End human trafficking ‘scourge,’ PBBM

orders, as 6 Pinoys saved

PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. wants the human trafficking scourge in the country eradicated, Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin said on Friday.

This developed as at least six Filipinos who fell victim to a human trafficking scheme in Myanmar have returned to the Philippines, after being tortured and forced to pay up to P300,000 each by their employers.

Sixty more Filipinos remain captive in Myanmar, authorities added.

“The statement of the President is strong, and his desire is to eradicate trafficking in persons as it is another form of slavery,”

Bersamin told reporters on the sidelines of the meeting of the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) at the AFP commissioned officers’ clubhouse in Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City. “So, the PAOCC has been given this task to run after the criminals committing this trafficking in persons, and to rescue the people who were victims of this crime,” he said.