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Key Player in Human Trafficking of Rohingya Migrants Arrested

Anti-Human Trafficking police have arrested a man for allegedly smuggling at least 200 Rohingya migrants into the Thailand destined for Malaysia. With the most recent group of 14 migrants arrested in the Deep South.

56 year-old Mr. Charin Chuenchom was arrested at a house in Ratchaburi, Pol Col Apisant Chairat said.

Mr. Charin was wanted under an arrest warrant issued by a criminal court in the southern Thailand. Police charged him with smuggling migrants and trafficking in persons.

Pol Col Apisant said that the suspect was a key member of a human trafficking gang. The gang illegally transports Muslim Rohingya people from the Myanmar through Thailand to Malaysia. The gang also included a former railway policeman.

According to the Bangkok Post, they charged each Rohingya migrant 12,000 baht. We believe the gang have smuggled Rohingya people on more than 20 occasions. They trafficked about 10-15 people each time, collecting more than 4 million baht, Pol Col Apisant Chairat said.

According to Pol Col Apisant, authorities arrested 14 illegal Rohingya migrants and two Thai smugglers on a train in January last year. Mr Chanin is suspected of using Thai citizens’s identities to buy train tickets for the migrants.

The train was destined for the Thai-Malaysian border. The migrants were extremely hungry as they had no food, only a small amount of drinking water.

Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants, rescued off Myanmar’s southern coast last week, collect rainwater during a monsoon downpour at a temporary refugee camp outside Maungdaw township, in the northern state of Rakhine.

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Malaysia found mass graves of migrants near Thailand border

Malaysia announced Sunday the discovery of mass graves that may contain the remains of migrants from Bangladesh and Burma, victims of trafficking and find themselves in the heart of a regional crisis.

Malaysian Interior Minister Zahid Hamidi was quoted by newspaper The Star website, explained that the graves had been unearthed near the camps set up by smugglers near the border with Thailand.

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It’s evident that there is apathy for the Rohingya people, even though people would be speaking out if they weren't from South Asia.

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'Please help us or we will die' Rohingya migrants pleads for rescue on stricken vessel

Hundreds of starving migrants have pleaded for urgent rescue after they were abandoned by smugglers on a boat in waters believed to be near both Thailand and Malaysia, an activist said yesterday.

Their desperate appeal came as a distraught Rohingya man in the Malaysian capital told AFP he had spoken to his wife who is also onboard a broken migrant boat with three of their children.

The Arakan Project, which monitors migrant journeys across the Bay of Bengal, said it had spoken by telephone to Rohingya migrants on board an abandoned vessel yesterday afternoon.

The boat, which is believed to be carrying around 350 people including dozens of women and children, was thought to be cast adrift by a Thai smuggling gang who fled the vessel after disabling the ship’s engine on Sunday.

“They told us they have had no food and water for the last three days. They have called for urgent rescue,” said Chris Lewa, the founder of the Arakan Project.

The migrants, she added, were unsure of their exact location and believed they were in waters close to Thailand’s southern border with Malaysia.

The migrants were reached on a mobile phone with a Thai number and said there were 50 women and 84 children on board the vessel.

Speaking from his tiny flat in Kuala Lumpur, the husband of another Rohingya migrant currently at sea said he had managed to briefly speak to his wife by phone onboard a stricken vessel.

“She said there is no food or water. If the children or babies cry, they wet their lips with some sea water,” Mohammed Hashim, who is in his early 40s, told AFP, frequently breaking down in tears.

“She told me: ‘Please help or we will die’,” he added.

It is not clear if the boat is the same one contacted by the Arakan Project.

The UN has led warnings that thousands of migrants are believed to be stranded at sea without food and water and could die unless Southeast Asian governments act urgently to rescue them.