Picture taken on May 14 shows Rohingya migrants on a boat drifting in Thai waters off the southern island of Koh Lipe in the Andaman. Trafficking experts say Thailand is the centre of a multi-million-dollar trade run by competing transnational criminal syndicates. AFP PHOTO
KOH LIPE , Thailand: Around $1,100 should have secured passage for each of the Rohingya migrants who were found adrift in the Andaman Sea -- victims of a dark trade in humans that pivots around smuggling kingpins in Thailand's south.