Economic situation has to improve to stop human trafficking

INTERNATIONAL rights bodies have put renewed alert signals that human traffickers are preparing for fresh operations in the Bay of Bengal as the sailing season started this month after the monsoon. They also fear that considering the international attention on trafficking, they may change their patterns and use new routes to escape public attention. We wonder why the Bangladesh government is not cracking on the network before they start new trafficking again.  
Southeast Asia witnessed a serious migrant crisis in May this year after recovery of some mass graves and jungle detention camps in Thai forests close to Malaysian borders. The UN Refugee Agency said around 94,000 refugees and migrants left Bangladesh and Myanmar from January 2014 to June 2015. They were lured of jobs in Malaysia and then made hostage to pay huge ransom. Many perished in the jungle and in high sea as they failed to pay money to their captors.
The human traffickers exploit only the situation of economic crisis created by the government itself. The failure of the government to take the unemployment situation seriously is mainly to be blamed for why our poor unemployed men and women risk their lives to be allured by human smugglers. There must have been arrangement to see the human traffickers find Bangladesh not an easy place for doing business of human misery. But the government seems to welcome persons going abroad for jobs not available in the country. The government itself is engaged in human trafficking in the sense of exporting workers.
It is true that the human traffickers are likely to give a rosy picture that the Western countries are taking economic migrants. But our people must be made aware of the fact that the West is not ready to accept migrants and so we have also to ensure the traffickers do not mislead our unemployed poor ones.