200 Bangladeshi people rescued while being sent to Jordan
Published: January 23, 2006
Bangladeshi police have rescued 200 men and women in southeastern port city Chittagong, who were gathered there to be sent to Jordan through sea routes illegally by human traders.
According to the police, the 200 men and women were gathered from different parts of the country to Chittagong. Saturday and Sunday were fixed by the traders for interview dates and dates for submitting money by the job-seekers. But trouble erupted as some cheated people started exchange of hot words with the human traffickers. At once a clash erupted between the human traders andforeign job seekers, which came into the notice of police.
Police arrested five human traders on Sunday.
Kutubur Rahman, a police officer, said the arrested were active members of human traffickers. The traffickers took 70,000 taka (about 1070 US dollars) from each of the 200 men and women, Rahman said.
Another batch of 98 men and women were rescued in the city while they were being sent to Greece through sea routes a few months back.
According to human rights bodies, every year at least 20,000 men, women and children are being sent abroad by human traffickers with the promise of giving them lucrative jobs abroad.
Most of the job seekers are cheated. The traffickers send them first to India through land routes and then to Pakistan and some Middle Eastern countries. Most of young women end up in brothels in India and Pakistan, while male children are usually sold to Middle Eastern countries working as camel jockeys. Many children are also sold in different hospitals, who trade on human limbs.
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