Malaysia finds graves of 139 suspected trafficking victims

Lets not talk too much about the fact that these are mostly desperate people and we aren't helping them. Its easy to hate on traffickers for the evil they do, but for all that get killed, how many owe their lives and freedom to traffickers? How many poor, yet better, working conditions?

Nah. Lets call them evil and pat ourselves on the back for being so good.

Poor people. Their plight sounds so desperate.

"and we aren't helping them"

By "we" you of course mean Asia: Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Thailand, Japan, South Korea, etc.

My own native western country has a small population and is quite far away took in nearly 150,000 refugees last year.

Well JeffLee, I am not going to elaborate too much, because what I say I know will be extremely unpopular.

But as nice as taking in refugees is its not what is really needed because there will only be more refugees, then more, and more. They need help at home. They need ways to make a living at home. Or at least ways to make a money then go back home. Taking in hoards of non-political refugees is not a long term solution. And it amounts to patting oneself on the back in the grand scheme of things, just as I said in the first post.

There are lots of services these people could be offering but they are restricted. I suppose one I could utter is nursing the elderly, especially in places like Japan. But it seems the popular will that these people die rather than work for low wages ( will be called slavery) or inconvenience us with their culture and language barriers.

Living Memory is right on two points; many refugees do get helped by people traffickers, and yes, the best solution is to sort things out in their home countries as this would be better for the both the refugees and us for us as we would not feel pressured to absorb them. But the it is abhorrent that the traffickers make so much money out of desperate people, and totally unacceptable that they sometimes callously kill such numbers of people in the process.

@Tony W.

But the it is abhorrent that the traffickers make so much money out of desperate people, and totally unacceptable that they sometimes callously kill such numbers of people in the process.

Of course it is! But I don't think its so far off to imagine that if most of these people's graves were not there, they would have been somewhere else in a time frame not so different. I hope the killers are caught and never see the light of day again. More than that, I hope measures are taken to improve the lot of people who get mixed up with human traffickers so they never need to go to them.

But again, I cannot elaborate, because people really won't like my ideas of how their lot can be improved. Some will consider my suggestions "worse than death" although I think those about to die will beg to differ.