Monday, May 04, 2015

Slave trade booms in Dark Triangle...

Transnational traffickers lured some 2.5 lakh Bangladeshi fortune-seekers through sea route in 8 years, held them in Thai jungles for ransom, used them as slaves

Promising jobs in Malaysia, transnational human traffickers held about 2.5 lakh Bangladeshis captive in Thailand for ransom over the last eight years and realised crores of taka from them, The Daily Star can report.

Lured into the trap, many of the country's poor people make the voyage in cargo vessels through sea to Thailand first, hoping to cross into Malaysia overland.

But before the jobseekers can make it to their final destination, their dreams turn into a collective nightmare. Held in crammed and filthy conditions in Thai jungles for months or even years, they are often beaten and starved for ransom.

Thailand is a strategic location for holding victims in remote mountains dotting that country's coast, said a Bangladeshi expatriate in Malaysia who turned broker.

“The migrants are confined in Thailand to realise the ransom before they are sent to Malaysia, because in the past some jobseekers fled from Thailand without paying. It is better to settle the business at the right time,” he told this newspaper by phone on condition of anonymity. Full story...

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