Rohingya can stay 6 more months

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Published: 25 Jan 2013 at 20.06
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Thailand will shelter the Royingya for six months and seek talks with Myanmar and other countries to settle the fate of the illegal migrants, Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul said on Friday.

The decision was reached in talks between the Foreign Ministry and other security agencies amid growing calls for Thailand not to turn the migrants away after they have entered the kingdom.

The final say still rests with Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who has to endorse the plan after it is forwarded to her soon.

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oldairman
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Discussion 4 : 26 Jan 2013 at 07.594
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D1 As a Thai you have the right to know what your government spends its money as well as the right to oppose the decision. This does not mean of course that the goooovernment will take any notice of you and the ONLY way to oppose the decision is every general election.
That may not work too well if the government promises everybody will be rich in 6 months, everybody will get a minimum wage of 500 or 1,000 baht a day, everybody will get so much and you will all pay less tax.
The reality is that the government only NEED you every 4 years, and though they may HEAR you they certainly don't LISTEN to you.
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Discussion 3 : 26 Jan 2013 at 07.163
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@discussion1

12 Million baht for 6 months is very low ka. Maybe in Thailand if 30 million people pay the tax, it not even 40 satang each for a long 6 month. Thailand will make merit for help the poor people like this. sathu
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Discussion 2 : 26 Jan 2013 at 05.022
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"In the hopes that a solution will emerge"? The solution is to put massive financial and legal pressure on Burma NOW to take care of their own problems and not inflict them on neighboring nations,

Here's a starter: Dawei is off the table until a fund is established by the Government of Myanmar to provide aid, protection, education and food for the Rohingya. Better yet, just earmark .1% of the development cost and profits per annum to a "social cohesion" fund which protects these Burmese *nationals*.

The exact wrong thing to do is to buy time and let them stay. Pressure needs to be ratcheted up on Burma right now, not in 6 months.
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Discussion 1 : 26 Jan 2013 at 02.011
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May I as a Thai and have the full constitutional right to know why we must spend this 12 million baht to feed these refugees? Do we have any right to oppose this governmental decision to spend the taxpayers' money unnecessarily?
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