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Child laborers from Myanmar rescued from slavery
By Wang Qingchu |
November 10, 2011, Thursday
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SEVEN teenagers of Myanmar nationality were cheated into slavery in a textile factory in Yuyao, a city in the eastern Zhejiang Province, and were frequently abused.
Police found two Burmese teens on a highway after they escaped from the factory and had been walking along the highway for three days, starved and exhausted, the local Qianjiang Evening News reported today.
The two teens, their gender not mentioned in the report, were recruited at a job fair held on China's border with Myanmar. After they arrived in the factory, their passports and mobile phones were confiscated by the employer and they worked in an enclosed workshop with guards to prevent them from fleeing, the report said.
They were locked up with other Burmese workers and received no pay at all. Whenever they asked for payment, they were beaten up, the teenagers said.
Police raided the textile factory following the report of the two Burmese teens and found five more underage Burmese workers.
"The working condition is horrible. The place is muddy and nasty, just like a pigpen," a police officer named Wang Zhangjun told the newspaper.
The factory owner had fled before the police arrived. The case is still under investigation.
Police found two Burmese teens on a highway after they escaped from the factory and had been walking along the highway for three days, starved and exhausted, the local Qianjiang Evening News reported today.
The two teens, their gender not mentioned in the report, were recruited at a job fair held on China's border with Myanmar. After they arrived in the factory, their passports and mobile phones were confiscated by the employer and they worked in an enclosed workshop with guards to prevent them from fleeing, the report said.
They were locked up with other Burmese workers and received no pay at all. Whenever they asked for payment, they were beaten up, the teenagers said.
Police raided the textile factory following the report of the two Burmese teens and found five more underage Burmese workers.
"The working condition is horrible. The place is muddy and nasty, just like a pigpen," a police officer named Wang Zhangjun told the newspaper.
The factory owner had fled before the police arrived. The case is still under investigation.
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