"The suffocation of 54 Burmese migrant workers in the back of a truck while being transported to work in Phuket is both horrific and yet sadly indicative of systemic problems plaguing migrant laborers in Thailand. Without major reform of the ways in which Thai society interacts with Burmese migrant workers, incidents such as this will certainly continue to occur. Among the many systemic problems underlying the tragedy, 5 key concerns are (1) the tendency to treat the migrant victims as criminal violators of immigration law rather than as victims of tragic crime, (2) the inadequate representation of victims throughout the process, (3) the inadequacy of the remedies available to the injured victims, (4) the impact of Thai migrant labor laws on the tragedy, and (5) the problem of adequate criminal prosecution in the transnational context..."