Thai Army Raids Traffickers' Border Camp, 366 Rohingya Held Captive
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| Children being treated today inside the people smugglers' camp (Photo - Metee Mooktaree) |
Phuket Wan
January 10, 2013
PHUKET: Thai authorities raided a secret transit camp for Rohingya on the border with Malaysia today, apprehending 366 men, women and children and seven alleged people traffickers.
Sixty-two of those being held were aged under 15 with three babies less than a year old, and 11 women, local police said.
The raid is the latest development as thousands of Rohingya flee ethnic cleansing in Burma after being burned from their houses in what's called ''community violence.''
It came as an undercover Rohingya working with the Army bought two boatpeople for 95,000 baht in a ''sting'' in Padangnezar district, in the Thai province of Songkgla.
