Bangladesh ambassador in Bangkok Saida Muna Tasneem on Friday met some 16 Bangladeshis migrants rescued from Thailand's southern Songkhla province.
Bangladesh embassy in Bangkok disclosed the matter through a press release on Sunday morning.
Earlier on Thursday, Saida accompanied by two senior officers of the embassy and a official of the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs arrived in Songkla on a urgent visit to meet the trafficking victims.
During the two-day visit, Saida visited a hospital in Sadao district where Toton Saha, 28, hailed from Narayanganj, underwent treatment in police protection.
Earlier on May 1, Thai Police rescued him from a jungle near Thai-Malaysia border.
The envoy spent two hours with him, inquiring about his well-being, detail of his horrifying experience on way to Thailand and asked his permanent address in Bangladesh for subsequent nationality verification.
The ambassador assured him of safe repatriation to the country after completing verification process from Bangladesh and formalities from Thai government.
Later, the envoy visited a protection center in Ratthaphum district of the province and interviewed 15 more migrants, who claimed themselves as Bangladeshis nationals. Thai Police rescued them from different areas of the province near Thai-Malaysian border over the last couples of days.
Besides, Saida Muna Tasneem called on Sonkgkhla province vice-governor Ekkarat Leesen and Thai Police senior commander Naret Inprom at the Governor House in Songkhla.
Thanking the local administration for taking care of Bangladeshi victims of trafficking, she assured the vice governor that Bangladesh government would take strict measures against the organized criminal groups those are trafficking Bangladeshi people by sea routes to Malaysia via Thailand.
The Ambassador exchanged views with people concerned including senior officials of the Thai Social Development and Human Security Ministry on the conditions and situation of trafficked victims from Bangladesh.
They also discussed on collective actions and collaboration between Bangladesh and Thailand to combat human trafficking by sea and land.
Ekkarat Leesen termed trafficking as a trans-national humanitarian crime, underlining the involvement of all regional countries were necessary to resolve the supply, demand and criminal aspects of trafficking by the sea.
He informed the ambassador that in countering trafficking moved, the Thai government has cracked-down on all concerned including traffickers, Thai police, immigration officials having involved with trafficking networks over the last week.
With the ongoing combing operations on traffickers, Thai government will continue to unearth more trafficking networks and rescue the victims in the days to come, Ekkarat Leesen hoped.
