Shan migrants in northern Thailand have become the targets of an - TopicsExpress



          

Shan migrants in northern Thailand have become the targets of an online hate campaign and systematic police crackdown, after news spread of a series of gang-related attacks in Chiang Mai, Thailand. While the police insist they were not targeting the Shan people “but everyone who acts lawlessly”, rights activists say it has turned into a witch-hunt against migrant workers, who had nothing to do with the violence. Shan “looking” migrants travelling on motorbikes are being stopped by police and interrogated about their ethnicity. “The first thing they ask you is: are you Shan?” Toom Mawk Harn from the Migrant Assistance Programme (MAP Foundation) told DVB. “If you say yes they will arrest you.”
Posted on: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 07:58:31 +0000

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