BANGKOK, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Monday met with top domestic human rights activists and gave assurances that Thai officials had not abused migrants from Myanmar.

    The Monday's meeting was organized after a Thai military official on Friday dismissed a BBC's report which claimed that the Thai Navy had ill-treated the Rohingyas from Myanmar and Bangladesh who sought work or asylum by pushing them out to sea and setting them adrift.

    The Premier clarified to the human rights activists that the concerned state agencies had assured him that they did not use force to coerce the migrants and did treat them in a humane manner, Somchai Homla-or, chairperson of the Campaign Committee for Human Rights said after meeting with the Premier in the Government House, the website by Thai News Agency (TNA) said.

    Dr. Gothom Arya, director of the Mahidol University Research Centre for Peace Building, said both the Premier and Fourth Army Region Commander Lt-Gen. Pichet Visaichorn, reiterated that an investigation must be carried out to find out whether or not the alleged human rights violations had been committed by operational level officers or units under their command, the TNA website added.

    Thailand had signed the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment which does not allow any inhumane act, Gotham quoted the Premier as saying.