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As in the Mediterranean with Libyan and Syrian refugees - the countries of Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia are doing it the wrong way. They need to GO TO THE SOURCE OF THE PROBLEM ... the Human Traffickers and stop them.

There are known coastal areas of Myanmar and Bangladesh where these Human Traffickers operate. The BBC only in the last few days aired the details, The Traffickers use small boats go to the shore - and entice people to come — telling total lies about the outcome of the bright future — and charge $1,800 each ... SO this is not a case where people cannot stay and live — they just want the big lie. Then the people are taken by the small boats to bigger boats offshore ... then taken to the coast of Thailand or Malaysia or even Indonesia. There the Traffickers demand phone numbers of relatives of the ‘refugees’ — the Traffickers call the relatives and demand ransom. Some few are returned it the ransom is paid. The rest of the ‘refugees’ are stripped of all money and possessions... then the crew most often abandons ship leaving the people stranded. The BBC has some of the phone numbers of the Traffickers - the relatives handed the numbers to the field reporters. I would think a sting operation could be set up.

The countries of Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia just need to form a naval task force of relatively small ships — and patrol closer in to the Myanmar and Bangladesh coasts — stop these boats large and small — Same as is done to counter Somali Pirates by other countries. These boats and ships should be forcefully boarded and if found to be Traffickers by evidence found on board or if the boats are holding ‘refugees’. Then these Traffickers should be arrested and taken and held for trail. The boats should be used to transfer any ‘refugees’ back to the coasts of Myanmar and Bangladesh and dropped off with medicine and food/water supplies at some coastal village or port.

The captured boats and ships should be scuttled - sink them — keep doing it until there are no more boats for the traffickers to use.

The entire coastal areas of Bangladesh and Myanmar should be bombarded with LEAFLET DROPS of hundreds of thousands of leaflets in all applicable languages telling the TRUTH of what is going to happen to them if they go with the Traffickers - held for ransom, robbed - some of the women likely raped, and left in a boat floating on the sea with no power - no crew - no food - no water and that the countries of Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia are just going to send them back anyway.

NONE OF THIS IS DONE NOW.... only misguided efforts to resettle people in a foreign country that they are not compatible with - at great cost to all. Misguided Compassion is almost as bad as the traffickers - allowing people to believe that if they can last it out they will be given permission to stay in another country ... Strip that dream from them and they will find a way to make a life where they originated...

These so called ‘refugees’ need to be educated — you can’t go there - not allowed to make a life there.

This should be done in the Mediterranean too ... The whole Continent of Africa - 30 or more countries and ‘refugees’ can’t go there — they just CANNOT GO THERE... I say total B.S.

Countries having no backbone are causing great economic and social problems for the PEOPLE of the receiving countries ... The politicians of those countries do not have to live the the problems that they create — they are isolated in their walled communities using the ‘refugees’ for gardeners and maids.... while the producers and taxpayers pay for the lack of Backbone in their so called leaders.

Compassion is a never ending trap — never ending — there will always be another boat load — there is a point when NO - no you cannot come here must be communicated - effectively as I describe above.