Police acted quickly once they received information from a victim said to have escaped from the farm. They deserve credit for rushing to help, and for freeing the migrants from their brutal confinement.They interviewed the Lao victims and decided they should enter a witness protection programme.
Providing witness protection to the young Lao victims indicates they intend to try to prevent the sort of local or provincial influence and intimidation prevalent in many provinces of this country .There is no public evidence that Mr.Chaidet has such influential contacts ,but police are certainly correct to try to avoid it from the start.
This should protect the traumatized young Lao people from intimidation or retaliation from their employer, or from the “agents” who recruited them in the Northeast and transported them to the farm in Nakhon Pathom.