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Most of 39 UK truck victims were likely from Vietnam: priest

YEN THANH, Vietnam (Reuters) - Most of the 39 people found dead in the back of a truck near London were likely from Vietnam, a local priest from the rural, rice-growing community where many of the victims are believed to have come from said on Saturday.



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Why would people from China, the world's second-biggest economy, risk their lives to enter the UK?
 

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Historical context
Vietnamese teens are tending Britain’s makeshift drug factories in empty buildings from suburban homes to a nuclear bunker. Here are their stories
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Armagh was found
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of all the identified trafficking victims who were forced into cannabis cultivation in 2012,
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“If you don’t do the watering properly, we will stop bringing you food and you will starve.”
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“Sometimes I could hear the noise of the pub opposite. When I heard people laughing, having fun with their friends, I felt sad and lonely."
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For several years, Tung was one of Britain’s cannabis slaves: a hidden group of exploited children, locked up alone and forced to tend plants in converted houses, in dangerous conditions. Like many other trafficked child cannabis gardeners, when the flat was raided, he was sent to prison.

" Later again, a group of young workers were taken and put into a cold shipping container, given a bag of bread and a bottle of water each, and kept there for around three months, while the ship travelled to a country that might have been France. He was later driven to the UK, smuggled above the wheels of a lorry.

The truck stopped in a forest in the UK, where he was shuffled into another vehicle and taken to a house. He was kept there for 10 months and forced into sex work
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"Like Bao, Tung was also forced into cannabis cultivation and prostitution. He left his home in rural Vietnam when he was 15, and arrived in the UK in the summer of 2010. His mother had paid £10,000 to send him to the UK to join his father, who had left because he couldn’t make ends meet as a farmer."

It is voluntary to some extent. Paid 10k euros to work as a slave and sex worker.

"He was told that the debts to his traffickers had spiralled to £100,000, so at night he was made to work as a prostitute. “I didn’t want to; I escaped, but they found me, beat me and told me bad things would happen to my mum and dad."

“I had no idea about being a victim or about slavery until I had an interview with someone from the Home Office for an asylum application,” Tung says. Looking back, he thinks it is an accurate description: “Yes, I felt I was a slave.”

They didn't know the concept of slavery.
 
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