Thailand to deport 400 Rohingya migrants after raid
- Published: 11 Jan 2013 at 12.45
- Online news: Asia
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.
This file photo shows a Rohingya migrant looking out from the window of a police van while being transported out of jail to the Thai immigration police in the southern province of Ranong, on January 31, 2009. 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.
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.
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