Rohingya News Agency – (CBA): Thailand has announced a change in its tough policy towards Muslim Rohingya refugees from Burma. The government in Bangkok will consult with international organizations like the Red Cross and the UN refugee agency for long-term assistance for the refugees, the government said on Monday. Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has instructed the competent authorities, the Rohingya make up to an “effective solution to the problem” to humanitarian assistance. Thailand so far refused the permanent recording of the Rohingya boat people.

Since the bloody conflict between Burmese Buddhists and categorized as stateless Muslim Rohingya in Burma part Rakhine state last summer, the number of Rohingya fleeing has skyrocketed. Their main goal is the south of Thailand and Malaysia. As the newspaper “Phuket Gazette” (online edition Monday) reported in the past week alone, more than 400 Rohingya were on the coast of Phang Na intercepted north of Phuket. The accommodation is provided in the Immigration Department were already overcrowded. The hard Rohingya politic Thailand was in January 2009 already come in for criticism after the navy towed hundreds of Rohingya Refugees in their flimsy vessels back to sea and exposed on the high seas without food, water and marine engines had. Many of the refugees have been rescued off the coast of India’s Andaman Islands and off the coast of Indonesia’s Aceh by carriers.