eparate drives rescued 117 more foreign migrants — 91 Bangladeshis and 26 Rohingas — from the jungle prison camps run by human traffickers, Thai media reported on Saturday. Earlier on Friday, Thai police arrested the mayor of Padang Besar municipality in Songkhla province and two cops over their alleged involvement in human trafficking. Instructed by Thai junta chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha’s calls to end the grim trade within 10 days, police have launched an operation on human traffickers in Songkhla. Observers say the belated move against gangs long known to have operated with the help of corrupt officials has put smugglers on the back foot. As a result, scores of desperate Bangladeshi and Myanmar Rohingyas have been abandoned as their gang masters go underground. One of the rescued, Abdur Razzak, told the media that they were brought there by an engine-boat and kept in the deep jangle. They survived for 10 days by eating tree leaves, he narrated. Meanwhile, Bangladeshi state minister for foreign affairs Shahriar Alam said law enforcers launched a massive crackdown in the greater coastal belt of Cox‘s Bazar and Chittagong to stop human trafficking. The minister disclosed this after coming out a function in Rajshahi on Saturday. Law enforcers have already managed to catch a number of human traffickers from different parts of the country. Replying to a question, the state minister said after identification, the rescued Bangladeshi citizens would be sent back from Thailand. “We are also trying to work jointly to prevent human trafficking on the coastal belt, he added. “Soon we would be able to curb human traffickers on the belt, he hoped. Detective sources said trapped by human traffickers, innocent workers are going to Malaysia and Thailand by engine-trawlers by this waterway to get jobs, putting their lives in risk. While trafficking workers, the incident of trawler capsize take place on this river route. According to detective sources, organised human traffickers have selected different coastal areas, including Teknaf, Kutubdia, Katabunia, Maheshkhali and Hariakhali under Cox’s Bazar and Chittagong in the Bay of Bengal as safe routes for trafficking poor Bangladeshi jobseekers in Malaysia and Thailand. The poor and ignorance Bangladeshi people with voyage on long naval routes by tiny engine-trawlers are usually fell trapped under stormy wind and other natural disaster and lose their valuable lives. Law enforcers are being failed to stop human trafficking on these coastal routes, local people said. On some occasions, some workers are rescued. According to a police record, more than 700 people have been rescued from the clutches of the human traffickers during the last six months. But in most cases, traffickers remain out of touch. The cleaver traffickers in most cases manage to flee the scene. Several months ago, Thailand police also rescued 89 Bangladeshi citizens from a jangle from the country. The Bangladeshi workers were trafficked there by engine-trawlers by sea to be sold as slaves. The men were promised well-paid jobs, before being drugged, bound and kidnapped.According to the police record, some 1,000 people who wanted to migrate to Malaysia were killed in the past three years as boats carrying them sank off the coast near Cox’s Bazar. BGB Director-General Major General Abdul Aziz recently said its forces recently intensified its surveillance on different bordering points in the country to check human trafficking and drug smuggling. “Now we are more sincere in arresting human traffickers and drug smugglers in the border areas,” he pointed out.
Sunday, May 10, 2015
91 Bangladeshi victims rescued in Thailand:Daily Sun
eparate drives rescued 117 more foreign migrants — 91 Bangladeshis and 26 Rohingas — from the jungle prison camps run by human traffickers, Thai media reported on Saturday. Earlier on Friday, Thai police arrested the mayor of Padang Besar municipality in Songkhla province and two cops over their alleged involvement in human trafficking. Instructed by Thai junta chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha’s calls to end the grim trade within 10 days, police have launched an operation on human traffickers in Songkhla. Observers say the belated move against gangs long known to have operated with the help of corrupt officials has put smugglers on the back foot. As a result, scores of desperate Bangladeshi and Myanmar Rohingyas have been abandoned as their gang masters go underground. One of the rescued, Abdur Razzak, told the media that they were brought there by an engine-boat and kept in the deep jangle. They survived for 10 days by eating tree leaves, he narrated. Meanwhile, Bangladeshi state minister for foreign affairs Shahriar Alam said law enforcers launched a massive crackdown in the greater coastal belt of Cox‘s Bazar and Chittagong to stop human trafficking. The minister disclosed this after coming out a function in Rajshahi on Saturday. Law enforcers have already managed to catch a number of human traffickers from different parts of the country. Replying to a question, the state minister said after identification, the rescued Bangladeshi citizens would be sent back from Thailand. “We are also trying to work jointly to prevent human trafficking on the coastal belt, he added. “Soon we would be able to curb human traffickers on the belt, he hoped. Detective sources said trapped by human traffickers, innocent workers are going to Malaysia and Thailand by engine-trawlers by this waterway to get jobs, putting their lives in risk. While trafficking workers, the incident of trawler capsize take place on this river route. According to detective sources, organised human traffickers have selected different coastal areas, including Teknaf, Kutubdia, Katabunia, Maheshkhali and Hariakhali under Cox’s Bazar and Chittagong in the Bay of Bengal as safe routes for trafficking poor Bangladeshi jobseekers in Malaysia and Thailand. The poor and ignorance Bangladeshi people with voyage on long naval routes by tiny engine-trawlers are usually fell trapped under stormy wind and other natural disaster and lose their valuable lives. Law enforcers are being failed to stop human trafficking on these coastal routes, local people said. On some occasions, some workers are rescued. According to a police record, more than 700 people have been rescued from the clutches of the human traffickers during the last six months. But in most cases, traffickers remain out of touch. The cleaver traffickers in most cases manage to flee the scene. Several months ago, Thailand police also rescued 89 Bangladeshi citizens from a jangle from the country. The Bangladeshi workers were trafficked there by engine-trawlers by sea to be sold as slaves. The men were promised well-paid jobs, before being drugged, bound and kidnapped.According to the police record, some 1,000 people who wanted to migrate to Malaysia were killed in the past three years as boats carrying them sank off the coast near Cox’s Bazar. BGB Director-General Major General Abdul Aziz recently said its forces recently intensified its surveillance on different bordering points in the country to check human trafficking and drug smuggling. “Now we are more sincere in arresting human traffickers and drug smugglers in the border areas,” he pointed out.
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