"They keep bringing more people even though there are no jobs," Bangladesh's High Commissioner to Brunei Mahmud Hussain told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Hannan Sikdar, 22, sold his family's land to raise the $3,500 that he paid a broker in Bangladesh for a job in Brunei. After reaching Brunei, Sikdar went to work for a week, then was told not to come again. Migrant activist Shakirul Islam welcomed the government's move against the suspected human traffickers and said trafficking cases should be filed against them. Both Bangladesh and Brunei are on a US State Department watchlist over their human trafficking record, putting them at risk of a downgrade that would trigger sanctions limiting access to international aid.

Source: bd News24 October 04, 2019 16:07 UTC