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21 Jul 2015

Author:
Emanuel Stoakes, Chris Kelly & Annie Kelly, Guardian (UK)

Thailand: Thousands of Rohingya enslaved in fishing industry; Guardian uncovers role of govt., fishermen & traffickers

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"Revealed: how the Thai fishing industry traffics, imprisons and enslaves", 20 July 2015

Rohingya migrants trafficked through deadly jungle camps have been sold to Thai fishing vessels as slaves to produce seafood sold across the world...A Guardian investigation into Thailand’s export-orientated seafood business and the vast transnational trafficking syndicates that had..been holding thousands of Rohingya migrants captive in jungle camps, has exposed strong and lucrative links between the two. Testimony from survivors, brokers and human rights groups indicate that hundreds of Rohingya men were sold from the network of trafficking camps...discovered in southern Thailand...Though the Guardian has not irrefutably linked individual Thai ships using Rohingya slaves to specific seafood supermarket produce, the likelihood is that some seafood produced using this labour will have ended up on western shelves.