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Article

31 Mar 2019

Author:
Prasit Tangprasert, The Nation

Thailand: Cambodians smuggled to do unspecified job were arrested for illegal logging

"12 undocumented Cambodians arrested in rubber plantation", 31 March 2019

Twelve Cambodians were arrested...after they were suspected to have gathered at a rubber plantation in tambon Khok Khrachai in Nakhon Ratchasima province with the intention of cutting down Siamese rosewood trees in the Thap Lan National Park.

...[P]olice and administrative officials to apprehend the 12 male Cambodians who reportedly confessed to illegally entering the Kingdom by crossing the border via a natural channel into Sa Kaew province. They claimed that a Cambodian investor had arranged for their transport to do an unspecified job, which promised them a daily wage of Bt10,000 per head.

...Police discounted the claims of these workers being smuggled in to work elsewhere in other jobs, and said they were convinced these workers were meant for illegal logging because Khon Buri had previously seen cases of migrants being smuggled in to cut down Siamese rosewood trees in the national park.