25 MUSLIM UIGHAR INMATES ESCAPE FROM THAI JAIL
The 20 (5 were later caught) inmates were among a group of 200 Uighur that escaped from Xinjiang, China. All inmates left their home alleging China of oppressing them, in which China denies. However, China labels the Uighur people as illegal immigrants. China believes that terrorism runs rampant in the Uighur race. Over the years, many have tried to escape and join terrorist organizations in Turkey and Afghanistan. The escaped inmates escaped through digging through the walls with tiles, using the heavy rain to hide the noise. All escapees held no passport or identification papers. Both Turkey and China claim the escapees as citizens of their respective country.
I believe that the Thai authority should be the ones to blame for this. Since the 200 inmates were detained since 2014, it has been 3 years and still the Thai government has not yet made a decision on deporting them back to China, where they may or may not be executed or jailed, or granting them asylum and allowing them to become Thai citizens. However, if they are indeed oppressed by the ethnic Han/Chinese, their pleas for asylum should be granted.
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