Who are the culprits ? Life of Burmese Migrant workers, photo essay

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Burmese people have the right to be treated as human beings too

Blogger’s thought

Exhausted and hungry looking males and females, in their 20s and 30s were pushed inside a lorry by strangers.The lorry that normally transports frozen fish, was about to leave with human sardines,who were barely able to stand inside the smelly compartment of the lorry.

However, they have their dream destination. Phuket, a tourist resort of Thailand. Human traffickers, to whom they have paid money earlier promised them good salary, once they were in Phuket, as General workers, cleaners,and so on.

They have left their loved ones, with the hope of earning Thai Bahts which will help their parents, and children back home in poverty stricken Burma.

The lorry was starting on its journey, when suddenly the air condition went off. The heat and smell inside the lorry’s soon to be coffin was unbearable. Some young ladies started coughing, choking and gasping. Someone with a hand phone tried to call the driver to tell him to switch on the air conditioner.

There was an argument, some banging the metal wall of the lorry, while most of them desperately tried to breath air into their lungs. Instead they were breathing carbondioxide into their lungs as there was no more fresh air coming into the sealed compartment of the lorry.

54 Burmese migrant workers suffocated to death in Thailand

By SUTIN WANNABOVORN, Associated Press Writer 40 minutes ago

BANGKOK, Thailand – Fifty-four migrant workers from Myanmar, most of them women, suffocated in the back of a seafood truck in southern Thailand while being smuggled to the popular resort island of Phuket, police said Thursday.

The victims, along with 47 survivors, were crammed tightly into the truck’s sweltering container and were about two hours into their trip late Wednesday in Ranong province near Myanmar when some of them started dying, police Col. Kraithong Chanthongbai said.