Human trafficking on the rise in Laos

http://www.asiapacificnews.net/story.php?rid=43634698

VIENTIANE, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Human trafficking is an escalating problem in Laos, due to unemployment, poverty and lack of education opportunities, Lao News Agency (KPL) reported on Wednesday.

The number of Laotians falling victim to human trafficking was reported to increase significantly in 2010, most of whom were poor and lack access to jobs and education.

Most victims were from central and southern Laos, including the capital Vientiane, Savannakhet, Saravane and Champassak provinces that have more communications with neighboring Thailand than other places, said Chiengkham, deputy head of the Police General Department.

Almost 150 victims were repatriated back to Laos from Thailand last year, 119 of them under 18 years old, of whom 109 were female, KPL said.

Thailand is very close to those provinces so it's very easy to get there.

If you're a young girl, planning to travel to Thailand to work and you don't have any relatives there to check on you, then it's very risky. That's all I can say.

"Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that a son of a mineworkers can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president." Nelson Mandela

"Most poverty resulted from bad governance." George Soros

Admin Saovaluck wrote on 11^th Mar, 2011 at 2:31am:


And when the truth sets in, what do they do?

llX wrote on 11^th Mar, 2011 at 4:05am:


I "know" what you really want to say is: It's crazy what Thai do to Lao". Don't you? Stop beating around the bush and just say it on behalf of all our Lao peoples. We all feel the same fury and rage inside whne it comes to these people, don't we? So go ahead, and just say it, brother.

The world is a crazy place. Extra precautions are now required learning, and somethings we would like to do, sadly, are just too dangerous to even consider.