These have been big news in SE Asia recently and with reason: there are credible reports of kidnapped people being tortured to death. In desperately poor Cambodia and Laos, the regional police are on the syndicates' payroll, and in the lawless border regions of Myanmar the central government has no sway whatsoever.
A corollary to this are the infamous fish processing boats of Thailand, where illegal immigrants (mostly from Myanmar) are held as slaves and simply pushed into the sea once they outlive their usefulness.
A corollary to this are the infamous fish processing boats of Thailand, where illegal immigrants (mostly from Myanmar) are held as slaves and simply pushed into the sea once they outlive their usefulness.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/jul/20/t...