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Saturday, March 24, 2007

In Thailand, Thai Workers are Treated Like Slaves

HUMAN TRAFFICKING RACKET BEING OPERATED IN SOUTHERN THAILAND

Pattaya Daily News

22nd March, News has just come to our attention regarding a Thai human trafficking gang using press-gang techniques and drugging individuals to send them to work on fishing boats operating out of such places as Nakornsritamrat.

Recently, two young men from Buriram were kidnapped by a trafficking gang on their first day of arrival in Bangkok, while looking for work. After being drugged, presumably with something similar to chloroform, the two were transported, unconscious, to a fishing port and effectively imprisoned on a fishing boat for 8 months.

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