Nasser Bourita, Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Abroad, discusses the release of young Moroccans held captive and tortured by criminal networks in Burma and reveals the exact number.
Responding to a question posed by the parliamentary group of the Popular Movement, the minister explained that these young Moroccans were lured by members of the gang with tempting promises of employment in e-commerce. Also, he specified that their number amounts to 39 victims and not more than 100 as reported by some media. There were 24 of them in Burma, five in Laos, and five others in Cambodia, detailed the head of Moroccan diplomacy. He added: that the ministry had recently worked in coordination with the Moroccan embassy in Thailand to provide material and administrative assistance to facilitate the return of five other citizens held in Cambodia.
These efforts were carried out in a cautious and discreet approach, due to the need to guarantee the physical security of the Moroccan citizens concerned, as well as the sensitivity of the problems posed by the areas where they were located, located on the borders between Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Burma, as well as in certain regions of Burma that are very complex in terms of security and politics, due to the presence of armed groups beyond the control of the authorities, Nasser Bourita stressed.
