Trafficking victims rescued from Thai vessel

[geovalin]

Pech Sotheary

More than 50 trafficking victims are set to return to Cambodia after their Thai fishing boat was intercepted when it illegally crossed into Indonesian waters last month.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Chum Sounry yesterday said 54 Cambodian nationals were arrested on April 12 and detained in Pontianak, Indonesia. “The Indonesian authorities considered those workers victims of human trafficking and not perpetrators,” Sounry said.

One of the victims, Seak Leng, from Prey Veng province, said in an interview that he migrated to Thailand on January 4 in search of work, but was cheated by a broker and sold to an illegal Thai fishing boat. Leng described slave-like conditions, saying he was forced to work day and night, given insufficient food and not paid a cent.

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[Bob12345]

This cannot be true as the government has stopped human trafficking months ago already.

[TPI]

Obviously made up. ThaIland often has lies printed about its fishermen i.e. the kidnapping of hundreds of women and keeping them captive on an island, forcingf them to pay with sex for food and water or the lies about how they keep and later kill slaves working on their fishing boats or again, the lies about how they co operate with the thai navy in committing acts of piracy!!

[sanukjim]

Good on the Indonesian government to recognize them as victims.

[Canuk23]

Impossible the Junta assured us that there was no human trafficking in Thailand !!!

Edited May 2, 2016 by Canuk23