"NGO helps migrants flee Thailand", 24 July 2017

The Thailand-based Aid Alliance Committee (AAC) helped 55 migrants, who are stranded in Thailand, reach Myawaddy. 

The workers had reportedly been illegally taken to Thailand by traffickers and kept in a compound in Mahachai in Samut Sakhon. The AAC rescued them...with the help of the Thai authorities said Ye Min from the committee.

One freed worker said: “The brokers said we will have a job in Thailand. We gave them Ks650,000 each. They told us we could go to Thailand and sent us through Htikhi. We have been locked up in a compound in Mahachai for over one month. We have no job and some of them asked for help from the AAC."

The Department of Special Investigation (DSI), Thai army, anti-human trafficking police and labour affairs protection group cooperated to rescue the stranded workers...

A total of 108 Burmese workers were being kept in the compound.