Thai authority returns nearly 200 Burmese citizens in ten months

November 7, 2025

HURFOM: The Thai authority has been sending back Burmese citizens who attempted to enter Thailand without proper documentation. These migrants were detained in the Ranong Detention Camp, Thailand where they served a prison term for attempting to enter Thailand, without documentation.

The Burmese military junta has been collecting the detainees returned by Thai authorities and forcing them to become military conscripts.

The Joint Committee for the Burmese Citizens Campaign has been urging the Thai government to reconsider its policy of returning the migrants to Burma.

Within the last ten months, from January to the first week of November, 2025, Thai authorities have sent back 1,807 Burmese citizens thirteen times.

The table below shows the monthly number of returns. Data collected by HURFOM

January	149
February	200
March	250
April	208
May	81
June	229
July	162
August	99
September	292
October	90
As of November 5th	47

Those returned were transferred from the Ranong Detention Camp to Kaw Thaung Town, Tenasserim Division by boat.

Among the returnees, young men who are in the 18 – 45 age range have been forcefully conscripted into military service by the junta. Typically, they are detained at the Kaw Thaung based 262^nd Light Infantry Battalion and then sent to the 12^th Advanced Military Training School.

Many young Burmese men have been leaving for Thailand, using a variety of methods, due to the political and economic crisis and unlawful public conscription law.

In October, 2025, the Thai authority arrested 616 Burmese citizens who entered Thailand without proper documentation.

In 2024, the Ranong Detention Camp sent back 2,005 Burmese citizens to Kaw Thaung spread out over fourteen different occasions.

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