Academics and NGOs have denounced a decision by Thai officials to deport 126 ethnic minority children at Thairath Wittaya 6 School in Ang Thong to their home country Myanmar.
In early June, local complaints were filed to authorities that a large group of ethnic children had enrolled in Thairath Wittaya 6 School, which had only two teachers, one director and one administrative staff member. Many children told an interpreter they were taken from an Akha village on Doi Mae Salong in Chiang Rai province, a hill separating Thailand and Myanmar.
However, all 126 ethnic minority children at Thairath Wittaya 6 School in Ang Thong were sent back to Chiang Rai on Wednesday, where their parents must pick them up and return them to Myanmar. Ang Thong Immigration Police, Ang Thong Social Development and Human Security Provincial Office and other related agencies organised…
