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Judi Lynn

(160,621 posts) Wed Jul 1, 2015, 02:25 PM Jul 2015

Myanmar fisherman goes home after 22 years as a slave

Source: Associated Press

Myanmar fisherman goes home after 22 years as a slave
By MARGIE MASON, Associated Press | July 1, 2015 | Updated: July 1, 2015 10:52am

TUAL, Indonesia (AP) — All he did was ask to go home.

The last time the Burmese slave made the same request, he was beaten almost to death. But after being gone eight years and forced to work on a boat in faraway Indonesia, Myint Naing was willing to risk everything to see his mother again.

So he threw himself on the ground and begged for freedom. Instead, the captain vowed to kill him for trying to jump ship, and chained him for three days without food or water.

He was afraid he would disappear. And that his mother would have no idea where to look.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/world/article/Myanmar-fisherman-goes-home-after-22-years-as-a-6359678.php

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Myanmar fisherman goes home after 22 years as a slave (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jul 2015 OP

Yet we don't need labels of origin on our food. dbackjon Jul 2015 #1

Fish has labels now... pipoman Jul 2015 #2

Those labels will be unceremoniously ripped off once the TPP goes into effect. Elmer S. E. Dump Jul 2015 #3

If true, so will my food shopping habits. closeupready Jul 2015 #5

I might become a vegan yet! Elmer S. E. Dump Jul 2015 #6

Change of dinner plans. gvstn Jul 2015 #4

this man represents the seafood sold at Wal_mart passiveporcupine Jul 2015 #7

dbackjon

(6,578 posts)

1. Yet we don't need labels of origin on our food.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Jul 1, 2015, 02:32 PM

Jul 2015

Fuckers.

pipoman

(16,038 posts)

2. Fish has labels now...

Reply to dbackjon (Reply #1)

Wed Jul 1, 2015, 02:36 PM

Jul 2015

Like to see the rest labeled too...

Elmer S. E. Dump

(5,751 posts)

3. Those labels will be unceremoniously ripped off once the TPP goes into effect.

Reply to pipoman (Reply #2)

Wed Jul 1, 2015, 03:02 PM

Jul 2015

closeupready

(29,503 posts)

5. If true, so will my food shopping habits.

Reply to Elmer S. E. Dump (Reply #3)

Wed Jul 1, 2015, 03:29 PM

Jul 2015

Elmer S. E. Dump

(5,751 posts)

6. I might become a vegan yet!

Reply to closeupready (Reply #5)

Wed Jul 1, 2015, 03:43 PM

Jul 2015

gvstn

(2,805 posts)

4. Change of dinner plans.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Jul 1, 2015, 03:09 PM

Jul 2015

No shrimp tonight. Or possibly ever again.

passiveporcupine

(8,175 posts)

7. this man represents the seafood sold at Wal_mart

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Jul 1, 2015, 07:25 PM

Jul 2015

In this May 15, 2015 photo, Myint Naing, 40, a former slave fisherman who spent more than two decades in Indonesia after being enslaved on Thai fishing boats, rests at a government social welfare hostel in Yangon, Myanmar, after returning to his home country the day before. Slavery has operated for decades as an open secret in Southeast Asia's waters, where unscrupulous companies rely on slaves to supply fish to major supermarkets and stores worldwide.

Provided by SE Asian slave labor.

Thanks Wal_Mart!

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