Russian dream disillusions In the years of 2006 - 2007, in many poor communes in Bac Giang province people in masses went to  Many unfinished houses in Thanh Cong village, Tien Phong commune of Yen Dung district, Bac Giang province. Upon arriving in Tien Phong commune in Yen Dung district, Bac Giang, which has the village previously known as the "Russian village," the first things that came to our eyes were unfinished houses. The more we moved deeply into the village, the more unfinished houses we saw. They were located close together along the village road. More than half of these unfinished houses belonged the families of workers in Thanh Cong and Quyet Tien are the two villages in Tien Phong commune that have the greatest numbers of people going to Live as slaves  Mr. Than Van Hau, 25, just came back home on August 11. Since February 2013, the family of Mr. Than Van Tu, 29 years old, in Mrs. Than Thi Nga, 66 years old, Tu’s mother, just cried when talked about him: "Before he went to Russia, they promised to pay him VND17 million ($800) per month but when he arrived in Russia, they did not pay him as what they promised. He had to work 12 hours a day. He just sent home $500. Now we lost contact with him." Recently, tens of people returned from After the first month arriving in He worked as a building worker but he was not paid in the first month. The 2nd month he was paid $800. Three months later he worked extremely hard but he was not paid. He had to work up to 14 hours a day. Hau also did not know exactly where he was in Each year he worked during five summer months. In the winter, when the temperature fell to - 26 degrees Celsius, he could only huddled in the room and tried to save every coin. Hau said: "I suffered a lot and I was familiar with it. I was just scared of having no food and no money to send home to my parents to pay debts." Working without pay for a long time, Hau unilaterally breached the contract to seek jobs himself illegally. He worked hard and saved every penny to send home a total of VND200 million ($10,000) in six years. On 17/07/2013, Hau was arrested by the police and immigration agency and deported. After less than one year in He saw many Vietnamese workers in other places having to drink water from the fields, lived in tents and slept on the ground. No passport, no work permit, he was expelled. Just returning home, he went to Lang Son province to work as a builder to earn money in order to pay the big debt of VND100 million for his contract to Going to  The grandmother, parents and two children of Mr. Than Van Tu, in According to our surveys, the procedures for "labor export" to According to the promise of brokers, the jobs are simple, working for eight hours a day to earn pay of around $1,000 per month. The workers only need to seek money, other things will be fulfilled by the brokers. Sometimes, brokers organized meetings to inform local people of recruitment programs without limit of laborers to send to According to denunciations from the victims' families, there are two big brokers in Yen Dung District, who sent hundreds of people to If workers break the labor contracts, the brokers will ask their families in "What is most distressing is relatives and villagers cheated each other. I do not know where my son is now but they have sent an acknowledgement of debt to me," said Than Thi Nga, Tu’s mother. The authorities do not know anything Mr. Than Van Thinh, chairman of Tien Phong commune, said: "In the years 2006 - 2007, local people in masses went to Since 2008, the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs of Bac Giang Province joined other forces to detect and handle fours cases of illegally taking workers to Mr. Tran Van Ha, an official of the department, said these cases were detected through people’s denouncement. Source: TN |
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