarian unrest in their thousands to Thailand and other countries.
“They are now waiting for deportation which will be done by Thailand’s immigration police,” Lieutenant Colonel Katika Jitbanjong of Padang Besar local police told AFP.
“They told officials that they had volunteered to come (to Thailand),” he said, adding police were seeking an arrest warrant for the Thai landowner on charges of human trafficking and sheltering illegal migrants.
Rights groups decry Thailand for failing to help Rohingya migrants who reach its territory, instead pushing them back to Myanmar or on to neighbouring countries including Malaysia, which offers sanctuary to the minority.
EVERYONE knows that if they are allowed to stay, tens of thousands will follow them to Thailand.
For more on Rohingya refugees (who are being resettled in small numbers in the US) visit our Rohingya Reports category. This is post 132 in that category. And, LOL!, if I ever write a book on Refugee Resettlement, the Rohingya will be used as my primary example of how the “humanitarian” industry builds a public relations campaign for massive resettlement. I wasn’t around for the start of our Somali mass migration to America, but I bet it went just like the Rohingya case is now going.
And, don’t forget, find a copy of the Trojan Horse—the Islamic doctrine of immigration—and read it!