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Interview Zaw Min Oo held as Slave Labor on Indonesia fishing boat Part 1

Zaw Min Oo

Zaw Min Oo Source: Yu Lwin Soe

In May and June 2015, due to an AP news agency investigation, 575 Burmese people trapped in slave labor were rescued from Indonesian fishing boats and Mr. Zaw Min Oo was one of them.


Mr. Zaw Min Oo,  who is 28 years old, was held as a part of the forced labor and slavery on Indonesia's Benjina island for five years and said that since he arrived there he was mistreated and tortured.

 

 


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