Chief of the Myanmar Police Force Police Lt-Gen Win Zaw Moe, who is also chairman of the Working Committee on Implementation of Myanmar’s Five-Year Plan for Combatting Human Trafficking, presided over the first coordination meeting of the committee in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday.
Speaking at the meeting, Police Lt-Gen Win Zaw Moe said that based on Myanmar’s Fourth Five-Year National Plan to Combat Human Trafficking (2022-2026), the 2026 action plan has been formulated covering four key sectors- policy and cooperation, prevention, prosecution, and protection. The plan was developed in accordance with recommendations and supplementary inputs from relevant ministries, departments, security forces, and non-governmental organizations. It also incorporates ongoing activities, processes related to human trafficking cases, newly proposed initiatives, and measures aimed at preventing and suppressing the changing patterns of human trafficking.
With the rapid advancement of technology around the world, transnational online fraud has become increasingly widespread. These scams generally involve various methods such as financial fraud, online gambling scams, investment fraud, employment scams, lottery scams, and romance scams. Such schemes target victims through different approaches, and employment-related scams in particular have increasingly led to forced labour and human trafficking.
He also talked about the educational programmes for public awareness regarding the prevention of human trafficking.
He added that Myanmar citizens who have encountered various difficulties while working abroad are being assisted through coordination with Myanmar embassies and ministries concerned in the respective countries to bring them back to Myanmar and reunite them with their families.
During 2025, individuals from various countries who arrived in Myanmar and later encountered difficulties sought assistance through diplomatic channels, the National Central Bureau (NCB), and police-to-police cooperation mechanisms, and they were transferred to their respective countries.
Currently, due to labour demands in domestic factories and workshops in neighbouring countries and in some ASEAN countries, human smugglers have increasingly organized group-based criminal activities to illegally transport people from Myanmar seeking employment abroad. Therefore, the anti-human smuggling law (draft) is being drafted as quickly as possible in accordance with the recommendations of the ministries concerned to eliminate the human smuggling gangs effectively.
He called for strong cooperation in rehabilitation processes and humanitarian assistance for the victims of human trafficking.
Participants coordinated the discussion, and Police Lt-Gen Win Zaw Moe concluded the meeting.
MNA/KTZH
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