A Thai naval officer has confirmed claims that ethnic Rohingya boat people from Myanmar, detained along Thailand's south-western coast, have been taken back out to sea and set adrift.
The naval officer, who declined to be identified, told Al Jazeera: "We have to take the engines off the boats or they will come back.
"The wind will carry them to India or somewhere."
Humanitarian groups have accused Thailand of systematically abusing migrants from the Muslim minority Rohingya.
The allegations of abuse came after accounts emerged of a group of Rohingya being beaten before being towed back out to sea after being intercepted off Indonesia.
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