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    Quote Originally Posted by snakeeyes View Post
    A heartbreaking text message from a young Vietnamese woman to her mother, saying "I love you so much, I'm dying because I can't breathe".
    That is heartbreaking. Terrible.

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    Is indeed, but sad fact that nothing will change beyond the intensity of political virtue signals.

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    I heard something on the Beeb that said the Vietnamese went to Chinkystan to be trafficked.

    This sits squarely in the lap of Chinkystan.

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    Two Vietnamese Migrants Among 39 Found Dead in British Truck

    Vietnamese victims (L) and the parked truck in a British industrial zone east of London, where the bodies of 39 suspected human-trafficking victims were discovered, Oct. 23, 2019. Reuters with RFA edits.








    Two of the 39 people whose bodies were found in a refrigerated container in the United Kingdom this week came from Vietnam, RFA’s Vietnamese Service confirmed on Friday.


    British investigators began work on Friday on the first autopsies on the bodies, all of whom were initially believed to be Chinese nationals, although none has yet been identified.


    The bodies were found on Wednesday when ambulances were called to a parked truck in an industrial zone in Grays, east of London, only to find that all 39 victims inside were already dead. The local Essex police force said it is beginning the largest-ever murder investigation in its history.


    In telephone interviews to Vietnam, RFA spoke to the father of one young man and the brother of a young woman, both of who said they were on the ill-fated truck. Comments on social media by a Vietnamese human rights activist, and by the desperate woman to her parents, also confirmed the loss of the 26-year-old woman.


    Reuters news agency quoted Vietnam's embassy in London on Friday as saying it had received requests from Vietnamese families asking for help in finding out whether their relatives were among the 39 victims found dead in the back of the truck near London.


    Nguyen Dinh Gia from Can Loc, Ha Tinh Province told RFA that he was notified over the phone by a member of the France- based human trafficking ring that his restaurant worker son, Nguyen Dinh Luong, was one of 39 dead in the truck found in coastal Britain on Wednesday.


    “There was a resident in France where my son lived who intended to move to England and asked him to join him,” said the father.
    “When he was going to move to England, I received a phone call saying I should be ready to talk to my son. That person said that in an hour both the father and son would be connected. Then I lost contact,” he said.


    “Two days later, that person phoned, saying that my son had died already,” said Nguyen Dinh Gia.


    The father said Nguyen Dinh Luong, then 17, had left Ha Tinh for China on Oct. 21, 2017 and six months later he managed to reach France, seeking a better life. Once the son was settled, his family transferred U.S. $18,000 to the trafficking ring as a fee for “transporting him to a free country,” he said.



    'I’m dying because I can’t breathe.'


    In a second case, the New York Times quoted a frantic message sent to her family on Tuesday by by Pham Thi Tra My, 26, who had also reached France by way of China and had attempted to get to Britain.


    “I’m sorry Mom, my path to abroad didn’t succeed,” she wrote. “Mom, I love you and Dad so much! I’m dying because I can’t breathe.”


    RFA reached Pham’s younger brother, Pham Manh Cuong, by telephone on Friday and he confirmed that his sister had gone missing two days earlier while trying to reach Britain and the family has not received any further information.


    Nghiem Hoa, an activist with the group Human Rights Space, had posted on Facebook Friday that Vietnamese families were holding their breath at the initial news of the 39 bodies found in the truck, then felt relief at reports they were all Chinese.


    “But this morning I got the news from a friend that a family in Ha Tinh has lost contact with their daughter since Oct. 23, approximately the time of the incident,” she wrote.


    Essex Police said in a statement on Friday that they had arrested a 38-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman from Warrington in the northwestern county of Cheshire on suspicion of 39 counts of manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people.

    It said the 25-year-old truck driver remains in custody on suspicion of murder.


    "The first post-mortem examinations will begin today, Friday 25 October," it said, adding that formal identification would follow the report by the official coroner.

    https://www.rfa.org/english/news/vie...019154041.html

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    Pham Thi Tra My sent a farewell message to her mother

    A heartbreaking text message from a young Vietnamese woman to her mother, saying "I love you so much, I'm dying because I can't breathe".

    https://www.herald.ie/news/my-journe...-38631953.html
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    Essex lorry deaths: Driver charged with manslaughter of 39 people


    A lorry driver has been charged with the manslaughter of 39 people found dead inside a refrigerated trailer.


    Maurice Robinson, 25, was arrested after the bodies of 31 men and eight women were found in Grays on Wednesday.


    He is further charged with people trafficking, immigration and money laundering offences, Essex Police said.


    Mr Robinson, of Laurel Drive, Craigavon, Northern Ireland, is due before Chelmsford Magistrates' Court on Monday.


    Three others, a man and a woman, both 38, from Warrington, Cheshire, and a 48-year-old man from Northern Ireland remain in police custody.


    All three were arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people.


    A man in his 20s arrested by Irish police in Dublin was said to be "of interest" to the Essex Police investigation.


    Earlier police said efforts to identify the 39 people were focusing on the Vietnamese community.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-50196265

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    Very Sad. Regardless of anything they were just trying to find a better life. Many Asian children are pressured to make money to support their parents and extended family and leave their home countries to do this. The people smugglers take advantage of vulnerable people.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pogs View Post
    Parents borrowing 30k gbp is nothing new inexchange for their kid/kids.
    Then the kids spend their lives enslaved working in cannabis farms paying it off.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chittychangchang View Post
    Then the kids spend their lives enslaved working in cannabis farms paying it off.
    Yes, it's not exactly spending 30k on their education, is it?

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    Makes one wonder how many off these trucks actually deliver without the 2 tragedies in the past 20 years?

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    ^ With this office work I'm doing I'm listening to the radio on my headphones 11 hours a day (apart from watching rugby) and there's a lot of discussion about this.

    Yesterday I heard on one programme that this lorry was thought to be in a convoy bringing in around 200 people in total. The feeling is that this is just the tip of the iceberg.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack meoff View Post
    Makes one wonder how many off these trucks actually deliver without the 2 tragedies in the past 20 years?
    I was wondering yesterday how you would dispose of 39 bodies and then thought about that Morecambe Bay tragedy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    ^ With this office work I'm doing I'm listening to the radio on my headphones 11 hours a day (apart from watching rugby) and there's a lot of discussion about this.

    Yesterday I heard on one programme that this lorry was thought to be in a convoy bringing in around 200 people in total. The feeling is that this is just the tip of the iceberg.

    The Vietnamese said that there were supposedly three trucks in this particular convoy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    were Chinese nationals
    The Sun!

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    Vietnam police take DNA from relatives of suspected truck victims

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    "CAN LOC, Vietnam (Reuters) - Police in Vietnam took hair and blood samples on Sunday to get DNA from relatives of people feared to be among the 39 who died in the back of a truck near London last week, their family members said.
    The bodies were found on Wednesday in a truck container in Grays, about 32 km (20 miles) east of central London and British police are still trying to establish the identity of victims who in many cases lacked identity documents.

    In a poor rice-growing area of northern Vietnam, communities have been plunged into mourning with their hope all but lost for relatives who had set out to seek better lives in Europe and were thought to have been aboard the truck.

    The hashtag #RIP39 was trending in Vietnam on widely-used Facebook.

    Distraught, Nguyen Dinh Gia said he feared there was very little chance he would ever again see his 20-year-old son, Nguyen Dinh Luong, who had been trying to get to Britain after first making it to France.

    “Police from the Ministry of Public Security came to get DNA samples, our hair and blood,” Nguyen Dinh Gia told Reuters at Can Loc in Ha Tinh province, where sympathizers gathered at the simple house amid lush rice fields to console the family."

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    Turns out they were all Vietnamese, no surprise for me there.

    Rip.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chittychangchang View Post
    Sad and sorry desperation of people wanting a better life in Brexit Britain.

    Wouldn't surprise me if the dead were destined for Britians many canabis factories.

    The lorry driver was probably getting 5 grand a person!
    Must have been hellish suffocating conditions in that container.

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    didnt they break the law though ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin
    didnt they break the law though ?
    Yes, and...? Are you suggesting they deserved to die horribly for it?

    Cos that would make you a bit of a cnut.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AntRobertson View Post
    Yes, and...? Are you suggesting they deserved to die horribly for it?

    Cos that would make you a bit of a cnut.
    No. But is it a pure tragedy ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin
    But is it a pure tragedy ?
    How is 39 people dying under horrific circumstances never a pure tragedy.

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    Some of them were women too! Imagining, thanks to the attitudes prevalent with trendy types, that they could travel in the back of a lorry as if they were men!

    In fact women have a far lower lung capacity than men!


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    they made it to France, and their family got greedy and wanted them to join the UK, which is harder, in the middle of Brexit

    their family murdered them, not the silly lorry driver

    stupid Asians, it's not like life in Vietnam or China is anything like it was in the 70s with the boat people

    these families are just greedy, and wanted to do this for status, not a better life

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chittychangchang View Post
    Turns out they were all Vietnamese, no surprise for me there.
    Any front page headlines,

    "We woze wrong, no Chinese at all. Some friendly, dispossessed, Vietnamese men, woman and children....."?

    Page five more likely.

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    Pity the horrible deaths and their horrible suffering...

    However, frankly, do the media take the same attention also to hundreds of deaths daily under bombing and similar atrocities far away from us? (double standard)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dragonfly View Post
    they made it to France, and their family got greedy and wanted them to join the UK, which is harder, in the middle of Brexit

    their family murdered them, not the silly lorry driver

    stupid Asians, it's not like life in Vietnam or China is anything like it was in the 70s with the boat people

    these families are just greedy, and wanted to do this for status, not a better life
    Exaclty what i was getting at. These ppl took a risk and lost. Its not the same as the kid that gets hit at a crosswalk

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    From The Mirror, so a large pinch of salt needed...


    Man arrested over migrant lorry deaths is warned his life is in 'serious' danger

    Eamon Harris, 22, from Northern Ireland, is suspected of delivering the trailer in which 39 migrants died before being discovered in Essex

    Serious death threats have been aimed at individuals after 39 people were found dead in a lorry in Essex ten days ago.

    The sinister messages were received by Eamon Harris and his family following the tragic discovery of dead Vietnamese men and women in the Grays industrial park, the Irish Independent reported.

    On Friday police started extradition proceedings to bring the 22-year-old from Ireland to the UK after he appeared before Justice Donald Binchy in Dublin High Court following a European Arrest Warrant.

    Harris is suspected of delivering the trailer in which 39 migrants died to the Belgian port of Zeebrugge.

    Gardai and the Police Service of Northern Ireland are investigating the threats and formally warned Mr Harris that his life is in "serious" danger. Members of his family in Northern Ireland have also been told their lives are at risk.

    “We are talking about serious death threats," a source told the Irish Sunday Mirror.

    “This has been going on since the story broke over a week ago and it has now escalated since the first arrests were made.”

    “We are talking about a multi-million euro people smuggling ring so officers are taking these threats very seriously.”

    “Police are determined to smash this trafficking ring and the crime bosses behind it are desperate to keep what is a very lucrative industry for them going.”

    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-new...lorry-20806378

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