It is not just Thailand’s recent call for unregistered migrant workers to get themselves registered that has been attracting poor people from Burma to the kingdom, but the unusually early rains that destroyed the crops-coupled with the government’s refusal to help – were other reasons, according to migrants coming from Pegu region.
Sources of Shan and PaO descendents, coming across Myawaddy to Maesod said their green gram (Mat Pey) fields were ravaged by unexpected downpours. “During the previous years, traders were scrambling over each other to buy them,” said a Shan woman. “If they could buy one sack (about 60 liters) for K 30,000 (roughly $30) they were happy. However, before we came away, we were offering to sell it at K7,000 ($7) per sack but there were few buyers.”
Farmers spent time harvesting the rain soaked beans and selecting the good ones from the bad ones. “We dubbed it yway kauk pwe (choose and pick, the word used for elections),” one of the PaO migrants quipped.
Petitions were lodged to the government and the parties, but as there were no action taken by them, they had decided to come, said the sources, most of them coming from Taw Kywe Inn, a town in Kyauk Taga township, Pegu district. “There are at least 2-3 truckloads coming each day,” one of the sources claimed.
According to the new policy, Bangkok will be accepting applications from the unregistered migrants for a legal work permit and stay between 15 June-14 July.
Source: http://shanland.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3735:early-monsoon-drives-people-to-thailand&catid=93:general&Itemid=291
Sources of Shan and PaO descendents, coming across Myawaddy to Maesod said their green gram (Mat Pey) fields were ravaged by unexpected downpours. “During the previous years, traders were scrambling over each other to buy them,” said a Shan woman. “If they could buy one sack (about 60 liters) for K 30,000 (roughly $30) they were happy. However, before we came away, we were offering to sell it at K7,000 ($7) per sack but there were few buyers.”
Farmers spent time harvesting the rain soaked beans and selecting the good ones from the bad ones. “We dubbed it yway kauk pwe (choose and pick, the word used for elections),” one of the PaO migrants quipped.
Petitions were lodged to the government and the parties, but as there were no action taken by them, they had decided to come, said the sources, most of them coming from Taw Kywe Inn, a town in Kyauk Taga township, Pegu district. “There are at least 2-3 truckloads coming each day,” one of the sources claimed.
According to the new policy, Bangkok will be accepting applications from the unregistered migrants for a legal work permit and stay between 15 June-14 July.
Source: http://shanland.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3735:early-monsoon-drives-people-to-thailand&catid=93:general&Itemid=291
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