A Cambodia newspaper has reported that Muslims from Cambodia were among unidentified bodies found in mass graves in southern border provinces of Thailand, a senior police office said Monday (June 19). Pol Lt Col Subin Boonlet, deputy commander of Tambon Klongluek police station, said the Cambodian paper had reported that Cambodian Muslims should be among some 500 unidentified bodies found in Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat. | That's a fair number of bodies. I haven't heard anything about this before |
Subin said the report would prompt Thai immigration officials to be more strict about Cambodian Muslims who want to enter Thailand. | Moving to the future homeland in the south? |
Subin said Cambodian Muslims, who travelled to Thailand, now tried to get dressed like most people to avoid catching attention of Thai authorities.
Captain Salitpong Kaewpila, commander of a company of the 12th task force in Sa Kaew, said 2,317 Cambodian Muslims had entered Thailand legally during the past three months and only 171 of them had returned to their country. Salitpong said Thai officials were not sure whether the rest of them were still in Thailand or have crossed to Malaysia. |