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RE: FW: Contacts to help Burmese workers Date: 12-Jan-2005
Dear Saya/Sayama & Friends,
As you may hear from media sources about Tsunami Burmese Victims in Phuket Island,
about 1,600 of Burmese are working as fisher and cleaner and stay near sea side of Phuket
and Phangna Island which is very close to Phuket. I telephone to my closed friends and
volunteers in Phuket and I would like to share with you, what are actually happening
there.
Majority of them are over-stayers and rest of them are work permit holders.
1) About 600 of them peoples have died in the wave.
2) Many of work permit holders cannot present their document such as passport, work permit
cards and some of their employers also died in this event, so nobody identify them as
their workers.
3) A few can show up proper document, some employer who are alive can identify their
employees. So they can stay at the camp under care of International & Government
Originations.
Those who are under category 1 & 2 cannot get any proper aid and some of them are
captured and send back to Myanmar. Some of them are accused of stealing lack of food.
Majority of them cannot speak very well in Burmese, English and Thai Languages because
they grown up near border, So few volunteer counselors are there to counsel for them.
We are collection donation to send to the Burmese Victims and we have received about
S$2,000/- ( Bhat 45,000/-). Some groups are there to give hand them. Among of the groups
we send "Bhats 20,000" to " Ko Aung Myo Min ( + 66 1 9925 293), council member of ARCC ( HREIB )", their
group including volunteer counselors, doctors, nurses and volunteers are staying
under their own expense.
For Information, please visit the website and contact,
http://www.monywa.org/hreib.htm Ko Aung Myo Min is a member.For the HREIB,
http://moemaka.org/real/thursday.ram
Pls check http://www.arrc-hre.com/success/issue03/page05.html
Ko Aung Myo Min ( + 66 1 9925 293), council member of ARCC.
With Metta,
Dr. Cyinthia Maung's Group
Ko Nyein Wai (Thailand 661 7864019 ) E-mail: sandaywe@yahoo.com
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From: Zaw Aung <zawaung_2000@y...>
Date: Tue Jan 11, 2005 7:49 am
Subject: Re: [RITBurma] Donation for Myanmar tsunami
victims from Thailand.
Dear Saya/Sayama, Brothers and Sister
A Burmese Temple bbt.org.sg has raised more than
S$8000+ and a Burmese Christian Church jbcs.org.sg
also raised S$8000+. But these are for Singapore Red
Cross.
We know, raising fund for Burmese victims in Thailand
is very difficult.
Thanks to Ko Zaw Zaw Cho to volunteer his bank a/c.
Also thank to Ma Khin May Aye for asking how to
distribute.
We expect few hundred dollors of donation. :( but and
decided to use for HREIB (Thailand) which is part of
Thai Gov. organiation and Ko Aung Myo Min (interviewd
with Moemaka) is a member.
Other Burmese society and religious team also raising
fund.
Have a nice day
Zaw Aung
84Ec
--- Zaw Zaw Cho <zawzawcho@y...> wrote:
> Name: Zaw Zaw Cho
> DBS saving 054-8-018625 or OCBC saving
569-2-000192.
> Best Regards,
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From: Khin May Aye <KhinMayAye@s...>
Date: Mon Jan 10, 2005 4:15 pm
Subject: Re: [RITBurma] Re: Burma, Tsunami and Burmese
need help from Burmese community
Collection is not a problem. It'll be within Burmese community.
However, my
main concern is how to distribute to there?
Give yr inputs?
Best regds
Zaw Zaw Cho
<zawzawcho@yahoo.
com> To
ritburma@yahoogroups.com
09/01/2005 23:41 cc
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From: Zaw Zaw Cho <zawzawcho@y...>
Date: Mon Jan 10, 2005 9:25 pm
Subject: Donation for the Myanmar tsunami victims from
Thailand.
Dear Brothers and Sisters (From Singapore),
http://moemaka.org/real/thursday.ram
As per above broadcast form Moemaka, those people who
are Myanmar tsunami
victims from Thailand really need help from us.
Although we know that we all have already supported to the
victims via Singapore
Red Cross, NTUC etc, we will make the donation directly to
those Myanmar victims
again. We just help our Myanmar victims who urgently need
help. Pls be feel free
to help them together.
So for the donation, pls use the following accounts and send
email (contact)to
us for further information. Thanks for your help.
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From: mg yit <mgyit@y...>
Date: Sat Jan 8, 2005 4:38 am
Subject: Burma, Tsunami and Burmese need help from
Burmese community
Dear All
some link to share with RIT Burma Family
Helping Hands from Netherland By Ko Tun Aung
http://news.mywebdigest.net/article.php?sid=679&mode=thread&order=0
Burmese Displaced People Need Help at Mae Sot
http://news.mywebdigest.net/article.php?sid=676&mode=thread&order=0
And more of news and articles collection on Burma &Tsunami
http://news.mywebdigest.net/categories.php?op=newindex&catid=3
Aye Byar...
And more bad news too.
Burmese Political Prisoners including Thet naung Soe
suffering mental disorder in Burmese Prisons
http://news.mywebdigest.net/article.php?sid=681&mode=thre
ad&order=0
best
Maung Yit
93 EC
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To: 'editor@bangkokpost.net'
Subject: Contacts to help Burmese workers
Importance: High
Dear Editor,
My name is Htike, a Myanmar citizen, who is currently working in Thailand.
I’ve read through following article in Today’ BKK post, and I was very sad to
know the status of Myanmar workers regardless of their work permit status. I and my
friends would like to support some money to them. Pls, help how can we support the money.
Thanks so much and looking forward to seeing your kind reply.
Htike
Manager
QA & EHS Dept
Mattel Bangkok Limited.
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Burmese receiving no help
They are being seen as `not worthy' of aid
KULTIDA SAMABUDDHI
Bangkok Post 11-Jan-2005
Phangnga _ While foreign tourists and Thais who survived the monster waves have been
provided with shelter, basic facilities and financial assistance, hundreds of Burmese
workers that are still alive and kicking are being treated as if they don't even exist.
Forget about the 20,000-baht compensation for a Burmese death, 2,000-baht in aid money for
an unemployed Burmese, or receiving DNA checks to find their missing relatives. Burmese
workers can only think of finding food and drinking water without being arrested and
deported by the immigration police who have stepped up their crackdown against them.
Thai villagers and police have accused many of the illegal Burmese workers of theft and
break-ins at tsunami-damaged hotels. Only Burmese with work permits and those who were
brought back for work by their employers are not being branded as criminals. Auig, 25, a
Burmese worker at the Ban Nam Khem fishing village, said Burmese workers who had taken
refuge in front of the Takua Pa district office along with some Thai villagers to escape
the wrath of the tsunami, had mostly been rounded up by immigrantion police for
deportation. The ones who escaped arrest had fled the province and taken refuge at a
detention camp in Ranong. Auig and some 20 other Burmese workers arrived from Koh Song in
Burma by boat in Ban Nam Khem five years ago in search of employment. Auig was employed as
a helper by a Thai fish vendor and received a monthly salary of 3,000 baht before the
tsunami devastation.
According to Auig, more than half of about the 2,000 Burmese workers in Ban Nam Khem were
missing.
He lost two elder brothers in the disaster and found the body of one and handed it to a
rescue party because he had no money to arrange a cremation.
``We haven't received any help from the Thai Government, but it's fine. We have no right
to complain,'' Auig said, adding he could not go back to Ban Nam Khem because his employer
had also been killed by the waves along with five of his family members. Thouse, 25, a
Burmese worker from Ban Nam Khem, said Burmese workers dared not go to Wat Yanyao to
search for the dead bodies of their relatives as they were afraid of being arrested.
The Burmese survivors fled in all directions after the tsunami catastrophe, he said,
adding some had even set up a camp in a deep jungle on the high mountains. Others were
arrested and deported to Burma, and the rest presumed dead.
Meanwhile, a Burmese immigrant advocate called on the government to provide humanitarian
aid to alien labourers on par with Thais and foreign tourists.
``Alien workers should not be a subject of discrimination under the disaster relief
scheme. These people are severely affected in the same way as Thais and foreign
tourists,'' said the activist, who asked for anonymity. Jakkaphan Sareung, head of the
Labour Ministry's illegal alien workers suppression unit, said there were about 20,000
Burmese workers in Phangnga. Of this, about 1,000 were deported after the disaster. ``The
remaining are hiding in a deep jungle or have returned to their employers,'' he said,
adding the officers had deported only the permitless workers and those who wanted to
return home.
The ministry and the immigration police yesterday launched joint patrols in Takua Pa
District in response to Thai villagers' claim that Burmese workers had been stealing food
and valuables from the tsunami-hit hotels, he said.
He urged employers to look after their Burmese workers well if they wanted them to stop
committing crimes.
``Many employers abandoned their workers after the disaster. However, the authorities do
not want to aggravate the situation further, so we will just send the unemployed back
without punishing the employers,'' he said.
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