Fishermen

Shopkeepers
Policeman

Walk to boats by the brokers assistants

(Who are usually local people)

Seekers are kept in houses along the boat and nabbed of all their bel

Teknaf and St. Martin Island

Diferent Distant of Bangladesh

Bengali

Rohingiya

Human
Trafficking

Captain of the most

of these vessels are
their nationals

The Coast
(Victims are separated
into groups named ofer
the godfather in Teknaf
out Coxs Bazar who
send them)

Kept in dense their jungle

and gradually shift from one
place to another for search
* and to facilitate intrusion
into Malaysia (*)

Terms of thoughts of people

in this predicament * beaten,
and * for *, whether at sea, in
the jungle comes on in often
areas in Malaysia

Human Trafficking

At least 2 vessels, carrying about 500 people

Leave Bangladeshi territory from about 20 nautical miles southeast of
the St. Martin Island trafficking led for.
Eight months a year
The business is down in June- September because of main and
turbulent sea.
Same 4000 people are trafficked in a month on about 32000 a year.
The random per victims as about 2-3.5 lac, the amount would stand at
64 ( distributed among people smuggled)
Multi- million dollar business
Local political Leader, Law enforcing agencies, mobile bank services,
Trafficking agent (shopkeeper, Fisherman, Policemen) Trafficking
(Who have connections knowledge about the victims).
Only in 2014, a total number of 53000 people from Bangladesh and
Myanmar voyaged to Thailand and Malaysia. ( UN report)
From 2011-2013, a total number of between 50000- 100000
jobseekers made voyaged to Thailand Theongh Reju canal estuary
alone (Abul Karim Help Ukhea, 2015).
10-15% of total victims, are Rohingyas ( According to local police
defers in average Rohingyas)
Captives are sold as a slaves at a price of $ 250 (according to Bengali
newspaper) on at a price of between $ 150 1550 (according to
Rauters news agencies).
According to The guardian Nepal (2013), The over 7 billion worth of
Thai seafood industry as build on slave labor Ghat Ships reach the
thai shops along the Andaman from north eastern direction
( Bangladesh Myanmar )
It is estimated by one of the daily newspaper that about 2-5 lack
Bangladeshi had been trafficked in last 4 years (based on the
information given by victims and right activists, and as therefore

definitive. It is rather a conservative estimate. The calculation was

done for the past eight years (up to June, 2015) because the
newspaper could not trace back victims only these far.
There are about 20 transit points in international Coxs Bazar Teknaf
area from where jobseekers/ * seekers/ victims bordered into the
Vessels/ Boats/ Ships/ Trawlers.
After arriving from different destination of the country * seekers are
kept in house along the Teknaf coast and * their belongings, even
their *
On the fixed dates, They are walked to the boat by the brokers
assistants, who usually local people.
Many of the captives/ slaves work in house along borders of the
countries for no pay as they
Many of the captives was controlled in a southern Thailand *Nubba
plantation deep in a jungle. Some of them were killed and buried in
the abandoned jungle camp located in Salao district of Songkhola
Province. Camps and mostly * by Thai women. These people were
*included mostly Bangladeshis. While few were Rohingiyas from
Myanmar. The Horrific story of the people include attributed, beaten,
abused and help with food and forced to work in plantation *
construction.
People who fall in trap of traffickers and voyaged to Thailand become
compelled to pay the * by the deadline and their helpless families sell
their last piece of land, often their homesteads take loans from local
lenders at high interest rates.
Both in the Thai and Baglalore parts, many government officials
including police and navy officials were being tried for involvement or
complicity in human trafficking.
During the first quarter of 2015, a total of 25999 * seekers left the bay
of Bengal, which was simply double that who left in the correspondent
* of 2014 or 2013 ( UNHCR).
Joe Lowny of * described this trafficking in the following way:
The boat got bigger, the sailing season got longer, the stakes and the
money got high.
According to UNHCR report, from January 2014 to 2015, a total
number people of 1.5 lac were trafficked by Boats and Ships through
the Bay of Bengal. Within the past 3 months of 2015. Approximately
25000 people, from the * * of the country were trafficked using
Teknaf, Ukhea, Coxs Bazar, Moheshkhali Port.