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Cheated Workers from Malaysia

Rights bodies concerned over lack or govt steps

Siam Correspondent
Human rights bodies yesterday expressed grave concern over lack of government steps to udihrss Un- UvhmihIn ui ;gv hi cheated workers, who have been demonstrating at Zia International Airport after being forced to return home from Malaysia on Monday.
“We are deeply concerned over the inhumane return of Bangladeshi workers from abroad after being cheated by recruiting agencies,” said a press release of Bangladesh National Women Lawyers' Association (BNWLA) signed by its Executive Director Advocate Salma Ali.
These workers went to Malaysia in May 2007, but they were not issued work permits. Sometimes they were provided jobs, but whatever salary they got were taken away by the agents in the name of renewing wnrk permits and other fees.
They complained to the Bangladesh mission in Kuala Lumpur and the Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training in Dhaka repeatedly to address their issue, but the authorities failed to address their problems in two long years.
They returned home with the money they took from home and are now making strong demands for compensation from the recruiting agency — Tangail Overseas that processed their documents.
“We shall leave the airport in
the form ui corpus. but not without compensation,” said Abdul Hannan, one of the returnee workers. "We are fed up of complaining to the government and getting no remedies"
“Our ministers Mosharraf Hossain and Dipu Moni met us in Malaysia and assured us of help to get compensation, but they have not come to see us although it has been three days,” he said.
The inhuman situation of the 30 returnees is only an iceberg of a 1 arge number of workers suffering abroad, BNWLA said in the press release, demanding punitive actions against Tangail Overseas.
Meanwhile, IMA Research Foundation, a migrants' rights body, urged the prime minister to immediately look into the matter and address the problems of the returnee workers.
The 30 workers went to Malaysia in a group of 53. Three of them had returned home earlier, the 30 returned on Sunday, while the rest 20 cannot return home as their families had failed to send the money required to bring them back.
Each of the returnees had to spend around Tk 3.5 lakh to go to Malaysia, survive there and return home.