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Thai PM holds talks on migrant abuse claims

Govt calls meeting of envoys from 4 countries including Bangladesh

AFP, Bangkok
Thailapd's new prime minister held talks with human rights groups yesterday as the government tried to stem damaging reports that it set hundreds of migrants adrift at sea with scant food and water.
Survivor accounts and reports from rights groups suggest up to 1,000 members of a Muslim minority from Myanmar washed up on Thai shores late last year, were detained and beaten, then towed out to sea in barges with no engines.
Deputy government spokesman Buddhipongse Punnakanta said Premier Abhisit Vejjajiva met members of the National Human Rights Commission and other rights officials on Monday to discuss the matter.
'The prime minister told the commission not to worry about the Rohingya case," he told reporters. "He assigned all the government authorities involved to keep him up-to-date
Hundreds of members of
the Rohingya ethnic group from western Myanmar near the Bangladesh border have been rescued in waters around India and Indonesia, but hundreds more are feared missingordead.
Indian coastguard officials said the migrants told of being beaten by Thai soldiers and sent to sea with no equipment and a few bags of rice.
Witnesses have reportedly said that some of the detainees were beaten within metres of foreign tourists on a remote Thai island off the coast of the self-styled "LandofSmiles".
Thailand's navy has denied the allegations, while Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban said that the defence minister had also been tasked with investigating the matter.
"I was primarily informed that the soldiers did not do that. There are several pictures... I believe we can find out the truth." he told reporters.
"I myself believe the officers did not do such a thing because Thai people have generosityand kindness."
Thailand’s foreign minister Kasit Piromya said he would call a meeting of ambassadors from Malaysia. Myanmar. India, Bangladesh and possibly Indonesia to discuss the issue.
"The ministry will coordinate with countries who have this minority group to meet and discuss in order to solve the problem urgently," he told reporters, adding that the human trafficking networks would also be addressed.
The Indian coast guard has since December rescued 446 of the boat people, most of them members of the Rohingya and a handful from Bangladesh.
Another 200 foreigners, again mostly Rohingya, were found off the northern tip of Indonesia's Sumatra island earlier this month.
Although the exact details of their treatment in Thailand and their onward journey remain unclear, human rights groups and the UN refugee agency have called on theThai government to immediately clarify the issue.