Rohingya need citizenship: Kasit
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FORMER FOREIGN minister Kasit Piromya has urged Thailand and related countries and organisations to apply lessons learned from the influx of Vietnamese migrants two decades ago to solve the Rohingya boat people crisis. Kasit said Thailand should provide t
He said the international community should set up a central fund to take care of the Rohingya by improving their living conditions in Rakhine State in Myanmar and developing temporary shelters in Thailand.
He also urged the Asean community to call on Myanmar to give the Rohingya citizenship, and said the UN High Commissioner for Refugees should hold an urgent meeting in Geneva so countries wishing to help can take in Rohingya.
Meanwhile, a team of prosecutors has been sent to the South to work with police in investigating the case of trafficked Rohingya and Bangladeshis in Songkhla province.
The Attorney General’s Office said this was due to the fact that these cases took place in various areas inside Thailand and other countries such as Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Malaysia.
Meanwhile, deputy national police chief General Ake Angsananont, who heads the police probe, had a meeting with investigators for case progress yesterday morning.
He was told that 46 of the 77 |people sought for trafficking were now in custody – and that no more arrest warrants were issued.
Ake later visited Rohingya men at a holding centre in Ratthaphum district in Songkhla and met local residents to get them to help solve the trafficking problem, as the area was earlier found to have an illegal camp holding Rohingya and other migrants.
In Krabi, officials at Than Bok Khorani National Park were sent to patrol its many islands to prevent Rohingya from sneaking into the area adjacent to Phang-nga.
In Ranong, soldiers apprehended two undocumented men, who claimed to be Muslim Myanmar nationals, on suspicion they are illegal Rohingya migrants.
