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Mahachai , Thailand - Arab Today

Hundreds of migrants from Myanmar gave Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi a thunderous welcome to neighboring Thailand on Thursday on her first visit since her National League for Democracy swept to election victory in November.
Thailand is home to between two and three million migrant workers from Myanmar, many of whom perform back-breaking jobs most Thais are unwilling to do. Her visit has prompted renewed calls for better protection of migrant workers, many of whom are undocumented and whom rights groups say are vulnerable to abuse.
“We hope she will pressure the Thai government to have sympathy for us,” said Ma Kout Shwe, a steel-factory worker from Myanmar.
Suu Kyi and Thai junta chief Prayuth Chan-ocha will on Friday sign a memorandum of understanding to help Myanmar migrants work legally in Thailand, according to a Thai government document distributed before the visit.
Many of those gathered at the Talay Thai market in Mahachai, a fishing port just west of Bangkok, wore t-shirts bearing the words: “We love Aung San Suu Kyi.”
Many migrants in Mahachai work on fishing boats or in seafood processing plants. The industry’s reputation has been tarnished by instances of human trafficking, forced labor and violence.
The junta has been jittery over Suu Kyi’s visit. A press conference in Bangkok on the plight of Myanmar’s 1.1 million Muslim Rohingya minority ended abruptly on Thursday after the Thai authorities put pressure on the human rights groups that organized it.
Suu Kyi has been criticized overseas, and by some in Myanmar, for saying little about the abuses faced by the Rohingya, who live in apartheid-like conditions and are seen by many Myanmar Buddhists as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.

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