PUBLISHED : 10 Nov 2023 at 05:00
The government need to issue emergency travel documents for most of the Thais awaiting repatriation in Myanmar as they do not have passports, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said on Thursday.
This is because their passports were confiscated by their employers, the ministry added.
The revelation was made by Ruj Thammamomgkol, the MFA Consular Department director-general, at a press conference on plans to rescue the 164 Thais.
All were duped into working for illegal call-centre gangs or were duped by human traffickers into working in Laukkaing in Myanmar’s Shan state.
He said the Consular Department had received a report from the Royal Thai Embassy in Yangon that previously there were 162 Thais,…
