Europe has long been a promised land for Bangladeshi fortune seekers. With illusion further fuelled by human traffickers, many take risky journeys through the Mediterranean, knowing well it may turn fatal in the hazardous sea. But when they are held hostage by human traffickers or other criminal gangs in Libya, a transit point en route to Europe, they realise
The number Bangladeshis going for overseas employment has been doubled in the past four years; although it has not positively reflected in remittances to the country, Prime Minister Shaikh Hasina has said.
Europe has long been a promised land for Bangladeshi fortune seekers. With illusion further fuelled by human traffickers, many take risky journeys through the Mediterranean, knowing well it may turn fatal in the hazardous sea. But when they are held hostage by human traffickers or other criminal gangs in Libya, a transit point en route to Europe, they realise
The number Bangladeshis going for overseas employment has been doubled in the past four years; although it has not positively reflected in remittances to the country, Prime Minister Shaikh Hasina has said.