Indian police 救助(する) 180 Nepalis in major anti-trafficking 操作/手術

By Roli Srivastava

MUMBAI, Feb 5 (Thomson Reuters 創立/基礎) - Indian police have 救助(する)d more than 180 Nepali men and women in a major 操作/手術 近づく the 国境 with Myanmar after 行動主義者s raised 疑惑s they were 存在 trafficked into 軍隊d 労働.

Police in the northeast Indian 明言する/公表する of Manipur said they had 逮捕(する)d four Nepalis in the main city of Imphal and 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金d them with human trafficking. Other 逮捕(する)s had been made どこかよそで, they said.

"We got 明確な/細部 inputs from 確かな NGOs (非,不,無-政府 organisations) who were 警報d by 親族s that their family members had gone without their knowledge and 許可," said Manipur's director general of police L.M. Khaute.

"So there was 状況証拠 that this could be human trafficking," he told the Thomson Reuters 創立/基礎.

選挙運動者s say traffickers are using the road between India and Myanmar to 輸送(する) 労働者s 不法に to other Southeast Asian countries or the Middle East without going through Indian airports, where checks have 強めるd.

Most of the 183 people 救助(する)d so far had either flown to India from Nepal or travelled by road. 選挙運動者s 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑う others may have already crossed into Myanmar.

"This is an 平易な road 大勝する for 労働 trafficking," said Hasina Khabhih, 創立者 of Impulse NGO 網状組織, which helps 明言する/公表する 当局 行為/行う 救助(する) 操作/手術s.

選挙運動者s who spoke to the 救助(する)d men and women said they had been 約束d work 許すs and new パスポートs and in some 事例/患者s the スパイ/執行官s had kept their 初めの 文書s.

"There is 完全にする 労働 開発/利用 in such 事例/患者s," said Bishwo Khadka, 長,率いる of Maiti Nepal, one of the charities that tipped off Indian 当局.

"They are not 供給するd what they have been 約束d. There are hundreds of 事例/患者s of girls working in the Middle East who call us for help because they are 限定するd and are not paid what they were 約束d," Khadka said by phone from Nepal.

Khadka was to 飛行機で行く to India on Tuesday to help 本国に送還する the 救助(する)d Nepalis.

South Asia is the fastest-growing and second-largest 地域 for human trafficking in the world after East Asia, によれば the 国際連合 Office for 麻薬s and 罪,犯罪 (UNODC).

犠牲者s, mostly from poor 田舎の areas, are 誘惑するd by traffickers with 約束s of good 職業s, only to find themselves 軍隊d to work in fields or brick kilns, enslaved in homes as 国内の 労働者s, or as 売春婦s.

伝統的に, traffickers have used Nepal as a 輸送 point to send women to the 湾. But trafficking through Myanmar is now on the rise, police say. (報告(する)/憶測ing by Roli Srivastava @Rolionaroll; Editing by Claire Cozens. Please credit Thomson Reuters 創立/基礎, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers 人道的な news, women's and LGBT+ 権利s, human trafficking, 所有物/資産/財産 権利s, and 気候 change. Visit http://news.信用.org)

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