Tsunami Orphans Being Sold By Criminal Gangs
 

UN registers Aceh orphans

There are fears that orphans could be vulnerable to criminal gangs
The UN children's agency, Unicef, has begun registering thousands of tsunami orphans in Aceh in a bid to protect them from human traffickers.
Unicef spokesman John Budd said one registration centre in Banda Aceh was already in operation.

There have been fears that human traffickers have started targeting the orphaned survivors of the tsunami.

Thai police said a possible case, of a Swedish boy missing in Phuket, did not appear to have been abducted.

Police said the boy, Kristian Walker, was never registered in the hospital he was supposedly taken from.

Mr Budd said one registration centre for orphans in Aceh was set up on Tuesday and several others would be in operation throughout the province by the end of next week.

He said that this was necessary because children remained extremely vulnerable.

"It increases enormously their never being reunited with their family and their vulnerability to exploitation in some way," he told the BBC News website.

Mr Budd said there had already been two cases of children being smuggled out of Aceh in recent days.

He said that in both cases, their abductors had been arrested and the children rescued.

Mr Budd also said there were unconfirmed reports of up to 20 other children being taken to Malaysia, and possible hundreds to Jakarta. And he has recently become aware of an SMS message being sent widely around Asia advertising 300 Aceh orphans for sale.

The Indonesian government has already banned children from leaving Aceh without their parents in an attempt to guard against child traffickers.

Jakarta estimates that some 35,000 children have been orphaned as a result of the 26 December tsunami.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4148481.stm

It's so corupt over there a Majority of the aid money will not make it to those who need it and that's a fact

sometimes this world just plain old sucks ! KILL the fuckin pedos and kidnappers by dipping them in vats full of fire ants

SMS Spam Used To Sell Kids WTF

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"Mr Budd also said there were unconfirmed reports of up to 20 other children being taken to Malaysia, and possible hundreds to Jakarta. And he has recently become aware of an SMS message being sent widely around Asia advertising 300 Aceh orphans for sale. "

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True, not to mention Red Cross pockets half of all donations.......... :Oh crap :Oh crap :Oh crap

They got bills to pay too

WTF :disgust

Yeah, the world sucks and then you die.

I think he meant the red cross, not the human traffickers....

i saw we nuke everyone in the middle east and a few other select countrys (india being one) the world is better off without them

I think that if those people are lucky, they will get 1/4 of the money being donated.

I remember the ceo of goodwill getting nailed for taking money etc.

Sadly you're right because it is a fact...

ebay?(8charssuck)

gotta feel sorry for the kids. :(

I never thought about trafficking kids but I sure thought that there would be some hot thai chicks that would welcome living in a garage in america right about now.

Yeah makes you not want to donate............ :(

All help organizations are basically scams.. Non-profit means they inflate their own wages..

I cant remember who it was i saw recently doing some relief work, but it ended up this woman(celebrity) got paid half a million dollars of "relief" funds to do the show to get more money. What kind of pond scum would take money from poor people to help poor people.

All of the children left orphaned is what really breaks my heart about this whole thing. Can you imagine how scared they are with no one to care for them? So sad! :(

cool i will take two

Yeah poor little kids.......... :( :( :(

Even sleazier they're saying people are taking kids who lost their parents so they can collect aid money and then will dump them once they get the cash.

That is nothing compared to having them sold into brothels :Oh crap :Oh crap :Oh crap

i wonder how much they charge per kid

What a fucked up place to be. Fucking savages.

FUcked Up BuT TrUE
I bet alot of em are better off being sold otherwise they'd just die of starvation..

Poor kids :( I can't imagine what they're going threw.

this is sad but I'm not surprised...thats how things go over there

I called this one day one. Anyone who has spent some real time in SE Asia and in some of the sleazy areas knew this was coming. Fucking heart breaking.

At least Sri Lanka is setting up check points and no adult with a child under 16 can pass. I doubt Thailand will do anything. At best, help them get to Bangkok where they can work in a sweat shop making t-shirts. Most will be sold as sex slaves. Worst case some would be sold to the Cambodian rape houses in Phenom Phen.

My heart goes out of those kids.

From what I hear, most of the red light areas of Phuket are back and running. Whores gotta eat, bars gotta get paid, tourists need to get laid.