Former advisor to the caretaker government and Executive Director of Ain-o Shalish Kendra Sultana Kamal yesterday called upon all to resist human trafficking, and urged the government to bring the traffickers to book.
She came up with the speech while addressing a human chain at Kotbazar Station Chattar of Ukhia on Cox’s Bazar-Teknaf highway yesterday morning.
Human Rights Defenders’ Forum in association with Cox’s Bazar Relief International organised the road march and human chain to protest the human trafficking.
Speaking as the chief guest, Sultana Kamal demanded the government to bring back those who were earlier trafficked to Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia.
The road show was attended by rights activists, lawyers, teachers and youths, said HRDF Member Secretary Mizanur Rahman Bahadur.
According to the UN Refugee Agency, 88,000 people from the coasts of Bangladesh and Myanmar took the sea journeys to Malaysia through Thailand, and 300 of them died at the sea.
