THE global refugee crisis enters its fourth year but the demography of migrants reaching the European shores from Libya had already witnessed unprecedented shift from predominantly Syrians refugees to Bangladeshi nationals along with Afghans, Iraqis, Eritreans and people from Sub-Saharan countries. Moreover news about tragic death of migrants in the Mediterranean is shocking the world everyday but there is hardly any remedial measures at work – be it short-term or long term basis. War and violence continue in most regional countries and so exodus of migrants also continues.
But why Bangladesh can come to the forefront is the big question. Earlier Business Syndicates ran illegal human trade to Malaysia through Thailand. New stories about Bangladeshi nationals crowding in the Libyan coast show that human traffickers are misleading our youths now to the West. Invariably we must say when our leaders regularly tell about big development stories the ground reality is that we are both losing our hard earned capital in large scale capital flight and also our young people who could be used in local mills and factories productively to create jobs and their precious life. Our youths would not have fallen to human traffickers to lose everything if our leaderships were capable to run the country and develop the economy.
News reports galore often that Bangladeshi nationals in Libya were being held in bondage and families in Bangladesh were paying the ransom to free the boy to move onward to Italy. Many reach the Italian coast while many others drown in the sea.
According to media reports, the number of illegal migrants from Bangladesh to Europe has tremendously increased over the recent months. When there was just one in three months in the first quarter of last year, it rose to 2,800 during the first three months of 2017 making the country the largest single origin of migrants towards Europe. They are reportedly paying more than $10,000 (£7,750) each to be taken from Dhaka to Libya via Dubai or Turkey to the sailing point across the sea.
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said the route has dramatically changed the demographics of asylum-seekers to Europe. “The thing that’s really changing is the nationality of the migrants, and the number coming from Bangladesh,” IOM’s representative told the London based The Independent.
We must say the traffickers in Bangladesh are not unknown to immigration officials, law enforcers as well as to political leaders and yet why they are failing to stop them is the big question. They are endangering their lives in addition to bringing bad name to the nation. The government must find out the ‘agencies’ running such human trafficking, the slave trade must immediately stop.
But why Bangladesh can come to the forefront is the big question. Earlier Business Syndicates ran illegal human trade to Malaysia through Thailand. New stories about Bangladeshi nationals crowding in the Libyan coast show that human traffickers are misleading our youths now to the West. Invariably we must say when our leaders regularly tell about big development stories the ground reality is that we are both losing our hard earned capital in large scale capital flight and also our young people who could be used in local mills and factories productively to create jobs and their precious life. Our youths would not have fallen to human traffickers to lose everything if our leaderships were capable to run the country and develop the economy.
News reports galore often that Bangladeshi nationals in Libya were being held in bondage and families in Bangladesh were paying the ransom to free the boy to move onward to Italy. Many reach the Italian coast while many others drown in the sea.
According to media reports, the number of illegal migrants from Bangladesh to Europe has tremendously increased over the recent months. When there was just one in three months in the first quarter of last year, it rose to 2,800 during the first three months of 2017 making the country the largest single origin of migrants towards Europe. They are reportedly paying more than $10,000 (£7,750) each to be taken from Dhaka to Libya via Dubai or Turkey to the sailing point across the sea.
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said the route has dramatically changed the demographics of asylum-seekers to Europe. “The thing that’s really changing is the nationality of the migrants, and the number coming from Bangladesh,” IOM’s representative told the London based The Independent.
We must say the traffickers in Bangladesh are not unknown to immigration officials, law enforcers as well as to political leaders and yet why they are failing to stop them is the big question. They are endangering their lives in addition to bringing bad name to the nation. The government must find out the ‘agencies’ running such human trafficking, the slave trade must immediately stop.
