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a vibrant opposition determined to break the military's grip on government. i'm melissa chan this is news asia it's good to have you with us malnourished abused and unable to escape that's the fate of countless men who believed they had scored a promising job on a fishing boat but ended up as modern era slaves victims of human traffickers just how many slaves are out there is difficult to assess there's no oversight on international waters but monitoring groups say that forced labor and abuse are widespread in the fishing industry with profit margins low 3 and competition high fisheries push their workers to work long hours and in dangerous conditions many of these men come from southeast asia here's the story of one indonesian crew who

lived to tell the tale. a steady job with a good salary and a lucrative bonus that's the promise that tempts many indonesian men to leave their homes and they hope to see. but what they get is this that i don't hold out for to chili's by the indonesian seafarers movement shows crew members sleeping on the floor in the cargo hold looking malnourished and exhausted. one of them is run by tula. he says he was tricked by an indonesian recruiting agency traffic to somalia and forced to spend 9 months aboard a chinese fishing boat manning the nets and packing fish for 18 hours a day. at some. bonding when we didn't catch enough fish or squid we were beaten by the captain. diversity we were beaten

a lot i'm still traumatized by it but i was. on board the creek claim they were given a choice between going hungry and eating spoiled fish and they didn't even have clean water. in the layout. on the rare occasion we were given fish we could tell by the smell that the fish was already banned after smelling it we couldn't eat it when a daily basis all we got was cabbage and rice with a little salt. and we drank pronunciation of water that we collected from the air conditioner done what i would. run a tool and as cremates are now back home and they've taken photos and videos to document their experience experts say the fishing industry is riddled with forced labor and a predominantly targets pool workers from southeast asia. once on board there's no

way out for the men and they often mercilessly exploited from a tool and as cremate say thousands of dollars in unpaid wages. we're going to go though what i worked far away for my family so they could be proud of me when i returned home but the reality was different it's like a muscle uppercut me when i asked the recruitment company for our rights they said you're a stupid idiot we just want to ask for a ride. after working for 7 months when about how many. numerous n.g.o.s both local and international have run the alarm about the slave like conditions that seem to be commonplace on fishing vessels across the globe but it hasn't stopped men like these from falling into the hands of traffickers. in an aegis ministry of manpower is among other things tasked with the protection of its workers abroad the department head acknowledges the problem but says it's difficult to monitor labor

conditions at see. it that the law would go up but we're just starting 1st whether the information about the abused see pharaoh's is true or not. rely on data and facts so we can enforce sanctions lawfully in that country where the body double down on them. but as a raw material and his former crew mates no doubt are in fact difficult to obtain when you're at sea with no one watching the news because he got in the local he can make it any kind of now the university of western australia and the see around us research initiative have investigated forced labor on the high seas a little earlier i spoke to senior researcher david tickler about what they found we found a vicious cycle between over fishing and. basically slave labor subsidized

on economic activity. and the resulting overfishing then destroyed property b.o.t.a. and other incentivise and uses forced labor well it's hard to fish hard to fill their nets. and this is because the global catch has been declining steadily since the mid ninety's. the constant sweep squeeze on probability means that owners see more and more desperate measures to cut their costs through often the largest and easiest cost to cut to cut. and so slave labor is is the tactic of choice front groups operators we found almost 40 percent of the global catch came from fleets that were a high risk of modern slavery now it's not as if the media hasn't reported on this the associated press even want to pulitzer prize for its reporting on slavery in the seafood industry a few years ago and their investigation resulted in the release of

a couple 1000 workers from myanmar yet it doesn't look like much has changed why. because of the associated press reporting this issue is now getting more attention than ever before. and there has been change on the ground in 2015 e.u. issued a yellow card against thailand basically notifying it that if it didn't do something about illegal fishing and saber in its fisheries the e.u. would cut off access to the european market for seafood thailand's response was to completely redo its domestic issues legislation including putting in place sanctions horse labor and at the end of last year they were formally recognizing undocumented workers from places like me and mark and giving them full legal protections ready however it's still a major issue partly because importing these regulations is incredibly difficult especially when the offense is often taking place out at sea. there's also on going

to mine for cheap seafood. which we're all responsible for and of course this puts pressure on costs. and there's evidence that there's complicity still between officials and the people trafficking people into coarse language fisheries which makes it very hard to undermine sort which undermines the attempts to address this problem that was david tickler a senior researcher and lead author of a report on modern slavery at sea we're moving on to thailand where parliament has finally selected the country's next prime minister incumbent leader and ex-military chief pry you. neither his who would have backed her up the party nor the opposition had won a majority in the lower house in general elections held more than 2 months ago but you know chet was favored to stay in power backed by an upper house stacked with his supporters this outcome while not a surprise was not pre-determined cino to face

a strong challenger from the opposition the future forward party here's more. as soon as all the votes have been announced it was clear more than half of the thai parliament has voted for president john not shot of thailand's prime minister the former crew leader now becomes the head of a civilian government he was elected by the senate an institution handpicked by the military rulers his only challenger rest of 14 year old billionaire son a store in june rank it leads to and to military opposition young voters in particular have friday to his support but the military junta has filed charges of sedition against thorn in the attempt to intimidate him. i strongly believe that final victory will belong to the people. of the teachers cannot resist the wind of change forever. or.

since the military junta seized power 5 years ago it has restricted the work of the opposition and curtailed to free speech. trial and remains bitterly divided after 13 years of coups violent street protests and short lived civilian governments are used to not just new government will face off against a democratic front made up of 7 parties seeking to end military dominance in the country. so it will stay in power for a nother 4 years but not everybody is happy about it some people are tweeting under the hashtags not my p n and our ip thailand this user says you are not my prime minister money and power when everything here's someone who called to the election a foregone conclusion orchestrated by the military tweeting shame on the who into the most cheating election in thai history you got what you have planned for 5

years our south-east asia correspondent charlotte chess until has been following the whole election and sent us this dispatch from bangkok. today's anger on twitter is the culmination of months of frustration among opposition voters here in thailand many of pointing out the irony that the man who took power in a military coup in 2014 is the very same man now charged with returning thailand to civilian rule as one opposition m.p. put it it's like making the man who burnt down the temple the abbot that very same temple the opposition say that victory was stolen by a military determined to stay in power but the fact remains that private has managed to cobble together a majority in parliament his supporters say is a firm hand to the wheel a stabilizing force but questions already being asked about how long his government will last it's made up of an unprecedented 19 parties making for

a potentially fractious coalition many wanted to help himself will deal with the transition from a military to a civilian leader in his 1st term as prime minister he enjoyed absolute power he'll now have to deal with the bait and consensus building then as the opposition young and progressive voters have been galvanized by the anti military future forward party and its charismatic leader then now angry and disappointed with serious questions hanging over whether that promise to return to democracy has actually materialized. it's going to be a tough few years for thailand that's it for now be sure to check out our other stories on d.w. dot com for slash asia and on facebook or twitter we leave you with pictures from india where people have been sweltering in a heat wave that seen temperatures top 50 degree celsius in some parts of the country thanks for watching we'll see you next time good bye.

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