Bangkok Post
Deputy Prime Minister Sonthi Boonyaratkalin and governors of five provinces the have been condemned for alleged discrimination against migrant workers, who are forced to give up some daily activities for their right to work in the country.
From making a call on a mobile phone to driving cars and motorcycles, holding religious activities or giving birth to children, all are banned by officials for security reasons under a policy to control the number of alien workers, according to Sriprapha Petcharamesree, director of the Office of Human Rights Studies and Social Development at Mahidol University.
These bans have begun to have an unpleasant impact as pregnant workers have been reportedly having abortions by themselves to avoid being sent back to their own countries.
''Some have even resorted to using meatball skewers to abort their babies,'' Mrs Sriprapha told a seminar on foreign labour discrimination yesterday. ''It's like we're killing people indirectly.''
She is worried more pregnant foreign women will use this unhealthy and unsafe method in exchange for the right to work in Thailand.
Gen Sonthi has ordered Samut Sakhon officials to impose a ban that demands pregnant labourers give birth in their own countries. His move is aimed at dealing with possible problems caused by claims for citizenship by children born to foreign mothers here.
Samut Sakhon, a neighbouring province to Bangkok, is among the destinations for migrant workers. So far, according to Gen Sonthi, there have been 2,000 newborns among the 100,000 alien workers in the province.
Most workers come from Burma, Laos, and Cambodia.
There are now five provinces that have adopted these harsher approaches to control the number of foreign workers. They are Samut Sakhon, Phangnga, Phuket, Rayong and Ranong provinces. The latter borders Burma in western Thailand.
The moves have drawn fierce reactions from human right activists and scholars. They said the government was taking the wrong approach to solving the problems of foreign workers.
''The government should find more appropriate ways to control their number and should think more of human rights,'' Mrs Sriprapha said.
From making a call on a mobile phone to driving cars and motorcycles, holding religious activities or giving birth to children, all are banned by officials for security reasons under a policy to control the number of alien workers, according to Sriprapha Petcharamesree, director of the Office of Human Rights Studies and Social Development at Mahidol University.
These bans have begun to have an unpleasant impact as pregnant workers have been reportedly having abortions by themselves to avoid being sent back to their own countries.
''Some have even resorted to using meatball skewers to abort their babies,'' Mrs Sriprapha told a seminar on foreign labour discrimination yesterday. ''It's like we're killing people indirectly.''
She is worried more pregnant foreign women will use this unhealthy and unsafe method in exchange for the right to work in Thailand.
Gen Sonthi has ordered Samut Sakhon officials to impose a ban that demands pregnant labourers give birth in their own countries. His move is aimed at dealing with possible problems caused by claims for citizenship by children born to foreign mothers here.
Samut Sakhon, a neighbouring province to Bangkok, is among the destinations for migrant workers. So far, according to Gen Sonthi, there have been 2,000 newborns among the 100,000 alien workers in the province.
Most workers come from Burma, Laos, and Cambodia.
There are now five provinces that have adopted these harsher approaches to control the number of foreign workers. They are Samut Sakhon, Phangnga, Phuket, Rayong and Ranong provinces. The latter borders Burma in western Thailand.
The moves have drawn fierce reactions from human right activists and scholars. They said the government was taking the wrong approach to solving the problems of foreign workers.
''The government should find more appropriate ways to control their number and should think more of human rights,'' Mrs Sriprapha said.
14 comments:
Oh well! It is time to build the fucken wall or a DMZ like the one in North Korea or the one just like the Isreal-Palistine between the Thaicong! It is time to cut off all economic tie and what have you...
Cambodia seriously needs a new economic model because AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave is dragging Cambodian people down the wrong destructive economic path because dirt poor Cambodian workers are treated no more than an animal!
Bullshit, PM Hun Sen doesn't have anything to do with it.
What has to be done is to deport all Ah khmer-Yuon criminals back to Vietnam where they belong. That should stop them (idiots) from bringing grenade into Thailand and spoil everything for everyone.
Ah chke 6:32Pm. ah thok eng ning hey chea ah youn ..ah eng ning snt bac to ah kontop youn country, ah kantop youn slave china.
Hey....Atmil 6:32...ah koun mee thork.Ah youn teang ach and sach teang chheam. Send your mother back tov ah thork.
Calm down guys. Alright, Ah Khmer-Yuons are not the only one who played with grenades here, but also Ah Khmer-Krohorms. Thus, we have to do something about Ah Khmer-Krohorm as well.
Are we happy now?
what is this mother fucker 8:41PM said I do not hear that ? The fucking Viet eaters ,please send some student to Israel to learn how to fight with that viet oppressors,Or Khmer people will extinct.
correction10:58PM= DOG eaters
That's hilarious ! A reaction on absuses of workers in Thailand evokes only insult at Vietnamese. How Vietnamese workers in Cambodia who themselves are abused by authorities, are connected with actions of Thai officials?
Some people need to get a life, they're only actions are to blame Vietnamese for all their own misdeeds. As far as I'm concerned Vietnamese do not blame anyone - they just work.
To 3:14 AM
The evils vietnameses can work in their own country and stop disturbing their neighbours.
Yeah, that is why we have to deport Ah Khmer-Yuon illegal immigrants back to their country (Vietnam). They are disturbing everyone in South East Asia.
8:07AM Vietnam spy,this mother fucker just show up and give us the crappy comment ,please do not pay attention on it.
Please let 8:07 express more his feeling, because he looks like Cambodian government spokenman. But he is not Khieu Kanhharith. From 8:07, we know more about real face of Cambodian government, and what they think about Khmer Kampuchea Krom.
Dear 8:07. If you are Khmer, please don't use "WE", because I am also Khmer Kandal and a memberof CPP too, but I am not in your group.
Yeah right, 3:49, Your lakaun bassac is not selling. Tell me another one.
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