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Nu har även HRW Human Right Watch http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/06/19/Thailand-fears-crackdown-trigger-exodus gjort ett uttalande om massflykten av Kambodjaner ifrån Thailand som nu ska ha passerat 200 000 personer.
HRW ser Juntans agerande som en katastrof och kräver att reformer som skyddar gästarbetarna istället för att hota dom.
Thailand: Fears of Crackdown Trigger Exodus Adopt Reforms to Protect Migrant Worker Rights
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Cambodian workers ride on military trucks as they prepare to cross the Thai-Cambodia border at Aranyaprathet in Sa Kaew on June 15, 2014.
© 2014 Reuters
The Thai junta’s new regulations have caused a massive flight of migrant workers, who have long endured abuses from officials and unscrupulous employers. The junta needs to reverse this disaster by quickly putting into place genuine reforms that would protect migrant workers’ rights, not threaten them.
(New York) – The Thai military authorities should urgently improve human rights protections of migrant workers to end their mass flight from the country, Human Rights Watch said today.
Following the military coup on May 22, 2014, several hundred thousand registered and unregistered migrant workers from Cambodia, Burma, and Laos have fled the country in fear of a government crackdown and newly announced regulations. More than 200,000 Cambodian workers have returned to Cambodia, according to the International Organization for Migration and Cambodian police. Smaller numbers have crossed into Burma. At least eight fleeing migrants have died in traffic accidents on Thai roads, and many of those who crossed the border into Cambodia had been in squalid and unhealthy conditions before they were able to move to other parts of the country.
“The Thai junta’s new regulations have caused a massive flight of migrant workers, who have long endured abuses from officials and unscrupulous employers,” said Brad Adams, Asia director. “The junta needs to reverse this disaster by quickly putting into place genuine reforms that would protect migrant workers’ rights, not threaten them.”

