A total of
one-hundred-and-ninety-one human trafficking cases has been exposed across the
country in the first nine months of 2019 according to the Myanmar
Anti-Trafficking Police Force.
It said that from January
to September 2019, 556 traffickers were charged in connection with the cases
and 279 people were victimised. It added that altogether 25 people including
seven children were victimised, while 54 traffickers were charged in connection
with 15 human trafficking cases in September alone.
Under Myanmar’s 2005
Anti-Trafficking in Persons Law, people who smuggle women and children were
sentenced to at least 10 years or up to lifetime sentence or fine.
Also, money or property
received through trafficking will be confiscated by the government.
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