Thursday, June 16, 2011

Thai police rescue 52 kidnapped Burmese

 16 June 2011
Thai police and anti-trafficking officials yesterday carried out a raid on a human trafficking racket in western Thailand that had demanded hefty ransom fees in return for the release of 52 kidnapped Burmese migrants.
An investigation into the racket, led by three Burmese and five Thai nationals, began when the mother of one of the migrants contacted the Thai Action Committee for Democracy in Burma (TACDB), a non-governmental group that monitors conditions for Burmese in Thailand.
She said that kidnappers had demanded 18,000 Thai baht ($US590) each for her daughter and son-in-law; if she failed to pay, the kidnappers would kill the son-in-law and sell the daughter on to a prostitution ring. When police raided the house in Suphan Buri province yesterday, they found 24 women and 28 men, all Burmese, also detained there.

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