Myanmar citizens duped others from their country to work on boats

[Lite Beer]

Myanmar citizens duped others from their country to work on boats
The Sunday Nation

BANGKOK: -- Four men and a woman from Myanmar were arrested in Bangkok's Bang Khun Thien district for luring other Myanmar people to do hard labour on fishing boats - lying to them by saying they would have well-paid jobs at a bread factory in Samut Sakhon.

Anti-Human Trafficking Division chief Pol General Kittisak Durongkawiboon told a press conference yesterday that police had received a complaint from a Myanmar group in Thailand that the five had lured three men aged 18-20, one of whom escaped and asked for the group's help.

Police rescued the two other men and arrested the five procurers. The five reportedly

confessed to the crime, saying they received Bt10,000 for per worker.

Police urged Myanmar citizens wishing to work in Thailand to register with Thai authorities to prevent them from falling victim to human traffickers.

-- The Nation 2014-06-08

[krisb]

Small step in the right direction I suppose.

Would be good to hear more of these stories.

[Fiddlesticks]

Would be great to hear that the perpetrators were sentenced to forced labor on one of the fishing boats that they lured others onto! That would truly be JUSTICE.

[Absolut]

Small step in the right direction I suppose.

Would be good to hear more of these stories.

We need to hear 1 every day to make a little bit of difference. The horror stories that are reported around forced hard labour on Thai fishing boats is shocking.

CNN did a piece with the Thai authorities raiding a boat in the gulf, only problem was they 'forgot' to take a translator with them so were unable to question the deck workers. One has to wonder how serious they are about cleaning up this industry.

Every brand of tinned tuna on the supermarket shelves in Aus is labeled Product of Thailand, from the store brand cheapie to the most expensive brand names like Green Seas and Safcol.

The big brands all proudly label their product Dolphin Safe or Dolphin Friendly but none of them seem to be able to claim to be Slave Labour free.

[FATOZ]

What about arresting the a**holes who are operating the boats these people are enslaved on?

[chainarong]

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What about arresting the a**holes who are operating the boats these people are enslaved on?

Well you would think that the problem would lie with the boat owners

[noitom]

let's see if the Thai military squeezes out the names of the Thai Mr. Bigs funding and sponsoring these low runners who were "offered" 10,000 baht/per head to make the run. Offered by whom?

[noitom]

Thai divert attention from themselves and their own human trafficking rackets and networks to few lowly Burmese runners and make it headline news. The world knows what Thailand is up to in human trafficking and drug running.

[somchaismith]

Bug deal. If people didn't regularly dupe their fellow countrymen, fraud charges would be obsolete.

Edited June 8, 2014 by somchaismith

[CBR250]

Good to see some attention being paid to human trafficking of men (despite the headline called them "citizens", they were actually males).

Human trafficking of females is reprehensible, but does at least attract international attention and action.

Very rare to hear anything about the human trafficking of males, despite the fact that it involves exploitation and abuse (including killings) of thousands of men and boys.

[thumper101]

In a little over 6 months, ASEAN kicks in and all foreign workers will have RIGHTS dictated by the entire community of ASEAN states.

Thailand had best pulls its socks up by then, because so far every person in my Thai family who has a business requiring staff uses illegal Laos and Burmese workers. I will also be soon taking on many workers in my own businesses and not one of them is going to be a Thai.... Thais will cause many problems with their 'not going to work today attitude'.

They wrecked my friend's business and he went broke eventually. It's pretty poor when even Thais won't hire Thais.

Edited June 8, 2014 by thumper101

[chainarong]

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Good to see some attention being paid to human trafficking of men (despite the headline called them "citizens", they were actually males).

Human trafficking of females is reprehensible, but does at least attract international attention and action.

Very rare to hear anything about the human trafficking of males, despite the fact that it involves exploitation and abuse (including killings) of thousands of men and boys.

Dead right

[Andre0720]

• These people from Myanmar must have some Thai blood...

[Chris Lawrence]

Small step in the right direction I suppose.

Would be good to hear more of these stories.

We need to hear 1 every day to make a little bit of difference. The horror stories that are reported around forced hard labour on Thai fishing boats is shocking.

CNN did a piece with the Thai authorities raiding a boat in the gulf, only problem was they 'forgot' to take a translator with them so were unable to question the deck workers. One has to wonder how serious they are about cleaning up this industry.

Every brand of tinned tuna on the supermarket shelves in Aus is labeled Product of Thailand, from the store brand cheapie to the most expensive brand names like Green Seas and Safcol.

The big brands all proudly label their product Dolphin Safe or Dolphin Friendly but none of them seem to be able to claim to be Slave Labour free.

Dolphins are a safe bet, everyone love them?

Its far easier to dupe someone from your own country that trust your word.

But the Bangkok Thais are doing it everyday to the buffalos that live in the country?

[Chao Lao Beach]

let's see if the Thai military squeezes out the names of the Thai Mr. Bigs funding and sponsoring these low runners who were "offered" 10,000 baht/per head to make the run. Offered by whom?

It might not be safe to answer that question.