Police in Thailand continue to target migrants on grounds of criminal involvement, but without substantiating evidence. As the Bangkok Post writes:
More than 200 police, soldiers and local officials raided nine locations on Pattaya’s Koh Larn on Friday... The squad searched for narcotics, took DNA samples from migrant workers, recorded their personal information and registered them... Thai law enforcement officials routinely accused migrant workers from Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos of being behind crimes, particularly of tourists. However, on Koh Larn, the most recent violent attack - a rape of a Chinese woman in September - was committed by two Thai speedboat drivers."Military, police sweep Koh Larn for drugs, illegal workers," Bangkok Post, 11 March 2016
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