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Four people are killed and 25 more are rescued after human traffickers forced them from their boat into the water off the coast of Rhodes, Greece, and left.
2024-11-6

Peruvian police liberate 44 individuals, mostly Malaysians, from a Taiwanese organized crime group's extortion scheme in La Molina, Lima. Concurrently, six Taiwanese and two Peruvians are arrested, and the victims, who were deceived with job offers and trafficked via Amsterdam, Netherlands, will be extradited to Malaysia following an investigative process.
2023-10-9

Norway agrees to take in 600 refugees from Rwanda who were previously evacuated from Libyan detention camps. Rwanda last September signed an agreement with the United Nations to take in asylum seekers from Libya while their status was being processed, to cut down on human trafficking in the Mediterranean.
2020-01-8

Malaysian authorities announce sixteen arrests connected to an international human trafficking ring. The arrests follow the seizure of modified tanker ship MV "Etra" in Malaysian waters on Tuesday with 127 Sri Lankan migrants on board being smuggled to New Zealand and Australia. The arrests include seven people captured aboard a fishing vessel used to transfer migrants onto MV "Etra".
2018-05-6

A combined bomb and gun attack kills three Thai police officers and injures two others in Yala province.
2016-09-23

Thai police report a man with a fake passport has been arrested in a Bangkok suburb in connection with the Erawan Shrine bombing. The man was allegedly in possession of bomb making material and dozens of passports.
2015-08-29

A Thai national is arrested in Myanmar in relation to human trafficking offences after the Myanmar Navy rescues more than 200 people from a boat that he allegedly owns.
2015-05-30

The United States Senate unanimously passes a bill to combat human trafficking after a long delay caused by a dispute over abortion funding.
2015-04-22

Thai police arrest at least three people for holding an unauthorised demonstration.
2015-02-22

One RKK (Runda Kumpulan Kecil) separatist group member and a Thai policeman are killed in a firefight in the village of Ruso in Thailand's Narathiwat Province.
2012-04-22