【新唐人2014年11月15日讯】泰国官员在日前披露，被拘禁在泰国的100多名难民逃跑了，这些难民被认为是来自中国新疆的维吾尔族人。泰国警方是担心，他们可能已经落入了人贩子手中。此前曾有媒体披露，北京当局向泰国政府施压，要求遣返被羁押在泰国的数百名维吾尔难民。
法新社12号报导，有大约100多名可能是中国新疆的维吾尔族难民，从泰国的难民营中逃跑。
报导说，今年3月份，泰国警方突袭该国南部宋卡省的一个人口贩卖团伙时，发现了300多名偷渡者。泰国当局判定他们非法入境。
泰国警方把这些人拘留在宋卡的一个移民拘留中心，准备等确定他们的身份后再决定如何处理。这些人自称是土耳其人，但是，在美国的维吾尔活动人士说，这些人是来自中国新疆的维吾尔人。
一名叫顺潘的泰国宋卡官员对法新社表示，两个移民中心的160名妇女儿童中，目前只剩下40人，其他人在11月1号至5号夜间逃走了。他担心这些人落入人口走私集团手中。他说，这些人想去土耳其，不愿意回到中国。
旅居泰国的时政评论员古春秋：“从大陆出来的人你也知道，他们受到中共的迫害，这种迫害应该说不是一般的迫害，对于维吾尔人可能是一种生命，他们可能真的生命受到威胁，他们才会跑出来 ，来到泰国实际上寻求一种庇护。”
古春秋说，泰国没有签署难民公约，包括难民署在泰国的运作都是处于灰色地带，如果这些难民没有和联合国难民署联系上，处于惊恐当中的他们，选择逃跑应该是求生的本能。
古春秋：“我在泰国这里我知道，泰国政府一般可能还不会遣返，因为泰国是一个信佛的国家，他们这里的人还是很善良，维吾尔人不一定会了解这个情况，因为他们只知道在其他的国家 ，在缅甸或者到马来西亚，这些国家可能有过遣返的先例，他们在这一点上知道，他们会有阴影。”
英国《金融时报》在今年的4月3号时曾报导，中共当局加紧对泰国当局施压，要求遣返从动荡的新疆逃出来、现被羁押在泰国的424名维吾尔难民。
但是，国际人权组织、美国、欧洲和联合国都敦促泰国政府，不要遣返包括60多名儿童的这一大批移民，因为担心他们会面临严厉惩罚。
这400多名维吾尔人被羁押在泰国多个羁留中心 ，许多人为防止中共官员接触他们 ，自称是土耳其人。《金融时报》说，中共有关官员被允许前往曼谷一个羁留所 ，见到了被关在里面的127名维吾尔人。而中共外交部在回答媒体的有关提问时宣称，中泰两国在查禁非法移民活动中，保持紧密合作。
美国维吾尔协会副主任伊利夏提•哈桑先生：“在东南亚国家，一旦维吾尔人他们承认是维吾尔人，即便是在联合国的保护之下，也就是获得难民的身份认可以后，仍然被所在国遣返回中国 ，而这些人都面临非常严酷的审判。”
近年来，在中共当局的压力下，包括柬埔寨、马来西亚和巴基斯坦在内的很多国家，都曾强行把逃到该国寻求庇护的维吾尔人，遣送回中国。这些人被遣返后，有的被判重刑，有的被失踪。
美国维吾尔协会副主任伊利夏提•哈桑先生：“像柬埔寨2009年底遣返的20个维吾尔人，最长的是无期徒刑，所以任何一个维吾尔人在东南亚这些国家，只要不到西方国家，没有人敢承认自己是维吾尔人，因为一旦承认是维吾尔人，往往所在国以及联合国都无能为力去保护他们。 ”
2009年底，柬埔寨政府以“非法入境”为由，将20名寻求政治庇护的维吾尔人遣返回中国；2011年，马来西亚当局将11名维族人遣返回中国；2012年，马来西亚政府又将6名维吾尔人遣返回中国 。这些事件引起美国、联合国以及世界各地的维吾尔族组织的强烈不满。
美国最新发布的人权报告指责中共在新疆实施镇压。美国的维吾尔人权组织呼吁国际社会，援助为逃避中共当局的“高压严打”而逃到泰国等东南亚国家的维吾尔人，并要求北京允许这些维吾尔难民前往愿意接收他们的国家。
采访编辑/ 李韵 后制/肖颜
Hundreds of Thai Uyghur Migrants Flee from Repatriation
Thai official disclosed that more than 100 migrants thought
to be from China’s Uyghur minority have escaped
from shelters in Thailand.
The authorities feared they have fallen into the hands
of a human trafficking ring.
Under pressure from Beijing, media have reported that
Thailand was requested to return these Uyghurs to China.
AFP reported on Nov. 13 that, “more than 100 migrants
thought to be from China’s Uyghur minority have escaped
from shelters in Thailand."
“Thailand has held dozens of the migrants since March,
when they were discovered during a raid on a suspected
people-smuggling camp in the kingdom’s deep south
and sentenced for illegal entry," said the report.
“Songkhla province police had said they were waiting
to identify the nationalities of the group before deciding
their fate.
The migrants claimed they were Turkish, but US-based
Uyghur activists identified them as Uyghurs from China’s
northwestern Xinjiang region."
“‘Only 40 of around 160 women and children
remain at the two shelters.
They ran away together at night between
November 1 and 5,’ Jaras Chumpan, chief of the social
development and human security office in southern
Songkhla province," told AFP.
“They want to go to Turkey — they do not want
to go back to China."
Gu Chunqiu, commentator in Thailand: “We know those
who fled from China have been persecuted
by the Chinese Communist Party.
The persecution of the Uyghurs
is a matter of life and death.
Their lives are threatened.
They took refuge by coming to Thailand."
Gu Chunqiu explains that Thailand has not signed
the Refugee Convention, even the UNHCR operation
in Thailand is a gray area.
Without the contact of the UNHCR,
it is their instinct in a panic to survive by running away.
Gu Chunqiu: “I live here, I know.
The Thai government generally may not repatriate
them back to China.
Thailand is a Buddhist country, people are very kind.
But, the Uyghurs would not necessarily understand
the situation.
They only knew that there are cases in other countries
such as Burma or Malaysia where the refugees were
repatriated. It was a shadow to them."
Financial Times reported that on Apr. 3, “China has stepped
up pressure on Thai authorities to repatriate 424 Uighur
refugees who have been detained as illegal immigrants
in Thailand after fleeing the increasingly restive Chinese
territory of Xinjiang.
But human rights groups, the US, Europe and the UN
are urging the Thai government not to send the large group
of migrants, including more than 60 children, back to China
for fear they will face severe punishment," said FT.
“Many of the 424 Uighurs being held in Thailand have
claimed to be Turkish in order to deny Chinese officials
access to them."
FT reported that, “the Chinese government has been granted
access to 127 of the Uighurs who are being held in Bangkok.
In answer to questions about the case, China’s foreign
ministry would only say that “China and Thailand have
maintained close co-operation in combating
illegal immigration activities."
Ilshat Hassan, deputy director of the Uyghur American
Association: “In Southeast Asian countries, once they admit
that they are the Uyghurs, even under the protection
of the UN, that is, after obtaining refugee status recognition,
they are still repatriated to China, where they are faced
with very harsh punishment."
Accordingly, “under pressure from Beijing, countries
including Cambodia, Malaysia and Pakistan have all
in recent years forcibly returned Uyghurs to China.
Some of them have been executed or sentenced to hefty jail
terms while others have simply disappeared."
Ilshat Hassan: “Like the 20 Uyghurs repatriated by Cambodia
at the end of 2009, there was life imprisonment.
Any Uyghur in the Southeast Asian countries would not dare
to admit that they are the Uyghurs.
As long as they are not in the Western countries, once they
admit that they are Uyghurs, often the host country
and the United Nations are powerless to protect them."
In the end of 2009, the Cambodian government sent
20 Uyghurs back to China on grounds of “illegal immigration."
In 2011, the Malaysian authorities sent 11 Uyghurs back
to China; In 2012, Malaysia again sent 6 Uyghurs back
to China.
These incidents aroused strong dissatisfaction
from the United States, the United Nations,
and the Uyghur organizations from around the world.
“The latest annual US human rights report said that China
carries out “severe official repression" of Uyghur sin Xinjiang,"
according to AFP.
The Uyghur American Association urged the international
community to offer shelters to refugees,
and allow the refugees access to countries
which are willing to accept them.
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