Monday, 21 January 2013
By
MCOT
SONGKHLA, Jan 18 – Muslim groups in Thailand have called on the
government to temporarily suspend the deportation of Rohingya migrants
who illegally entered the kingdom in the South last week and are seeking
international cooperation in resettling the ethnic people in a third
country
At the central mosque in Songkhla province, representatives of the
Central Islamic Committee of Thailand, the Sheikhul Islam Office and
Islamic committees in five southern provinces said they were willing to
provide temporary shelter to the Rohingya migrants without criminal
charges until suitable settlements were arranged for them.
They offered the central mosque in Songkhla as the Rohingya migrants’ temporary home and asked for people’s donations and food.
Tawee Sodsong, secretary general of the Southern Border Provinces
Administrative Centre, and Songkhla Governor Krisda Bunrat visited
Rohingya children and women at the Home for Children and Families in
Songkhla yesterday. Thai health officials were also available to give
them health checks.
Pol Col Tawee said they were not the first groups of Rohinya migrants
who illegally entered Thailand, and the Foreign Ministry and National
Security Council would have to find long-term solutions and assistance
to the Muslim ethnic people fleeing from Myanmar.
In neighbouring Narathiwat province, Muslim and Buddhist Thais
brought a truckload of necessities to the Home for Children and Families
to be donated to 18 Rohinya migrants residing there while about 20
youths will arrive at the home in the next few days.
Source: here
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