Some MP’s Involved Child Trafficking
some kids are used to smuggle drugs
News Yemen The National Organization for Defending Rights and Freedoms, called HOOD, said that Yemeni laws that illegalize child trafficking and identify punishment against violators are not enacted and that some officials and MPs intervene not to be enacted.
The executive director of HOOD, Khalid al-Ansi, accused the government of encouraging people to join corruption in the country when it puts laws out of action and ignores violations.
“If the government wants to apply laws so it can do as it sends soldiers to people to pay taxes,” said al-Ansi.
Al-Ansi said as discussing a graduation research offered by student Imarat Sabra in a ceremony on the graduating of a new batch from the Media College, Public Relations Section, in Sana’a University that “some officials and members in the Parliament are involved in a mafia practicing child trafficking.” He did not give names.
But, the journalist Ahmad al-Qershi criticized media means that he said “circulate the so-called child trafficking”. He preferred to call it “illegal migration” or “escaping hunger to find decent life in somewhere else”.
Yemen does not suffer such horrible child trafficking like other countries, said al-Qershi. He said some media means do offer wrong numbers and refer information to unknown sources about the so-called child trafficking phenomenon.
The lawyer al-Ansi responded to al-Qershi as saying that taking a child by force, parents agree or not, is a crime and taking the child out of borders in illegal way is clearly human trafficking.
The number of children is not important, but the most important is that we face a phenomenon needs solutions, said al-Ansi.
The researcher Ali al-Buraihi also criticized al-Qershi and said the phenomenon exists and the solutions should be practical, not only sound bites.
I have conducted a field survey along with some colleagues to get facts about children trafficking and we have found that some parents had contracts with smugglers to take their children away to work outside the country, said al-Buraihi. He said that some children were used in drugs smuggling and other risky adventures.
