Inside World Politics

In the case where 54 Myanmarese migrant workers were found dead inside a truck, six people who were allegedly involved have been surrendered to the Thai police.  A female suspect was the latest to surrender in the human smuggling operation where 121 workers were illegally transported across the border from Myanmar on April 10.  The workers had suffocated, and 54 died.  There is a seventh suspect who is still at large.  Police suspect that he is the broker who recruited the illegal workers into the country.  Last week another suspect admitted that he drove the car and got paid $2,500 to it.  A man an da woman loaded the people into the back of his 10-wheel truck and told him to go to an address in Phuket.  When he found out that several of the workers died he abandoned the truck on the roadside. Survivors of the trip will be testifying against the suspects.