Morocco Rescues 39 Citizens from Human Trafficking Networks in Southeast Asia

Responding to a question asked by the parliamentary group of the Popular Movement, the minister explained that these young Moroccans were lured by gang members with enticing promises of jobs in e-commerce. He also specified that their number is 39 victims and not more than 100 as reported by some media. There were 24 in Myanmar, five in Laos and five others in Cambodia, detailed the head of Moroccan diplomacy. He added: the ministry had recently worked in coordination with the Moroccan embassy in Thailand to provide material and administrative assistance to facilitate the return of five other citizens held in Cambodia.

These efforts had been carried out in a prudent and discreet approach, due to the need to ensure the physical safety of the Moroccan citizens concerned, as well as the sensitivity of the problems posed by the areas where they were located, located on borders between Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar, as well as in certain regions of Myanmar that are very complex in terms of security and politics, due to the presence of armed groups escaping the control of the authorities, stressed Nasser Bourita.