The latest edition of my #SecretSiam newsetter is about the tragic history of refugees in Thailand. For decades, the military has violated the human rights of people seeking asylum on Thai soil. 1/8 secretsiam.news/p/the-tragic-h…
The latest developments on the border, with troops forcing Karen people fleeing airstrikes to go back to Myanmar, and PM Prayut and foreign ministry spokesman @SangratTanee lying about it, are typical of how successive regimes have dealt with refugees vimeo.com/532734572 2/8
One of the worst ever incidents was in 1979 when the Thai army forced 45,000 Cambodian refugees down a cliff and through minefields near Preah Vihear, leading to thousands of deaths. 3/8 
The Thai navy routinely pushed Vietnamese boats back out to sea in the 1970s and 1980s, and refused to crack down on Thai pirates who were robbing, raping and murdering the refugees aboard. Over the past decade, Rohingya boats have also been routinely towed back to sea. 4/8
Another recent egregious human rights violation was the refoulement to China of 109 Uyghur refugees who had already been offered asylum in Turkey. Chinese security agents hooded and handcuffed them and dragged them onto a plane in July 2015. 5/8 vimeo.com/532574891
This incident led directly to the bombing of the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok in August 2015, which killed 20 people and wounded more than 160. The Thai regime has been doing its best to deny any connection between the two events, which is another lie. 6/8
The UNHCR in Bangkok has consistently been useless and "goodwill ambassador" Praya Lundberg has openly praised Prayut while refusing to comment on the regime's abduction of Wanchalearm Satsaksit in Cambodia 7/8
The full story is on the Secret Siam website. Please subscribe and read! 🙏 8/8 secretsiam.news/p/the-tragic-h…
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