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Article

21 Oct 2013

Author:
Chutima Sidasathian & Alan Morison, Phuketwan (Thailand)

Captive Rohingya 'Now Being Sold By Thai Officials to People Traffickers'

Captive Rohingya are being smuggled out of Thailand in secret in sales deals negotiated between human traffickers and Immigration officials, Phuketwan has been told by well-informed sources. The unwanted boatpeople are being carried by local boats from a pier in the Thai-Burma port of Ranong to a trafficker's vessel for transfer south to Malaysia and sale…[The] Rohingya are sometimes onsold to trawler captains to work as virtual slaves in the fishing fleets off the coast of Malaysia or Thailand. A Thai broker recently told Phuketwan that the nature of trafficking and enslavement is growing worse, with the captains of Indonesian vessels now offering to buy Rohingya. ''At least one Indonesian captain was offering to buy 20 workers,'' the broker said…