FE Report
Sushasoner Jonya Procharavizan (SUPRO), an advocacy group, expressed their grave concern on Friday over negligence of rights of the victims of recent human trafficking.
Hundreds of ill-fated Bangladeshi and Rohingya trafficking victims were feared to have been stranded at sea.
The rights-based NGO network also placed a set of demands including setting up a high-powered probe body, led by the United Nations, to hunt down the human traffickers and bring them to justice.
Their demands also include ensuring proper compensation for the victims from the countries responsible for creating the world's one of the worst human crises, rescue of ill-fated boatpeople and necessary efforts to send back the rescued migrants, relocation of climate-driven Bangladeshi migrants and creating awareness among the people against human trafficking.
The group voiced concern at a press meet held at the Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) where SUPRO's executive member KGM Faruque read out a position paper on behalf of the NGO network.
SUPRO vice chairperson Hosne Ara, director Alison Subrata Baroi and treasurer Madob Chanda Datta, among others, were also present.
The group also called upon the world leaders and their governments to come forward to help the helpless boatpeople.
"We hope the world leaders and the incumbent governments will take necessary actions to draw an immediate conclusion over the existing human crisis," Mr Faruque said.
However, the group also lambasted the governments of Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Myanmar for not responding to human crisis immediately.
"Unfortunately, we've observed that these countries aren't willing to offer assistance to the migrant victims, even they were not bothered about the UN's call in this regard," he noted.
According to the media report, since Thailand's recent crackdown threw the smuggling routes into disarray, more than 3,500 starving migrants have arrived in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, and others are still feared trapped at sea.
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