Posted on 08/22/2006 12:38:22 PM PDT by bwteim
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police said on Tuesday they had detained 169 North Koreans in a raid on a house in a Bangkok suburb after neighbors became suspicious of the number of people in it.
"This is the biggest single arrest of North Koreans" in Thailand, Police Major General Pramoj Pathumwong told Reuters.
The North Koreans, mostly women and children, had entered Thailand illegally and were staying in the house with 16 compatriots who had travel documents from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, police said.
The 16 had been due to leave on Tuesday night for South Korea, the favored destination for most of the trickle of refugees leaving the hard-line communist North, they said.
But the UNHCR had their documents, which police insisted on seeing, so the 16 missed their flight as they were kept at Immigration Police headquarters.
Including the 16, there were 128 women, 12 children under the age of 15 and 45 men, police said.
There was no immediate explanation on how so many North Koreans had managed to cram into a house with at least 10 bedrooms without Thai police being aware of them.
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I think anything over 100 next door to my place would trigger a call....
"Including the 16, there were 128 women, 12 children under the age of 15 and 45 men, police said."
It must be heck waiting on a bathroom.
Reminds me of "A Night At The Opera."
Why would people ever leave a "workers paradise" like North Korea?
I will run and hide now. :-)
Do they have indoor plumbing or outhouses there?
either way it must look like halftime at the football stadium, LOL
Thai Ping
LOL. Karr could easily have hidden among them, enjoying the close quarters.
Someone also posted clever Keyword above:
DEFINITERYNOTRONERY
Thailand?
Heck! Our Mexicans can beat that easy!...........
Thailand?
While channel surfing one Sunday afternoon in July, I came across a 1 hour video on CNN that was smuggled out of North Korea. It first aired last November. If it is ever shown again, I recommend it (which I don't do lightly)!
There are no such things as illegal human beings, right?
Poor people have a right for you to give them your money, right?
Illegals make great voters, right?
There is no crime, disease, overcrowded classrooms, overcrowded hospitals or other impacts from waves of illegal invaders, right?
Everyone has the right to be rich as J. SKerry if they can mooch off of rich silver-spoon fed lib inheritors.
... and a hard boild egg!
Not to mention crossing on foot 3000 miles of open China countryside one night unnoticed.
They had a bathroom?... This was Thailand..
Guess it shows that even living 15 plus persons per room is preferable to living in North Korea or some other totalitarian country.
This is far from seeing mexicans roll into the U.S. to gobble up our welfare, food stamps and emergency room treatment, or Western Saharans flood Spain. These folks are risking their lives to escape from hell on earth.
God be with them.
Owl_Eagle
If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
LOL I only clicked on this thread to see how many posts it took.
You beat me to it. If they can fit 30 in a small van, just think how many they could fit in a 10-bedroom house.
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