CNI News
7 June 2024
More and more Myanmar people are being trafficked to foreign countries such as China, Thailand, Malaysia, Dubai, Tibet, Saudi Arabia than ever before, those who helping the people who are trafficked told CNI News.
The number of human trafficking cases handled during the three past years was equal to that of trafficking cases was equal to that of all the previous year round.
Human trafficking was being committed by compatriots and trustees, Ma Myo Myo Aye who is helping those trafficked, told CNI News.
" The people who were trafficked to China and Dubai have increased. Human traffickers are targeting people from rural areas, who don't get exact information. A compatriot, for example, has arrived in Thailand or China. He or she has connected villagers from the entire village with traffickers. If a worker gets 300,000 kyats per month within Myanmar, a Myanmar worker gets five or seven or ten lakh kyats in the country where he or she has arrived. He or she often repeats that. Those who want to go abroad don't think about it on detail. If they go abroad, they go abroad with the feeling that it will be convenient for them." she said.
While Myanmar people are being checked
After recruitment by saying that workers could get jobs in Singapore and Macao countries, those recruited were sent to Dubai, Oman, Tibet and Saudi Arabia as house maids or domestic workers, according to those who are helping the people who were trafficked.
House maids face sexual assaults by landlords in the countries where they arrived and departments concerned hardly took action against culprits, they said.
Most of the people who were trafficked are ethnic people and people from rural areas, Ko Sai Yu Maung who provides assistance to victims of human trafficking, told CNI News.
" Many Myanmar people are also trafficked to China. All the Myanmar girls across the country - if they want to go to China, they don't have to pay for return flight ticket fee. They will be given 70 lakh kyats. For the time being, traffickers give 10 lakh kyats to the girl's family for their livelihood. The rest money will be given to the girl as soon as she gets to China. It's just a type of selling girls. Both Chinese people and Myanmar people are involved in human trafficking. They don't tell the girls what to work in China in advance. The girls must be wives of Chinese men, I heard. They will stay with Chinese men, but it's not clear how long they will take." he said.
While seeing those who will go to China to work
Types of human trafficking that occurred in Myanmar were forced marriage, forced prostitution, forced servitude, child trafficking and being bound by debt.
In 2018, Surrogacy was found as a new form of human trafficking, stated in an article to mark Anti-Trafficking Day in 2020.
80.32 percent of human trafficking were trafficked to foreign countries and 50 percent of the people who were trafficked were women and children, said former Home Minister U Soe Htut on the Anti-Trafficking Day in 2022.
