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Rise and fall of General Manas: Thailand's top human trafficker
Published Sun, Jul 23, 2017 · 09:50 PM
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AN army "Big Shot" whose influence seeped across the south, Lieutenant-General Manas Kongpan sat at the apex of Thailand's grisly trade in humans, raking in an untold fortune to keep prying eyes off the trafficking route.
As the number of desperate Rohingya and Bangladeshis shuttled through the trafficking operation shot up, so did Manas's rank in the Thai military.
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