BANGKOK: Human traffickers in Thailand have ignored court orders to compensate victims in more than 99% of cases in recent years, fuelling fears that many survivors could be re-trafficked, data obtained exclusively by the Thomson Reuters Foundation revealed.
Thai courts have ordered traffickers to pay their victims more than 130mil baht (RM18mil) for damages caused in about 1,335 cases since 2014, according to the latest available statistics from the Office of the Attorney General.
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