Thai PM says Myanmar migrants sent back to sea

[Coventina]

Source: Associated Press

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — Thailand's prime minister acknowledged Friday that authorities towed would-be refugees from Myanmar back out to sea, but insisted that their human rights were not violated.

Many Rohingya, who are denied citizenship in their native land, have tried to land in Thailand after treacherous sea journeys in recent months, only to be turned away.

Rescued migrants have charged that they were towed out to the high seas in boats with no engines by the Thai navy. Officials in the Indian navy, who rescued some in the Andaman Sea, believed on the basis of survivors' accounts that hundreds may have perished.

There also were allegations that Thai authorities had beaten some Rohingya who made it ashore before they were sent on their way and ended up in Indonesia.



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Horrific.

[DavidDvorkin]

1. We didn't kill them. The sea did.

So we've done nothing wrong.