Unfortunately in our country the organised human traffickers are still enjoying a relatively free run. Thus, it is no wonder that human trafficking from Bangladesh continues rather unabated

Unabated human trafficking

That human traffickers have been using a new route to send Bangladeshis to Italy through United Arab Emirates (UAE), Egypt and Libya is a worrying piece of information. A report on this appeared in this newspaper yesterday. Many of the Bangladeshis who were rescued or died in the boat capsizes off the coast of Libya on August 27 are believed to have been taken to Libya from Bangladesh using the new route starting from the port city of Chittagong. According to government sources, immigration officials as well as Libyan Embassy in Dhaka facilitated the trafficking of these Bangladeshis. What is surprising is that Bangladeshis are flying out of the country with forged documents under the nose of the immigration people.
A wide network of human traffickers is functioning to send Bangladeshis abroad illegally. Unscrupulous members of law enforcement agencies, some figures with political identities, their cohorts and vested interest groups, have formed an unholy nexus. They are luring gullible people, particularly youths, to undertake risky adventures to be able to land illegally in foreign countries.
Although these perpetrators of human miseries are enriching themselves with huge amounts of money squeezed out from allured people whom, they say, are being helped to leave the country and face all the consequences thereof, they on their part remain untouched. Recently the Thai government came down heavily on those involved in human trafficking in their country including some army generals. But unfortunately in our country the organized human traffickers are still enjoying a relatively free run.
No warlike situation is prevailing in Bangladesh like in Syria. Nor the country is experiencing famine like in Ethiopia and Somalia so that such a state of deprivation forces some of our people to take great risks in departing from their country. Why should then our people in considerable number want to turn their back on their own country encountering so much peril ?
Clearly, the impunity with which human traffickers can carry out their activities in Bangladesh, is the single most important reason why this awful trading in human misery is still not coming to a close. In the wake of recent happenings of Bangladeshis in droves caught while trying to sail deceptively to Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and even Australia in hardly seaworthy boats, our law enforcers should have swooped down on the well identified racketeers who form the local networks behind human trafficking. But no deep and driving actions are yet to be taken against them. Thus, it is no wonder that human trafficking from Bangladesh continues rather unabated.

 

 

Unfortunately in our country the organised human traffickers are still enjoying a relatively free run. Thus, it is no wonder that human trafficking from Bangladesh continues rather unabated

Unabated human trafficking

That human traffickers have been using a new route to send Bangladeshis to Italy through United Arab Emirates (UAE), Egypt and Libya is a worrying piece of information. A report on this appeared in this newspaper yesterday. Many of the Bangladeshis who were rescued or died in the boat capsizes off the coast of Libya on August 27 are believed to have been taken to Libya from Bangladesh using the new route starting from the port city of Chittagong. According to government sources, immigration officials as well as Libyan Embassy in Dhaka facilitated the trafficking of these Bangladeshis. What is surprising is that Bangladeshis are flying out of the country with forged documents under the nose of the immigration people. A wide network of human traffickers is functioning to send Bangladeshis abroad illegally. Unscrupulous members of law enforcement agencies, some figures with political identities, their cohorts and vested interest groups, have formed an unholy nexus. They are luring gullible people, particularly youths, to undertake risky adventures to be able to land illegally in foreign countries. Although these perpetrators of human miseries are enriching themselves with huge amounts of money squeezed out from allured people whom, they say, are being helped to leave the country and face all the consequences thereof, they on their part remain untouched. Recently the Thai government came down heavily on those involved in human trafficking in their country including some army generals. But unfortunately in our country the organized human traffickers are still enjoying a relatively free run. No warlike situation is prevailing in Bangladesh like in Syria. Nor the country is experiencing famine like in Ethiopia and Somalia so that such a state of deprivation forces some of our people to take great risks in departing from their country. Why should then our people in considerable number want to turn their back on their own country encountering so much peril ? Clearly, the impunity with which human traffickers can carry out their activities in Bangladesh, is the single most important reason why this awful trading in human misery is still not coming to a close. In the wake of recent happenings of Bangladeshis in droves caught while trying to sail deceptively to Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and even Australia in hardly seaworthy boats, our law enforcers should have swooped down on the well identified racketeers who form the local networks behind human trafficking. But no deep and driving actions are yet to be taken against them. Thus, it is no wonder that human trafficking from Bangladesh continues rather unabated.