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Rescuing Nepalese Victims Of Human Trafficking From Haiti
By KTM Metro Reporter
October 27, 2012: a spokesman for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said that after 11 months, it has helped to rescue two Nepalese men from the prison-like conditions in Haiti staying at the mercy of human traffickers that had promised them jobs in the United States, and send them back to Nepal.
A human smuggling network had promised these two men in the 30s legal immigration and jobs in the US for a large sum of money, and brought them to Haiti. “They were kept as virtual prisoners with little food and dirty drinking water,” the spokesman said, they took away their passports, and demanded more money.
When the two victims called their families in Nepal and asked for more cash, describing their conditions in Haiti, their loved ones contacted Nepalese police that alerted the police units of the UN Nepalese peacekeeping mission in Haiti.
“It was very hard finding the area, because these men were in prison. They didn’t see where they were. But finally through hard work they found them and they were rescued,” the spokesman said. IOM helped the two men return back to Nepal.
“This case confirms that Haiti is a country of origin, transit and destination for human trafficking and migrant smuggling,” IOM’s mission chief in Haiti, Gregoire Goodstein, said in a statement.
