Boatpeople

There were many thousands of Rohingya boatpeople refugees detained in a few secret islands of Thailand during 2008.
THE THAI NAVY has confirmed since March 2008 that several islands have already been explored in readiness for building a detention centre for these boat people, when the number reached at thousand in March. (See the link- "Andaman Island Sites Readied for Boat People" -- http://phuketwan.com/tourism/andaman-island-sites-ready-for-push-against-boat-people/

But Rohingya boatpeople didn't receive effective interference before Thai-navy pushed them back into international waters. Think here again how about those still remain in isolated islands.  The following report tell their plights;

24 Feb 2012, Rohingya Remain Unwanted as Secrecy Covers Treatment of Boatpeople
(About 400 boatpeople remain in detention on the isolated islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean more than three years on from Thailand's notorious ''pushbacks,'' says a new investigation.)



 .......................Repeated mistreatments towards Rohingya boat people in 2011....................
In Jan 2011, three boats of Rohingya refugees landed over the weekend of January in Southern Thai-waters, were similarly pushed back into international waters. Despite PM Abhisit Vejjajiva had promised to hold investigation all those involved to account and or compensation for those lost of lives in relation to towing boat people total about 1116 Rohingya and some Bangladeshi during 2008.
A group 91 persons rescued near India-Andaman Island and another group 129 persons rescued near Indo-Acheh.
a) 29 April  2011, Rohingya detainees allege Thai abuse
(Around 91 Rohingya were reportedly rescued by the Indian Navy adrift in the Bay of Bengal, who alleged that they had been pushed out to sea on 19 Jan 2011 by the Thai Navy in a vessel with no engine and only 100 litres of water. 25 had to be admitted to hospital after their rescue.)


b) 16 Feb 2011, 129 boat people from Myanmar rescued off Indonesia's Aceh
( A total of 129 people, all men in their 20s except for a 13-year-old boy, were on the vessel found in waters about 200 kilometers east of the  the provincial capital Banda Aceh.)
More Boatpeople Sailing Past Phuket, say Reports
(a boatload of boys and men who sailed earlier this month was intercepted and ''helped on'' off the Thai island of Prayam in the border province of Ranong just yesterday, 22 Nov 2011.)

25 Jan 2011, THAILAND: Concern over Rohingya boat people


............................... Tragic stories of 2008-2009.........................................................


27 Jan 2009, Thais admit boat people set adrift
Notes from "Equal Rights Trust-ERT letter to Thai PM Abhist Vejjajiva"  on 23 Jan 2009.
http://lib.ohchr.org/HRBodies/UPR/Documents/session12/TH/ERT-EqualRightsTrust-Annex-eng.pdf
total towed into intl waters: The first reported forced expulsion on 11 December 2008 resulted in approximately 580 Rohingya being cast out to sea. Over 230 of them are reportedly missing or dead.
The second forced expulsion involving over 400 persons took place in the same manner on 18 December 2008. This group was towed in a single barge and abandoned in international waters north of Thailand’s Koh Surin Island. Over 300 of this group are presumed missing or dead.


What happened to nearly 5000 Rohingya who were caught in Thai-waters during 2008. Did they receive intervention before Thai-navy pushed-back into international waters? The following reports tell their stories;
(a) 28 March 2008, 'Deathship' Burmese Muslims Forced Back to Border
(CONCERN IS mounting about the fate of a large group of Burmese Muslim boat people who have been arrested in Phang Nga and trucked back to the border with Burma.
The Muslims, numbering about 80, landed on Koh Kor Khao on Wednesday and later told a migration officer that there had been deaths on board.)

(b) 19 April 2008, Exile Island Plan: Two Hundred Burmese in Jail
(ABOUT 200 Burmese Muslims, known as Rohingya, are being held in jail by Immigration officials in Phang Nga, Phuketwan has learned.)

(c) 17 Dec 2008, 'Starving' Boatloads: Phuket Call for UN Action
( Between December 5 and December 13 a total of 576 of the Rohingya, or Burmese Muslims, arrived in Thai waters in five boats, according to the spokesman.
The largest group of 210 were travelling on a single boat and were taken into custody on Surin island, roughly offshore from the border between the provinces of Ranong and Phang Nga, on Saturday.
Five navy vessels now on constant patrol apprehended the other four boatloads of Rohingya in the same region.
Once the boats come within Thai waters, 12 nautical miles off the coast, the Thai navy apprehends them. )

(d) 19 Dec 2008, Phuket Navy Holds Rohingya: Photo Special
(So far this year-2008, nearly 5000 Rohingya have been caught. Concerns are held for Thaiand's security because they have all been men.)
(The Navy has supplied Phuketwan with photographs of its December 13 interception and capture of a single boatload of 210 Burmese Muslim men.)

(e) 9 Jann 2009,  Exclusive: Secret Rohingya 'Exile Island' Revealed
(THAILAND'S Army is secretly detaining boat people on an ''exile island'' in the Andaman and periodically sending them off at sea in international waters in large numbers.)
http://phuketwan.com/tourism/rohingya-ranong-exile-island/

(f) 10 Jan 2009, Phuketwan Voyages to Secret Exile Island
(On December 18, we have learned from reliable sources, a total of 412 unwanted Rohingya were taken out to international waters north of Surin island and left to their own devices...//...That December release brought to about 800 the number of Rohingya who have been turned back in this fashion since the Army became involved late last year, one informant told us.)

(g) 15 JAn 2009, Similans Tourists See Boat People Mistreated
(Thai officials have confirmed that the Thai Navy apprehended a group of 93 Rohingya boatpeople on December 23, and took them to the island of Koh Baed for processing. The Royal Thai Navy refused to comment immediately on the incident, saying that all questions had to be submitted in writing first.)

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