Trafficker B is a male from a farming community in Burundi, where he lived with four brothers and sisters and had a tough childhood living in poverty and depending on farming. He was educated until the seventh grade. He came to Bujumbura to escape the harsh realities of farm life. He traffics people so he can make enough money to open his own shoe store. He is introduced to people he traffics though friends and promises them a good paying job in the city, such as a shoe seller, hairdresser, and hotel worker. He also tells victims they will be able to go to secondary school in the city. The trafficking route he uses is from rural areas to Bujumbura, mostly via bus. Once in the city, most of his victims, who are all young, around the age of 15, are forced to work as barmaids, dancers, and waitresses. His victims can only move around when accom- panied because they owe a debt of Fr 10,000 each for the trafficking “service”. Courtesy of the IOM International Organisation for Immigration
Posted on: Sun, 11 May 2014 18:00:01 +0000
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