Paid to Be Slaves: Intellectual Burmese migrants in Singapore
June 25, 2007
Burmese educated young men had paid over millions of kyats (thousands of US dollars) to be slaves in Singapore, says a migrant worker. Most of them tell RFA that they are underpaid, with almost no off-day. They sometimes get threats from employers as well as work agents to fire or to send back Burma. Despite of double taxation from governments of Singapore and Burma, they had no protection from Burmese embassy or rarely from MOM, Singapore’s ministry of migrant workers.
Interviewees: Ko Min Lwin, an electrical engineer, Ko Myo, a Burmese graduate at a laundry factory, both in Singapore
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