Rare public arrest of human traffickers in Myanmar
Myanmar authorities reported of arresting two human traffickers of attempting to smuggle four women into China.
From the AFP:
In a rare acknowledgement of the problem, the Myanmar-language Mirror paper said the two were held as they tried to bring four women to board a train in the commercial hub Yangon to the border town of Muse.
From there they would have been smuggled into China to work as maids, the newspaper quoted police as saying, and identified the couple.
The government admits women from Myanmar have been lured to China with the promise of good jobs but were instead sold and forced to marry older men
Worldwide, Human Trafficking is a $32 billion market.
