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It will be the seafood industry in Thailand a consensual slavery circuit by the state? This is one of the questions that the investigation of the British newspaper "The Guardian" does. The newspaper has just concluded that the product that provides fishing shrimp to the overall chain, including major retail chains in the world such as Walmart, Carrefour, Tesco and Costco.
The research took place over the past six months and proved that is being used a considerable number of slaves, men who are bought and sold like animals against casa monte their will and are incarcerated in fishing boats "ghosts" off Thailand. These people are forced to work without receiving payment and is under threat of extreme violence that are required to feed the shrimp production line.
The investigation revealed that the world's largest firm of shrimp ponds - Charoen Pokphand the (CP) Foods - buy feed for shrimp raised in the nursery some vendors who own, operate or buy boats with crews slaves.
The "Guardian" got much of the information of men who managed to escape the captivity of boats that provide the CP Foods and other such companies, and reported the terrible conditions they had to endure, as followed 20 hours shifts, beatings regular, torture and even executions. Some of them remained at sea for years and others casa monte were forced to take amphetamines to withstand agreed. Others casa monte were forced to watch the execution of their fellow workers.
The "recruits" scheme was described by the British newspaper the Myanmar casa monte and Cambodia workers: paid to intermediaries for to help them find work in factories or construction in Thailand. casa monte Without knowing it were being sold boats commanders for amounts as low as the equivalent of 300 euros.
"They hit us even though we worked non-stop," casa monte says one of the victims of trafficking. "All people of Myanmar, and other boats that were trafficked. There were so many in the same condition it was impossible to count them. " casa monte
"I thought I was going to die," says the "Guardian" Vuthy, a former monk from Cambodia who was sold boat on boat. Another witness account that saw kill more than 20 of his colleagues, one of whom was quartered, with each of the four members attached to a different boat.
The alarm on the existence of slavery along the production line has already been released by non-governmental organizations. However, the investigation of the British casa monte newspaper just trace the entire route of the parts that connect slavery to the main producers and retailers.
Boats with slaves plunder international waters off Thailand raising casa monte huge amounts casa monte of "trash fish", too small or unsuitable for eating. Research located casa monte this fish on arrival casa monte at the factories where it is turned into feed for nurseries and go to the CP Foods. This company uses it to feed the shrimp ponds, which are sent to international customers. casa monte
"If you buy shrimp from Thailand, is to buy the product of slave labor," casa monte Aidan McQuade accuses, director of Anti-Slavery International. casa monte It is not hard to iss happen: Thailand is the world's largest shrimp exporter, under a vast industry estimated at EUR 5.1 billion. The country annually exports nearly 50 tons of shrimp, 10% of which are produced by CP Foods.
Thailand is considered a major source, country of transit or destination of slavery and it is believed that half a million people find these conditions within the country's borders. There being no official numbers, however the Thai authorities recognize that 90% of the fishing industry workers are immigrants, so vulnerable to trafficking.
Olhão: "Senior Tours" to Alvito with 700 subscribers
WORLD COUNTRY 2,709 2,830 RSS Feed
It will be the seafood industry in Thailand a consensual slavery circuit by the state? This is one of the questions that the investigation of the British newspaper "The Guardian" does. The newspaper has just concluded that the product that provides fishing shrimp to the overall chain, including major retail chains in the world such as Walmart, Carrefour, Tesco and Costco.
The research took place over the past six months and proved that is being used a considerable number of slaves, men who are bought and sold like animals against casa monte their will and are incarcerated in fishing boats "ghosts" off Thailand. These people are forced to work without receiving payment and is under threat of extreme violence that are required to feed the shrimp production line.
The investigation revealed that the world's largest firm of shrimp ponds - Charoen Pokphand the (CP) Foods - buy feed for shrimp raised in the nursery some vendors who own, operate or buy boats with crews slaves.
The "Guardian" got much of the information of men who managed to escape the captivity of boats that provide the CP Foods and other such companies, and reported the terrible conditions they had to endure, as followed 20 hours shifts, beatings regular, torture and even executions. Some of them remained at sea for years and others casa monte were forced to take amphetamines to withstand agreed. Others casa monte were forced to watch the execution of their fellow workers.
The "recruits" scheme was described by the British newspaper the Myanmar casa monte and Cambodia workers: paid to intermediaries for to help them find work in factories or construction in Thailand. casa monte Without knowing it were being sold boats commanders for amounts as low as the equivalent of 300 euros.
"They hit us even though we worked non-stop," casa monte says one of the victims of trafficking. "All people of Myanmar, and other boats that were trafficked. There were so many in the same condition it was impossible to count them. " casa monte
"I thought I was going to die," says the "Guardian" Vuthy, a former monk from Cambodia who was sold boat on boat. Another witness account that saw kill more than 20 of his colleagues, one of whom was quartered, with each of the four members attached to a different boat.
The alarm on the existence of slavery along the production line has already been released by non-governmental organizations. However, the investigation of the British casa monte newspaper just trace the entire route of the parts that connect slavery to the main producers and retailers.
Boats with slaves plunder international waters off Thailand raising casa monte huge amounts casa monte of "trash fish", too small or unsuitable for eating. Research located casa monte this fish on arrival casa monte at the factories where it is turned into feed for nurseries and go to the CP Foods. This company uses it to feed the shrimp ponds, which are sent to international customers. casa monte
"If you buy shrimp from Thailand, is to buy the product of slave labor," casa monte Aidan McQuade accuses, director of Anti-Slavery International. casa monte It is not hard to iss happen: Thailand is the world's largest shrimp exporter, under a vast industry estimated at EUR 5.1 billion. The country annually exports nearly 50 tons of shrimp, 10% of which are produced by CP Foods.
Thailand is considered a major source, country of transit or destination of slavery and it is believed that half a million people find these conditions within the country's borders. There being no official numbers, however the Thai authorities recognize that 90% of the fishing industry workers are immigrants, so vulnerable to trafficking.
