Thai PM orders thorough probe on Rohingya migrants in Thai South

BANGKOK, June 13 (TNA) - Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-ocha has ordered the Royal Thai Police and other relevant agencies to conduct a thorough investigation into a case of over 60 Rohingya boat people found near an island in Satun Province in the Thai South earlier this week. Deputy Government Spokesman Lieutenant General Werachon Sukondhapatipak told journalists of the prime minister's order at Bangkok's Government House on Thursday, two days after a patrol squad of the Royal Thai Navy found a fishing boat with a group of 65 Rohingyas near the Rawi Island in the compound of the Tarutao National Park in Satun. The deputy spokesman stated that the prime minister has instructed the thorough probe to see whether there are Thai people or officials behind the case of the illegal Rohingya migration into the Thai South. The deputy spokesman said that the Thai premier has also ordered a local public health authority to provide medical check-ups for the 65 Rohingya men, women and children based on the humanitarian principle. The deputy spokesman quoted the prime minister as insisting on the Thai government's stance on working together with the international community to concretely solve the problem of the Rohingya migration in the region, witnessed by a Thai command center has been set up in charge of conducting patrols and providing humanitarian assistance to irreular migrants in the Indian Ocean. The deputy spokesman, meanwhile, called on people to also provide tip-offs to relevant authorities on suspected cases of illegal migrations into Thailand, including the suspicious involvement of government officials. (TNA)