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Thai minister calls ambassadors to discuss migrant abuse claims |
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Updated at:
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PST, Monday, January 19, 2009 |
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PATTANI: Thailand's foreign minister said Monday he would meet ambassadors from Malaysia, Myanmar, India and Bangladesh to discuss claims that authorities abused migrants and set them adrift at sea.
The Thai navy has denied accusations from survivors and local rights groups that it detained up to 1,000 asylum-seekers from Myanmar's Rohingya ethnic minority, before leaving them at sea with paltry supplies of food and water. "The foreign ministry will later invite ambassadors from Malaysia, Myanmar, India and Bangladesh to discuss the Rohingya issue. The ministry may invite the ambassador from Indonesia," Kasit Piromya told reporters. Kasit, speaking during a trip to Pattani province in the south of Thailand, also said they would look into the issue of the human traffickers who smuggle the desperate Rohingya down to Malaysia.
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