A 19-year-old Lao woman who was pressured to work at a Chinese language-run on-line rip-off middle in Myanmar for 2 years is protected at a rehabilitation facility for human trafficking victims in Thailand, two Thai officers advised Radio Free Asia.
The younger lady had despatched two messages to RFA earlier this month saying she had been launched from the rip-off middle and had made her manner throughout the border to a police station in Thailand’s Mae Sot district.
Nevertheless, a Thai police officer stated final week that there was no proof {that a} 19-year-old Lao lady had not too long ago sought security at a police station in Mae Sot.
On Wednesday, an official at a rehabilitation middle in Thailand’s Phitsanulok province confirmed to RFA that the girl was despatched to the ability on Dec. 13 after Thai authorities recognized her as a human trafficking sufferer.
Below an settlement with Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar and Vietnam, Thailand should present bodily and psychological therapy for trafficking victims earlier than sending them again to their house nation, the rehabilitation official stated.
“After she arrived right here, we needed to course of her case,” he stated. “Firstly, she is going to undergo all steps for bodily and psychological therapy.”
The younger lady spoke with RFA on Wednesday.
“I’m in Pissanulok province now, on the rehabilitation middle,” she stated. “As quickly as I left, I knowledgeable my mother on Dec. 3. I left Burma close to the top of November.”
One other official on the rehabilitation middle advised RFA that they’re interviewing her for a report that will probably be despatched to the Thai and Lao governments.
After that, Lao officers will go to her household to make it possible for she will probably be protected when she returns, the official stated.
Translated by Phouvong. Edited by Matt Reed and Malcolm Foster.
