111 human traffickers charged in Myanmar in five months


The porous Thai-Myanmar border allows traffickers to ferry their cargo of victims,unnoticed by the authorities.

YANGON (Xinhua): A total of 111 traffickers were charged in connection with human trafficking cases across Myanmar in five months this year, official media reported Thursday (June 18).

As of May this year, Myanmar logged 43 cases of human trafficking in the country's regions and states, the anti-trafficking police force was quoted as saying.

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