Alor Setar, Malaysia (Rohingya Vision) – A human trafficker based in Malaysia has been posing threats to the trafficking victims’ relatives in Malaysia as well as in Myanmar (Burma) for ransom for a few weeks now, according to their statements.
The human trafficker is reportedly well-connected with the authorities in Rakhine state of Myanmar. He is also said to be very rich and have hired local goons as his bodyguards in Malaysia.
“He took a number of people on his boat to traffick them from Arakan (Rakhine) state to Malaysia via Thailand around two years ago.
He took half of the ransom money from them before they got on the boat. However, the boat disappeared in the middle of the sea. No information of them has been heard since then.
Therefore, he could not demand any ransom from their (the boat people’s) family members. As after two years, since their family members now got their information that they have been in Sri Lanka while a few of them have been resettled to US by UNHCR after their boat stranded in the Sri Lankan shore, the human trafficker started to demand the remaining ransom money from their respective family members in Myanmar and in Malaysia. (Courtesy of Rohingya Vision TV)
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