AMERICAN: SLAVERY DOES MALAYSIA MODE

Malaysia entered the list of countries that indirectly support the modern slavery and threatened not get help from Uncle Sam's country.

In addition to Malaysia, there are 16 countries in this group, including Chad, Niger, Mauritania and Zimbabwe is considered a worst offender, is not doing anything to stop human trafficking. Trafficking in Persons Report, it was announced Wednesday (17 / 6).

The report also stated that Cuba, Myanmar and North Korea was ranked lowest on the list since nine years ago.

According to the U.S. State Department, millions of people live in bondage and the global financial crisis makes it more vulnerable condition occurs and commercialization of human trafficking in sex. "The people who are stuck in economic difficulties, easily tempted to the lure of a better livelihood, they finally caught up in human trafficking," said State Department spokesman, Luis de Baca.

According to the data the International Labor Organization (ILO), approximately 12.3 million adults and children trapped in slavery, and 1.4 million of them became victims of sex trafficking. "They are employed in plantations and factories by entrepreneurs who threatened to brutal violence when they tried to escape. There is also work in the household, but their true slaves, "said Foreign Minister Hillary Clinton.

U.S. allegations against Malaysia's get the evidence, when a number of Indonesian women to be victims of violence by employers in the country's neighbors. The latter is Siti Hajar, citizens of Indonesia who suffered severe injuries due to torture her employer.

Above allegations, the Minister of Home Affairs of Malaysia, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein, said his government would ask for an explanation from the U.S.. "We will come to the U.S. Embassy, asked for an explanation why our country into the list again," he said.

Malaysia has entered the list in 2007, but was revoked in 2008. Hishammuddin said the country has done anything to stop human trafficking. "But there are limitations, namely the border areas of our country is so vast and long," said Hishammuddin.

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