Thread: China top destination for Myanmar trafficking victims

China top destination for Myanmar trafficking victims

YANGON: Myanmar police have rescued more than 450 victims of human trafficking since 2005, a private weekly magazine said Monday, adding that most of them were being smuggled to neighbouring China.

Police have arrested 480 people accused of trying to smuggle people out of the country since September 2005, when a new law took effect banning the practice, the Weekly Eleven journal said, citing police reports. Of a total 471 people rescued, “eighty percent of the victims were headed to China, 15 percent to Thailand, and five percent were being trafficked within the country,” the journal said. The journal’s story included arrests up to December 2007.

In the wake of deadly Cyclone Nargis, police told local media that they had rescued 80 storm victims - mainly women and children - at border checkpoints where they were being lured overseas with the promise of aid and better jobs. Despite the ban on human trafficking, the United States said in an annual report last year that Myanmar’s military regime was complicit in the smuggling of people to Bangladesh, China, Malaysia and Thailand. Among the reasons were sexual exploitation, domestic service and forced labour. afp

dailytimes.com.pk

probably should not be surprised that the countries that benefit most from the junta are among it's staunchest supporters .............

Quite frankly If I were Burmese I'd be only too happy to go to China.

out of the pan and into the fire ......................