The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is still repatriating Filipinos who have been victims of criminal trafficking in Southeast Asia.
“This includes the situation in Myanmar, where the DFA is collaborating with local law enforcement officials for the repatriation of a number of Filipinos rescued by Myanmar authorities from their workplace in Myawaddy,” the DFA said in a statement released on Monday.
According to her family, the DFA is already working on the repatriation of Kiela Samson, a Filipino tourist who was purportedly held in Myawaddy, Myanmar.
Her family is now in contact with the Philippine embassy in Yangon City.
The Samson family said in an interview with ANC that Kiela traveled to Thailand as a tourist before being invited to board a boat that carried her to Myawaddy, where she was abducted and jailed.
The DFA advised Filipinos who want to work abroad to register as overseas workers in accordance with government requirements.
“Recruiters who offer Filipinos work overseas and pose as tourists to avoid our controls are just bringing our kababayans into perilous circumstances where it may be impossible to safeguard their safety and help them come home,” it stated.
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