Pattaya Immigration Police Arrest 100 Beggars From Burma, Laos and Cambodia

June 22, 2012
Pattaya Daily News

Immigration police arrested about 97 immigrant beggars who were roaming all over Pattaya. Begging at all major tourist attractions. All of them had illegally entered the kingdom.

PATTAYA – June 20 , 2012 [PDN]; at 15:30, Pol.Col.Chaiyot Warakjunkiart-director of Chonburi Immigration Police, Pol.Lt.Col. Rattapong Tiasud-vice director, Pol.Lt.Col. Saroj Jitsanguan-inspector,Pol.Col.Thanusilp Duangkaewngam-vice inspector and the investigation team of Chonburi Immigration Police and staffs from the Shelter for Children and Women an Family said that they had arrested 97 beggars Cambodians ,Burmese and Laotians who had entered to Thailand illegally: 43 were men, 18 were women, and including 39 beggars, 8 were men, 14 were women, 11 boys and 6 girls.

[Cambodian] Beggars and Hobos Cleared From Pattaya

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zel2GPjnbtI

Begging gang and children found at Thai border market

Tuesday, Apr 24, 2012
By Chatchawal Sopaphan and Wisit Chuanpipatpong
The Nation/Asia News Network

THAILAND - Immigration Police yesterday rounded up 26 Cambodians - most of them young children between the ages of 2 and 11 - at the Rong Kleu border market in Sa Kaew's Aranyaprathet district.

Police suspect a gang was preparing to take the Cambodians to beg on the streets of Bangkok and Pattaya.

Following a tip-off that beggars who had worked in Bangkok and Pattaya would be sent back to Thailand after spending the traditional Khmer New Year in Cambodia, authorities went to a reported meeting point at the market and arrested a disabled man, three women, nine boys and 13 girls. Police recorded their information and contacted Cambodian authorities.

28 illegal Cambodians arrested

2/04/2012
Bangkok Post

SA KAEO -- Police arrested 28 Cambodians, including young children, who were smuggled into Thailand and found hiding in a forest grove, and say they planned to work as beggars for a gang operating in Pattaya and Bangkok over Songkran.

Police found the 28 Cambodians, including 13 young children, hiding in the trees in Sa Kaeo's Aranyaprathet district on Monday. They had no travel documents.

This morning, police were informed by Ranger Task Force 1206 that Cambodian beggars were being smuggled into Thailand. There were many young children among. It was believed the traffickers intended to use them to beg for money in Pattaya and in Bangkok during the Songkran festival.

Reports of abuse in Thailand

Monday, 26 March 2012
The Phnom Penh Post

A government official yesterday refuted Thai media reports of a Cambodian beggar whose tongue had been cut, saying investigations had found this to not be the case.

Referring to the case of an 11-year-old boy forced to beg in Pattaya, Ten Borany, deputy director of the anti-human trafficking and juvenile protection department at the Ministry of Interior, said Cambodian anti-trafficking police found the boy had been mistreated but not mutilated, and was residing at a social affairs centre in Thailand after being rescued.

Thai news media recently carried reports of other Cambodian victims who had been rescued from similar scenarios.

Cambodian Beggars Rounded Up by [Thai] Tourist Police [in Pattaya]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7b-Qpii_So

Where is the Seven-Year-Old Child Who Sold Flowers to Phuket Tourists, and What is Her Future?

Tuesday, February 7, 2012
By Nussara Lem and Alan Morison
Phuketwan.com (Thailand)

PHUKET: A seven-year-old flower seller for tourists who was taken into custody on Phuket is now in Bangkok - and her exact whereabouts, as well as her future, is unknown.

The girl had a black eye and bruises of unknown cause on her body, alarming officials. And she initially told authorities that she was from Vietnam.

But now, officials believe that she is from Cambodia. Exactly what will happen to her next is being hidden under a blanket of bureaucratic obfuscation.

According to Chuanchom Jantawong of the Phuket office of the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security, the girls had been selling flowers to tourists in Patong along beach road and in the Soi Bangla walking street.

It's known that the girl was picked up late last month after a ''good citizen'' called and alerted officials to her presence. But then, the girl's story became unclear.

Illegal Cambodian beggars sent home

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tJLSESOoac

These Cambodians are waiting to be deported back to their home country.

Thursday, 15 September 2011
By PMTV
Pattaya Mail

On the afternoon of September the 12th a press conference was held by Chonburi’s immigration department regarding illegal Cambodian beggars.

Nine men, eighteen women and twenty three Cambodian children had been rounded up after it came to light that they had entered the country illegally and after the numerous complaints about children begging across the city.

The Cambodians will now be sent back to their country and the Immigration Department at the Thai-Cambodia border have been notified to be more vigilant.

Pattaya Tourist Police arrest Cambodian Beggars

Tourist Police arrest Cambodian Beggars and suspected drug dealer

Wednesday 16th January 2008
Pattaya News

As part of their regular duties on Walking Street, the Tourist Police based on Walking Street are responsible for clearing the streets of beggars and other undesirables. In the early hours of Wednesday Morning, a group of Tourist Police Volunteers were on patrol on Pattaya Beach Road in front of the Royal Garden Plaza when they spotted a Thai man acting in a suspicious manner. He was approached and searched by a Tourist Police Officer who arrived moments later. He was found to be carrying 7 packets of the class 5 drug Marijuana and a quantity of Thai cash and US Currency. The Officers also detained a number of illegal Cambodian street beggars who will be deported at the earliest opportunity.