Report: Thailand Selling Rohingya to Human Traffickers

A news agency investigation says Thai officials have been secretly allowing Rohingya Muslim refugees to be dumped off to human traffickers, who hold them for ransom under brutal conditions. The report by the Reuters news agency said Thai immigration officials were often complicit in the policy toward the Rohingya, who are escaping unrest and religious persecution in neighboring Burma. It said many of the refugees were told by officials they were being deported back to Burma. Only after...

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