Photo Credit: A K Rockefeler By NouseUK February 11, 2014 Marie Poupinel discusses recent developments in Myanmar and there impact on the Rohingya people In South-East Asia, an area notoriously known for its Golden Triangle of opium-producing countries, trafficking through the porous frontiers of Myanmar, Thailand and Bangladesh isn’t solely confined to batteries of drugs, but extends to flesh. The market of human trafficking is a deep-rooted, complex and resilient commerce, the nexus of its illicit activities tying up the triad in a history of abuse, spilling over to the ring of peripheral neighbours such as India, Malaysia and Nepal. Forced labor and sex exploitation in the global pattern of trafficking of an estimated 22 million peoples (UN Drugs and Crime Report 2012) constitutes South-East Asia’s most daunting human rights challenge. The bane of such prevalent human rights violations was recently put into relief when Th...