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Thailand accounts 90 per cent of human trafficking from Laos

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The Nation (Thailand)
Publication Date: 20-10-2009

Vientiane - Thailand accounts for about 90 per cent of the human trafficking from neighbouring Laos, with girls aged 12 to 18 making up a majority of the victims, state media reported Tuesday. Leik Boonwaat, representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to Laos, said it was estimated that some 35 per cent of the Lao nationals trafficked to Thailand end up in prostitution, the Vientiane Times reported. Another 32 per cent end up in forced labour, 17 per cent work in factories and 4 per cent on fishing boats, the report said. The UN official said an estimated 200,000 to 450,000 people are trafficked annually in the Greater Mekong sub-region, which includes southern China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, the countries joined by the Mekong River. The UN office estimates were made at a seminar held Monday in Vientiane with the Justice Ministry to assess the progress of a joint project to combat human trafficking in the impoverished, land-locked country. "Since October 2006, the ministry has worked alongside UNODC to strengthen the capacity of criminal justice institutions, including the judiciary and government law enforcement bodies, to prevent and combat human trafficking and related forms of organised crime in Laos," the state-run Vientiane Times reported.



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Is it possible that Laos high rank official get involve?

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Anonymous wrote:

Is it possible that Laos high rank official get involve?



There is a possibility of someone is or are being paid to look the other way.

The bottom line is these illegal workers from Laos are sending home the money therefore contribute to the Laos economy. As long as they are doing this, Laos government will not not anything much about it.

It is similar situation in United State. The illegal aliens/migrant workers from Mexico sent the money home contributing to Mexico Economy. They contribute $17 BILLIONS to Mexico economy in 2004 and $16 BILLIONS in 2005.

Here are the top 3 revenue maker for Mexico:

#1  Petrolium industry

#2 Illegal aliens in USA

#3 Tourism

 

I think the situation in Laos is a fraction of this example but still they are putting money into Laos economy. Laos government does not have to invest a lot on infrastructure, health, and education. It is a WIN WIN situation for them.



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Is it possible that Laos high rank official get involve?



Anything is possible.  Just remember one thing, $$$$ is the king here..



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I think in the news is not true as I heard that the illegal workers in Thailand mostly from Burma, 2nd is Cambodia and 3rd from Lao & South China

Anyway, there is so many legal jobs there in Thailand. Why they have to hiding themselve and working as illegal worker with little pay and may get bad employer. Remember last few years a go that 80 illegal Burmese hiding in the container truck crossing to Thaland and on the way to Phuket then suddently the AC was out of order and no air inside. Nobody can contact the driver at the front then leave over 50 bodies dead and 30 injured as run out of O2



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I think in the news is not true as I heard that the illegal workers in Thailand mostly from Burma, 2nd is Cambodia and 3rd from Lao & South China

Think you have misunderstood the article. Read it again carefully. It says that Thailand is the place where the majority of Lao victims of human trafficking end up. It doesn't say that Laos is the main source of illegal workers in Thailand.

Anyway, there is so many legal jobs there in Thailand. Why they have to hiding themselve and working as illegal worker with little pay and may get bad employer.

There are many legal jobs in Thailand, but there are also many many jobs that Thai people don't want to do because the pay is too low, the work is too hard or dangerous, there is little time for rest, etc. So Thai bosses hire workers from other countries to fill these jobs. Maybe you can go find out, how much does it cost for a Lao citizen to get the necessary permits to work legally in Thailand, & how long does it take? & how many ordinary Lao citizens with little education can afford it?

Even if the illegal workers earn less than the minimum wage in Thailand, it's still more than what they can earn in their home country.

Minimum wage in Thailand = 150-200baht per day (depending on province).
Even if a Lao person earns only 100 baht per day working in Thailand, it's still more than twice the average 10,000kip per day that many earn in rural Laos...for those who can earn any money at all. There are still many in Laos who live at a subsistence level & have very little cash.

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