Group urges PM to help Moroccans held by gang

A resource reported on Sunday that an organization fighting human smuggling has written to Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin to request assistance for 21 Moroccan nationals who have fallen victim to a scheming crew operating on the Thai-Myanmar border.

According to Exodus Road, the Moroccan Embassy in Bangkok sought help from various firms, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Royal Thai Army, the Department of Special Investigation, and the Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok, through an official email on May 17.

Exodus Road, however, claimed there has n’t been any progress since then, so it has now made the decision to approach the PM for assistance.

According to the source, the Moroccans were lured by a Chinese transnational crime syndicate, who told them they would be working at an e- commerce business in Thailand, with a starting salary of about$ 1, 000 ( 36, 700 baht ) per month.

Nevertheless, shortly after arriving in Thailand in February, the party was taken to Hpa Lu community in Myanmar’s Myawaddy area, which is located across from Phob Phra region in Tak state.

That, the source said, the patients are kept in a place, where they are constantly tortured. They were likewise told to ask their friends for$ 6, 000- 8, 000 ( 220, 000- 295, 000 baht ) in compensation, or risk being sold off to another group.

Five patients managed to get their family to pay the ransom in April, but they remain in the group’s prison, the source said.

Exodus Road even wrote a letter to Fair Party MP Kannavee Suebsang, who had formerly assisted in the removal of migrants trapped in Laukkaing, Shan condition, when it was besieged by insurgent forces.

In a Twitter post on Friday, Mr. Kannavee claimed that the Chinese-run gang likewise held 41 Sri Lankans hostage in Myanmar in addition to the Moroccan people.

He urged the government to launch a rescue mission using the National Referral Mechanism ( NRM ) method and the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security, who would assume responsibility.

Mr Kannavee said several gangs are operating out of” No Man’s Land” straight across the border from Tak’s Phob Phra city, due to the lack of regulation protection in the area and easy access to Thailand’s telecommunication infrastructure.