Narinjara News, 2 December 2022

Three women whodefrauded two twin sisters living in Sittwe township in Rakhine state of their wages, and also plotted to sell them to a Chineseman, have been sentenced to hard labor and 10 years in prison.

They persuaded two21-year-old twin sisters from the same village to work in a garment factory in Yangon with a salary of 250000 kyats, according to the newspapers butin reality they sent the two sistersto work at a store in Lashio, and a fish wholesale depot in Muse, and helped themselves to part of the girls’ wages.

Those who weresentenced are Ma Bu Chay (aka) Ma Chay Bu, Ma Aye Chay and Ma A Phyu Chay, residents of Ywar Thar Yar village in Sittwetownship.

The Sittwe DistrictCourt sentenced each of these three women to hard labor and 10 years in prison under Article 24/32 of the Law on thePrevention of Human Trafficking on November 23, asreported in the MilitaryCouncil-controlled newspapers on November 30.

Furthermore, theyplanned to sell the twins to a Chinese man hence a case was opened at the Sittwe Myoma Police Station under Article 24/32 ofthe Law on the Prevention of Human Trafficking.

The newspaperreported no details on when the two twin sisters were taken and how the culprits were arrested. Narinjara contacted the Sittwe Myomapolice station in this regard but was unable to get any response.