| Brazil (Times of India) -The Brazilian federal police have rescued 80 Bangladeshis in Brasilia.All the Bangladeshis, who were lured with the promise of receiving a salary of US$1,500 a month, had reached Brazil after paying $10,000 each to the traffickers.Travelling more than 16,000km from their homes,Wholesale Authentic Jerseys, the Bangladeshis entered Brazil without visas from three neighbouring countries: Peru, Bolivia and Guyana.The Bangladeshi embassy in Brasilia, the capital city Brazil, has expressed surprise at the news but it has offered its support to the Brazilian authorities in their investigation.The victims have not been arrested but advised to seek refugee status. Their cases will now be decided by the National Council for Refugees.According to the National Secretary of Justice, Paul Abram, Brazilian law provides that victims of human trafficking and people working in degrading conditions can get resident visas on humanitarian grounds.“The first step is to confirm the occurrence of trafficking and slave labour since the simple fact of being identified as victims of trafficking gives them protection from the Brazilian state,” the secretary told reporters in Brasilia.The federal police launched an operation,Wholesale NFL Jerseys China, called “Freedom”, after noticing a sharp rise in the number of asylum claims by Bangladeshis in recent years. In 2010, there were 39 such cases but the number went up to 111 in 2011. Last year, the Bangladeshis were one of the four countries from where Brazil gets the maximum number of asylum seekers and refugees.On Wednesday, the federal police teams, tracking the victims, found them in six places in Fern, a satellite town of Brasilia.According to the police, all the victims were living in very bad conditions, with 20 people crammed into a room. Currently unemployed, they have been looking for work in the construction sector. Now, some of them are afraid of going back to their country,Authentic Australia NBA Jerseys Outlet, where the majority of population is trapped in poverty.Melad Ahmed, 35,Jerseys Cheap NFL, came to Brazil illegally to work in poultry industry in Parana state, but he was taken to Brasilia. “I cannot go back. In Dhaka, I have no job and money. Here, I can work in construction, slaughter house and Indian restaurants. I will do any service,” Ahmed told Estadao de Sao Paulo newspaper in his broken English.“If I return to Bangladesh, I will have trouble with the police.”Leaving his wife and son in Dhaka, according to Estadao, Ahmed travelled from Dhaka to Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia, with stops in Dubai,NFL Jerseys China Online, Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires. From Bolivia, he took buses to Parana and from there he arrived in the federal capital.The growth of new routes being used by international traffickers to bring illegal immigrants to Brazil has set the alarm bells ringing in Brazil. The first to use these routes were Haitians, who received special treatment due to the critical situation in their country.However, the same routes are now being used by Africans and Asians who pass seven different countries until they reach the border of Brazil, often paying thousands of dollars to middlemen and smugglers who take them to Brazil through the porous borders with Peru and Bolivia,NFL Jerseys China Cheap, which are covered in heavy vegetation and difficult to patrol.With its economy growing and the wages getting better, Brazil is now becoming a destination for migrants from poor countries, including Bangladesh. |
