One day in Thailand I met a broker who persuaded me to work on a boat, he said I could 10,000 baht… When I. arrived at the port I saw 26 Khmer people on board, so I felt ok about it. However, when we were in the middle of the sea, the Thai people told us we had each been sold for 10,000 baht. If we had been near the port I would have jumped overboard to escape. But we were already in the sea so I could not escape… they told me that if I worked slowly it wouldn’t be enough to repay the debt that they paid to the seller. They had paid the broker 10,000 baht for my labour for three years.
Narrative provided by Hagar International, in the report Reintegration of Cambodian Trafficked Men, by Kate Day
