Refugee's Beat by Thai Army

A group of refugees from Myanmar who were rescued by Indonesian authorities claimed Wednesday that 22 of their number died after they were abandoned at sea by the Thai military. The survivors told horrible tales of being captured and beaten the Thai Military is said to be targeting Rohingya refugees, a Muslim minority group from Myanmar, have caused Thai authorities to launch an investigation. It is said that the Thai military officials tow them out to sea and remove there engines and leave them to die. Survivors are severely beaten by Thia officials. Delegates from Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Myanmar went to Thailand because of such allegations. Its really unfair how they would do this to refugees who just ran away from danger and the help the are getting is just puttting them in more danger.

(Thu February 5, 2009). Refugees claim they were beaten, abandoned by Thai military. Retrieved February 7, 2009, from cnn.com/asia Web site: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/04/thailand.refugees/index.html