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Thai royalist groups beat migrant worker leader at Bangkok UN protest
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The leader of a Myanmar migrant workers’ group was assaulted by members of two royalist groups outside the United Nations office in Bangkok on November 1, during a protest against Thailand’s Myanmar labour nationality verification centre.
Key facts
- The leader of a Myanmar migrant workers’ group was assaulted by members of two royalist groups outside the United Nations office in Bangkok on November 1, during a protest against Thailand’s Myanmar labour nationality verification centre.
- The Bright Future migrant worker group began its demonstration at about 11.30am, calling on the Thai government to consider closing the centre, also known as the certificate of identity (CI) centre.
- Footage of the incident published by Prachatai runs for four minutes 45 seconds and shows crowd control police in helmets and body armour already standing at the compound fence before the pushing started
- He also said Weera’s number 0 card, a Thai registration document for people without Thai nationality , had already been cancelled, and asked why he was still allowed to campaign in Thailand
Summary
The Bright Future migrant worker group began its demonstration at about 11.30am, calling on the Thai government to consider closing the centre, also known as the certificate of identity (CI) centre.
The group’s leader, Weera Saengthong, said the verification process imposed unnecessary costs on migrant workers and allowed Myanmar’s military government to extort money from them, according to the report.