Not less than twenty two Ugandans are being held captive in Myanmar after being trafficked there for forced work.
According to the Ugandan internal affairs ministry, the Ugandan government says it is trying to rescue the seventeen men and five women who were recruited by “local leaders” in the suburbs of the capital Kampala.
The victims, who are believed to be aged between 22 and 30, reportedly thought they were being recruited to be employed in supermarkets in Thailand and to do other casual or domestic work.
However, once they arrived in Thailand, they were picked up by local contacts and taken across the border to Myanmar by road.
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