give us some details. >> yes, there has been breaking news from eastern indonesia. government has been investigating alleged abuses and has announced they'll bring to safety a group of fisherman from myanmar, and said they have found its of slavery, abuse, so they'll bring a group, as many as they can carry back to safety and they will hand them over to a delegation of myanmar, arriving in a few days. the bones are horrifying. we have identified a couple of fishermen. they say they never wanted to work here. they were enticed by agents to work op boat hardly any pay and abuse, stories about murder. they are horrific. they've been brought here to talk to anyone about it. from thailand and today, from indonesia. they have the light on the remote part of indonesia. >> i know this is early in the investigation, but has there been response at all from the corporations two have been buying the seafood from the boats using the sailors as slaves? >> as far as i know. negotiations have been responded and they are very worried. they don't want to be connected to any form of s

>>> officials from thailand, indonesia and myanmar have been travel to go remote islands in eastern indonesiaate investigations of abuse of fishermen. a year-long investigation by the associated press has revealed how thousands of for earnser locked up some of them in iron cages. we go to one of the islands named in the report. step, we were talking about this about an hour ago and you were telling me already some action has been taken what's been going on? >> reporter: well, there is great excitement here in the very far east of indonesia. the investigation team from the indonesian government has just announced to this group of people from myanmar the people from myanmar right here and also others from cambodia and some thailand lay owes, can go home. they are going bring them on safety from ghost pwo*ets from the government because they are worried that they are not safe higher anymore. they have been speaking to journalists and also the government team. horrific stories of abuse and also about their working conditions. some of them here have been working for many years on these boats, many

thein the eastern part of indonesia. they are all victims of human trafficking. they were sold by an agent in thailand to this company here in the east of indonesia to work on fishing vessels. some for many, many years. they were not allowing to home. they were all abused. they were all suffering from lack of food, from lack of sleep, and they had to work on very difficult conditions. the government has decided to take them away from the place where they were held for such a long time because they worry about their safety after they had been speaking out to the press and the government. now they will be brought here to this port, and they'll be questioned once again. it all has to be documented to find evidence for all these very very harsh allegations. then all these people will be handed over to their responsible governments in myanmar cambodia and thailand. it will be a long and difficult process. this is only one small group of a very big group who is still most of them, out there at sea somewhere and nobody knows yet where they are. >> myanmar's opposition l

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