straight to the Captain. The ship Captain is the King of the Sea and there are so many kings in
that sea.
Migrant workers from Cambodia and Myanmar are forced to work in Thai fishing industry, Life
on a 15-meter trawler is brutal, violent and unpredictable. 20 hours work day. Those who were
too ill to work or disobedient were thrown overboard after being shot. Many of these slave ships
stay out at sea for years at a time, trading slaves from one boat to another and being serviced by
cargo boats, which travel out from Thai ports towards international borders to pick up the slave
boats’ catch and drop off supplies.
Sex Slaves
Thai women returning home after being rescued from forced prostitution at a brothel overseas.
Thailand is doing too little to prevent human trafficking into the sex trade, fishing-related
industries and domestic servitude.
Karen Child Slave
A 13-year-old Burmese girl who was tortured for five years by a Thai couple who treated her as
a slave has finally been awarded $143,000 in compensation by a local court. “The couple is still
at large, but lawyers will investigate all of the employers’ properties to compensate her”. Only