Wednesday 30 January 2013

Rohingya Report - video blog, insane torture of 64 families in Maungdaw

I've decided to start video blogging, out of desperation really. I'm watching this genocide unfold like a nightmare and still everyone is reporting it as 'intercommunal violence' when history and facts reveal it is clearly well organised ethnic cleansing with authority involvement.

Every day I'm asking myself what else I can do to help these people. I figure since I have a webcam and a voice and freedom of speech that I haven't fully been using all the resources available to me, so I just have to give this a try.

Excuse my blunders, I'm no professional, got not experience, but I'm a quick learner so stick with me I'll try get better with time.

I wasn't sure what to begin with. I'm blogging about the Rohingya not me so I decided not to introduce myself other than give my name - I guess a personal intro about me can come much later when the situation is not so critical.

I chose this story that I read on the Rohingya Blogger website yesterday, that I found truly appalling, 64 families that were insanely tortured in the township of Maungdaw for refusing to register as illegal Bengali immigrants. I believe this is worthy of investigation, but sadly another atrocity no doubt about to be buried with all the rest taking place that hardly get a glance.

Thursday 3 January 2013

Rohingya Boatpeople

Just how many Rohingya people are being forced out to sea? The list of reports below should give you an idea of the scale of this humanitarian disaster.

Rohingya have clearly been shipped out of Burma for years now, often into slavery, but there has been a marked increase over the past few months and especially weeks. My friend tells me the recent increase is due to persecution, threats and starvation. The Rohingya people are really faced with no other option but to risk this perilous voyage. But the consequences are often tragic. Here are some photos of Rohingya bodies that were recovered from the sea, taken on 27th July 2012.



Phuket Boatpeople Families 'Already Back at Sea on Another Vessel'       

By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison   
Thursday, January 3, 2013       
PHOTO ALBUM Efforts by a human rights organisation to prevent Phuket's boatpeople children from beginning their journey all over again have failed. They are now back at sea, in another boat. More »   

Save Phuket Boat Families Today, Rights Group Tells Thai Government       

By Human Rights Watch Media Release   
Thursday, January 3, 2013       
PHOTO ALBUM The New York-based Human Rights Watch has pleaded with the Thai Government to save the Phuket boat families who have been trucked to an uncertain fate More »   

Phuket Boat Families Trucked Back to Burma Border in Tears       

By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison   
Wednesday, January 2, 2013       
PHOTO ALBUM The group of Rohingya boatpeople who ran out of fuel near Phuket are being trucked back towards Burma where they started their risky voyage a fortnight ago. More »   

Phuket Boat Kids Brought Ashore as Future is Debated       

By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison   
Wednesday, January 2, 2013       
Latest A boatload of Rohingya families including children as young as three years old was brought ashore after officials concluded they would be at risk if their voyage continued. More »   

450 Rohingya held in Malaysia after they are forced to swim to safety

January 1, 2013
AP

Will These Phuket Boat Children End Up For Sale by Human Traffickers?       

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Tuesday, January 1, 2013       
PHOTO ALBUM Families with young children are now fleeing ethnic cleansing in Burma, with them facing the likelihood of being trafficked by people smugglers. Will Asean finally do something? More »   

Phuket Stop for Boatpeople: Rohingya Children Now Fleeing 'Certain Death' in Burma       

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Tuesday, January 1, 2013       
Photo Album A boatload of Rohingya, fleeing persecution in Burma, were ''helped on'' towards Malaysia off Phuket with women and children as young as three among the 74 on board. More »

Sailing Past Holiday Phuket, Record Numbers of 10,000 Boatpeople Making a Shameful Exodus       

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Monday, December 31, 2012       
Latest As many as 10,000 Rohingya may have sailed south already with thousands more expected to make their way past Phuket, looking for sanctuary and a new life. More »   

Phuket Hopes and Dreams, Suffocated in a Death Truck       

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Friday, December 28, 2012       
Latest back in 2008, Phuketwan had just begun when a team of journalists headed north to Ranong to see for themselves what had happened in a Burmese ''death truck.'' More »   

Rohingya Trucked North: Checkpoint Exposes 127 in Minivan Convoy   

By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison   
Thursday, December 27, 2012   
Latest A checkpoint in southern Thailand has apprehended 127 Rohingya in a convoy of five minivans and returned them to a port on the Thai-Burma border. More »

Humanitarian crisis for Burma's eternal outsiders
Lindsay Murdoch
December 26, 2012

Phuket NY Countdown: The Saddest Story   

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Sunday, December 23, 2012   
NY 2013 Countdown The Rohingya of Burma stand out in 2012, as in 2009, as the story of the year. And once again, the ethnic cleansing reflects just as poorly on Burma and its neighbors. More »   

Why Singapore Lacks a Real Heart       

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Sunday, December 16, 2012       
News Analysis Two vessels carrying shipwreck survivors were banned from entering Singapore this week on a technicality. The real reason? Singapore has no heart. More »   

Singapore Turns Away Boatpeople       

By Lindsay Murdoch, Fairfax Media correspondent   
Thursday, December 13, 2012       
Latest Singapore forces a ship laden with survivors of a sinking to sail on in search of a less heartless destination by refusing to consider allowing boatpeople to land on their island. More »

Boatpeople Rescue Ship Still Stranded Off Singapore   

By Lindsay Murdoch, Fairfax Media Correspondent   
Wednesday, December 12, 2012   
Latest Singapore's refusal to allow a ship carrying recently rescued boatpeople to enter has raised concerns by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. More »   

Singapore Rejects Vessel That Saved 40 Boatpeople From Drowning       

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Tuesday, December 11, 2012       
Latest In an action that reveals a distinct lack of compassion, Singapore has refused to allow a vessel carrying 40 rescued boatpeople to dock in the prosperous island nation. More »   

Hundreds of Rohingya Held Captive as Three Boats Land on Thai Islands       

By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison   
Monday, December 10, 2012       
Latest Three boatloads of Rohingya have landed on islands off the coast of Thailand in quick succession, according to reliable sources. The fate of the men and boys is not known. More »   

Fleeing Rohingya Captive on Thai Border       

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Sunday, December 9, 2012   
Latest Larger numbers of Rohingya are fleeing Burma by boat, sailing past Phuket into the hands of people-traffickers who demand a fee for entry to Malaysia.The choice is slavery at sea. More »

Children Face Malnutrition in Burma Camps, Unicef Report Confirms   

By Phuketwan/Media Release   
Thursday, November 29, 2012   
Latest Ethnic cleansing that verges on genocide is taking place in Burma, north of Phuket, with thousands of children malnourished and teenage boys taking to the sea to escape. More »

Rohingya Pond Poisoned in Extermination Bid, Says Phuket Source   

By Chutima Sidasathian   
Thursday, November 22, 2012   
UPDATE A pond in a Rohingya village has been poisoned as part of an attempt to exterminate the Muslim minority, a Phuket source says, despite a plea from US President barack Obama. More »

Boatpeople 'Destined for Factories or Trawlers'   

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Monday, November 12, 2012   
Latest A group of 112 extremely young Rohingya boys and men who landed in Thailand at the weekend were ''deported'' within 36 hours, a euphemism, an activist says, for slave labor. More »

Rohingya Boat Lands in Thailand, 112 Men Arrested North of Phuket   

By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison   
Sunday, November 11, 2012   
PHOTO ALBUM It's feared more Rohingya boats are likely to follow a group of 112 who were forced to come ashore north of Phuket in Thailand and arrested when their boat developed a hole. More »   

Rohingya Boatload 'Helped On' by Burmese Navy, Says Source   

By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison   
Friday, November 9, 2012       
Latest A boatload of 120 Rohingya men and boys has been ''helped on'' by the Burmese Navy close to the border with Thailand, a usually reliable source has told Phuketwan. More »   

Rohingya Refugees 'Lost at Sea' Attempting Perilous Voyage Past Phuket       

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Wednesday, November 7, 2012       
Latest A second boatload of Rohingya refugees is reported to have sunk while trying to flee south past Phuket to begin a new life in Malaysia. More »   

Rohingya Boatpeople 'Helped On' at Sea off Thailand: More Likely to Flee       

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Monday, October 29, 2012       
Latest Coincidentally with the fresh wave of ethnic cleansing in Burma has come news of the interception of a boatload of Rohingya who were ''helped on'' by the Thai Navy. More »   

Evidence of Ethnic Cleansing Comes Out of the Blue in Burma       

By Alan Morison   
Monday, October 29, 2012       
Latest Satellite before and after photographs taken from the skies above Burma have established without doubt that hundreds of Rohingya have been burned from their homes in Burma. More »   

Mother Died at Sea in Childbirth, According to Fleeing Rohingya Sources

By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison   
Sunday, October 28, 2012   
Latest Unconfirmed reports are reaching Phuketwan of boatloads of Rohingya fleeing mobs as homes as razed in Burma, and a mother's death in childbirth on one vessel. More »   

Phuket Plan Set for Six Andaman Provinces to 'Help On' Boatpeople       

By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison   
Tuesday, September 11, 2012       
Latest With the sailing season drawing near, the Navy and maritime officials in all Andaman provinces have drawn up a plan to keep the unwanted boatpeople from landing. More »

Boatpeople Will Flee as Asean Ignores Burma's Rohingya Racism   

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Monday, September 10, 2012       
News Analysis Phuket awaits more boatpeople sailing south as Asean dithers and Burma retains a racist outlook that drives unwanted Rohingya into the sea. More »

Phuket Awaits Boats Amid 'Dirty War' Talk       

By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison   
Monday, September 3, 2012       
News Analysis The Rohingya have never been involved in Thailand's separatist struggle, an expert says as monks march and pressure mounts to force the unwanted Muslims into the sea. More »

Saudis Back Rohingya Aid: Phuket May Be Spared Armada of Boatpeople   

By Chutima Sidasathian   
Sunday, August 12, 2012   
Latest Burma's acceptance of aid from Saudi Arabia for Muslims and Buddhists displaced in sectarian violence may mean fewer boatpeople are forced tob flee past Phuket. More »   

Holiday Coast Ready to Repel Rohingya Boats       

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Monday, July 30, 2012   
Latest With world attention centring once again on the persecution of Rohingya in Burma, the military and volunteers along the coast north of Phuket are ready to ''help on'' more boatpeople. More »

Phuket and Thai Military Ready for the Rohingya Ride of Their Lives   

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Friday, July 20, 2012       
News Analysis Shocking ethnic brutality north of Thailand in Burma is likely to convert to a mass exodus as Rohingya are expected take to the boats as would-be refugees in record numbers. More »   

More Rohingya Will Flee the New Apartheid       

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Friday, May 25, 2012       
News Analysis Freedom in Burma may mean just the opposite for the Rohingya if racists feel they have the right to become more outspoken. Violence is the fear now. More »

Punishment Fails to Halt Large Numbers of Boatpeople Sailing Past Phuket   

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Sunday, March 25, 2012   
Latest Revelation by the Thai military of the numbers of Rohingya boatpeople being apprehended or ''helped on'' have been welcomed by a key non-government aid agency. More »

Thailand Lists Boatpeople Arrested or Assisted Along Phuket Holiday Coast   

By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison   
Sunday, March 18, 2012   
Latest In the first clear indication of Thailand's policy and the number of boatpeople involved, the Thai military has provided figures that indicate thousands of Rohingya are sailing in hope of new lives. More »

Phuket 'Command Post' Plan to Protect Andaman Coastline   

By Chutima Sidasathian   
Wednesday, March 14, 2012   
Latest The Navy announces plans to extend community ''command posts'' along the Andaman coast north and south of Phuket to control drugs, illegal immigration and smuggling. More »

Phuket's Boatpeople: Gone Within 24 Hours   

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Monday, February 27, 2012   
Latest Within less than 24 hours, Phuket's latest boatpeople have gone. Thailand continues to carry out a questionable policy to deal with boatpeople the only way it knows how - in secret. More »

Hungry, Thirsty and Deprived, Phuket's Silent Boatpeople Demand Answers from the World   

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Sunday, February 26, 2012   
News Analysis The latest boatload of Rohingya to arrive on Thailand's shores land on the holiday playground of Phket and raise once more moral questions the world has so far failed to answer. More »

Phuket Landing! Rohingya Boatpeople Captured, Police Hunt Others in Southern Phuket   

By Alan Morison and Sert Tongdee   
Sunday, February 26, 2012   
Latest A boatload of Rohingya landed in southern Phuket and have spread out across the island looking for food and water, with Phuket police in pursuit. More »

Rohingya Remain Unwanted as Secrecy Covers Treatment of Boatpeople   

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Friday, February 24, 2012   
News Analysis The detention of Rohingya boatpeople for three years in India is one symptom of the region's inability to deal with the issue and its resort to secret support for trafficking. More »   

Rohingya Boatpeople Held South of Phuket   

By Chutima Sidasathian and Nussara Lem   
Thursday, February 9, 2012   
Latest The apprehension of a Rohingya boat containing 85 men and boys has been filmed as a succession of vessels continues to head south past Phuket to Malaysia. More »

Prison Doors Open in Burma, But No Sign of Hope for Rohingya       

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Friday, January 13, 2012       
Latest Human rights groups have welcomed Burma's freeing of more key political prisoners but the mistreated Rohingya remain victims of a regional conspiracy of silence. More »

More Boatpeople Handed to Army North of Phuket: Rohingya Riddle Deepens   

By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison   
Sunday, December 4, 2011       
Latest A second boatload of Rohingya men and boys has been handed directly to the Thai Army after their apprehension near a fishing port north of Phuket. More »   

Where Are Boatpeople? Answers Wanted   

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Tuesday, November 29, 2011       
Latest Human Rights Watch calls on the Thai Government to reveal the whereabouts of a group of boatpeople who landed north of Phuket, and explain its Rohingya policy. More »   

International Concern Mounts as Boatpeople Vanish North of Phuket       

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Saturday, November 26, 2011       
PHOTO ALBUM First photos confirm the arrest of a boatload of Rohingya north of Phuket but international concern mounts with reports they are now in the hands of the Army. More »   

More Boatpeople Sailing Past Phuket, say Reports       

By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison   
Wednesday, November 23, 2011       
Latest Fresh reports confirm another boatload of would-be refugees off Thailand's coast and one source says eight more vessels have put to sea in recent days. More »

Phuket Likely to See More Rohingya Boatpeople This Sailing Season   

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Saturday, October 8, 2011   
News Analysis The arrival on the Malaysian island of Penang of the first boatpeople of the ''sailing season'' means Phuket can expect visitors whose fate will remain just as uncertain on dry land. More »   

'Thais Tortured Us,' Say Rescued Rohingya Boatpeople       

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Sunday, August 21, 2011       
Latest Allegations of torture and human rights abuses by the Thai military have been made by Rohingya boatpeople in India, providing an international test for Thailand's new government. More »   

Phuket Boatpeople Trucked Out as Others Are Loaded into Longtails and 'Given 4000 Baht to Go'       

By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison   
Friday, August 19, 2011       
Latest Mystery surrounds the sudden shift north of Phuket's boatpeople prisoners as others are given 4000 baht each as they board longtails . . . destined for who knows where. More »   

Phuket-Bound Burmese Among 55 Nabbed by Navy Patrol       

By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison   
Tuesday, August 9, 2011   
Latest A Royal Thai Navy patrol boat intercepts a trafficker on a longtail and captures his cargo of 55 Burmese, some bound for Phuket. The interception occurs in Rohingya waters. More »   

Phuket Just a Dream for Arrested Boatload of 44 Burmese, Ripped Off by People Trafficker   

By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison   
Monday, July 18, 2011       
Latest A people-trafficker demanded 20,000 baht each from 42 Burmese to attempt a perilous boat journey to a better life on Phuket. Now the boatload are heading home, much poorer. More »   

Phuket's Boatpeople Still Being Held       

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Saturday, July 9, 2011       
Latest A group of Rohingya boatpeople, including young boys, is still being held in cramped condition after five months on Phuket as concerns grow for their wellbeing. More »

Phuket Boatpeople 'Vanish' from Phang Nga       

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Monday, March 7, 2011
Latest A source confirms that 35 Rohingya men and boys from a boatload of would be refugees that landed on Phuket have now been moved - and a UN agency would like to know where. More

Rohingya Riddle Grows as Thailand Denies Pushback       

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Tuesday, February 15, 2011       
UPDATE Are they Rohingya, Bangladeshis or illegal immigrants from Myanmar? The mystery of 91 boatpeople who found themselves washed up starving in Indian territory grows deeper, despite denials. More »   

Children Being Held Among Phuket, Phang Nga Boatpeople       

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Saturday, February 12, 2011   
Latest With concern mounting that Thailand may have restarted its reprehensible push backs of Rohingya refugees, we publish the names and ages of those being held on Phuket and in Phang Nga. More »

UNHCR Given Access to Thailand's Captive Boatpeople

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Thursday, February 10, 2011   
Latest As concern mounts about whether one group of boatpeople have been pushed back in peril at sea by Thai authorities, the UN's refugee agency gains permission to access 135 others. More »

Be Honest About Missing Boatpeople, Rights Group Tells Thailand: BBC Reports 'Pushback' Claims   

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Thursday, February 10, 2011   
Latest With a boatload of starving men cast away on remote Indian islands, Human Rights Watch says the Thai Government should be honest about boatpeople arrivals - and departures. More »

Thailand's Rohingya Vanish: Spectre of Pushbacks Nightmare       

By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison   
Tuesday, February 8, 2011       
Breaking News UPDATE More than half the Rohingya boatpeople who arrived on the Andaman coast in recent weeks are unaccounted for by Immigration authorities, raising the spectre of the notorious ''pushbacks.'' More »   

Phuket Boatpeople: UNHCR Renews Call for Access       

By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison   
Thursday, February 3, 2011       
Latest The perilous journey down the coast may be over for boatpeople fleeing persecution in Burma but being apprehended in Thailand does not mean the danger is over. More »   

Children Being Held Among Phuket, Phang Nga Boatpeople       

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Saturday, February 12, 2011       
Latest With concern mounting that Thailand may have restarted its reprehensible push backs of Rohingya refugees, we publish the names and ages of those being held on Phuket and in Phang Nga. More »

UNHCR Given Access to Thailand's Captive Boatpeople       

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Thursday, February 10, 2011       
Latest As concern mounts about whether one group of boatpeople have been pushed back in peril at sea by Thai authorities, the UN's refugee agency gains permission to access 135 others. More »   

Be Honest About Missing Boatpeople, Rights Group Tells Thailand: BBC Reports 'Pushback' Claims       

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Thursday, February 10, 2011       
Latest With a boatload of starving men cast away on remote Indian islands, Human Rights Watch says the Thai Government should be honest about boatpeople arrivals - and departures. More »

Thailand's Rohingya Vanish: Spectre of Pushbacks Nightmare       

By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison   
Tuesday, February 8, 2011       
Breaking News UPDATE More than half the Rohingya boatpeople who arrived on the Andaman coast in recent weeks are unaccounted for by Immigration authorities, raising the spectre of the notorious ''pushbacks.'' More »   

Phuket Boatpeople: UNHCR Renews Call for Access       

By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison   
Thursday, February 3, 2011       
Latest The perilous journey down the coast may be over for boatpeople fleeing persecution in Burma but being apprehended in Thailand does not mean the danger is over. More »   

Phuket Immigration Denies Rohinga 'Repatriation'   

By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison   
Wednesday, February 2, 2011   
Latest Immigration authorities on Phuket say that no decision has been made yet about the future of a boatload of Rohingya captured on the island. Reports of 'repatriation' appear premature. More »   

Rip-Offs and Rohingya: No End to Phuket Surprises   

By Alan Morison   
Tuesday, February 1, 2011       
News Analysis With Rohingya and ripoffs, there's just no end to what can be encountered on a Phuket beach. The big question remains: what will Thailand's refugee policy be next? More »   

More Phuket Boatpeople! About 68 Rohingya Land on Phuket in Two Groups   

By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison   
Tuesday, February 1, 2011   
Breaking News UPDATE About 68 Rohingya in two groups have been apprehended after the first boatpeople waded ashore on a quiet part of Phuket near a luxury five-star resort. More »

UN Calls for 'Protection' Access to Rohingya   

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Wednesday, January 26, 2011   
Latest The fate of two groups of Rohingya in custody and at least two more groups who may be on the water sparks a UN call for access to determine the status and assure the safety of the men. More »

Second Rohingya Boat Lands South of Phuket   

By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison   
Tuesday, January 25, 2011   
Boatpeople crisis A second vessel carrying stateless Rohingya brings to more than 150 the number who have landed on Thailand's Andaman coast in a new wave of arrivals. More »

Second Boat Ashore on Andaman Coast: More Refugees Sailing South   

By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison   
Monday, January 24, 2011   
Latest The boatpeople ''pushbacks'' that plunged Thailand into a human rights crisis are echoing as a second vessel carrying Rohingya would be refugees lands on the Andaman coast. More »

Rohingya Boat, 91 Held on Andaman Coast: Seven More Boats May Be at Sea   

By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison   
Saturday, January 22, 2011   
Breaking News A boatload of would be Rohingya refugees is apprehended on Thailand's Andaman coast, and Phuketwan believes as many as seven more boats could be sailing south. More »

Boat People Sailing with Phuket High Season   

By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison   
Saturday, November 27, 2010   
Latest Rohingya boat people are expected to sail for salvation again this high season, aiming for a coastline that simultaneously appeals to both the world's richest and most deprived citizens. More »

Burmese Accuse Thai Officials of People Trafficking       

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Tuesday, August 31, 2010   
Latest Burmese caught working illegally in Phuket and along the Andaman coast are taken back to the border town of Ranong, where two Burmese say officials are involved in people trafficking. More »

Boatpeople off Thailand: Conflicting Accounts Grow       

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Monday, March 22, 2010       
Breaking News Conflicting reports surround Thailand's treatment of 93 Rohingya boatpeople. A Royal Thai Navy spokesman says another group may already be being held in Thailand. More »
   

Phuket Bypass: Navy Denies 'Chasing' Boatpeople       

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Saturday, March 13, 2010       
Latest Tourist sightseers and refugees needing food and water have become the unusual mix off Phuket and the Andaman coast again as the Navy politely sends boatpeople on their way. More »   

Phuket Team Scoops Top Award for Reporting       

By Phuketwan Reporter   
Thursday, March 11, 2010       
Latest Phuketwan has picked up a top news award as part of the team that broke the Scoop of the Year 2009. Coincidentally, the award comes amid reports of boatpeople near Phuket. More »   

Phuket's Big Puzzle: Where Are The Boatpeople?       

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Tuesday, March 9, 2010       
UPDATE Navy activity today lends credence to reports that an unusual vessel, possibly a boatload of would be refugees, may be at sea close to the popular tourist destination of Phuket. More »   

Thai 'Fear Factor' Makes Boatpeople Fly Now       

By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison   
Monday, December 14, 2009       
Latest More would be refugees are now flying with false passports rather than rsik a ''pushback'' by the Thai military or endless detention, according to an NGO. More »   

Phuket's New Navy Chief Wary of Boatpeople       

By Chutima Sidasathian   
Tuesday, October 6, 2009       
Latest The Andaman coast has a new navy area command leader, and he has a watching brief for boatpeople and pirates. Sea rescues are another prime concern. More »   

'Withered' Rohingya Rescued from Ranong       

By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison   
Wednesday, August 19, 2009       
Latest Rohingya boatpeople have been evacuated from Ranong Immigration detention centre. A doctor says conditions there were so bad that two men died and more were endangered. More »   

Rohingha Deaths in Custody: Human Rights Blow       

By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison   
Tuesday, August 18, 2009       
Photo Album Rohingya boatpeople are moved from Ranong after a second death in custody and failing health spotlight the official secrecy that surrounds issues of basic human rights. More »   

Teenager's Death Highlights Plight of Rohingya   

By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison   
Thursday, July 16, 2009       
Latest Still stateless, the fate of a group of Rohingya boat people remains uncertain on the eve of human rights talks on Phuket. One has died, others seek escape. More »   

Burma's Secret Exodus: The Illegal Road to Patong       

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Monday, June 22, 2009       
Latest News Phuket and Patong especially rely on large numbers of Burmese workers. Now, as a registration deadline draws near, authorities are cracking down on secret voyagers. More »   

Phuket Still Linked to Slavery and Trafficking       

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian   
Friday, June 12, 2009       
Latest The release of a brochure on people trafficking highlights the part Phuket played in a notorious smuggling incident. Not a lot has changed since then. More »   

Immigration Nabs 'Phuket-Trail People Smuggler'       

By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison   
Wednesday, May 27, 2009       
Photo Album Immigration officers say they have arrested a leading people trafficker as he prepared today to smuggle more than 30 Burmese laborers to Phuket. More »