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With government migrant immigration and labor laws firm and strict as ever, it is only humans natural reaction to find other ways around the system and tap into that which is forbidden. After all, Adam and Eve need to eat the apple–whether you believe in such a tale or not, it would be foolish not to acknowledge the true nature of humanity’s dark side.

Every now and then, our stubbornness, fueled by greed masked by need,  gets the best of us, and nature gets a counter attack on humanity’s breach of the balance. Someone’s got to die. This article, as you might have gathered from its title, focuses on the death of 54 unlucky illegal workers from Myanmar whose life was tragically ended in suffocation, locked inside a human smuggling container disguised as a seafood truck.

The truck, originating in Ranong, where the border jumpers from Myanmar boarded from fishing boats, was on its way to Phuket, operating in what is believed to be a major human-labor smuggling operation which supplies black market manpower to various regions of Thailand in demand of cheap yet untaxed (at least not collected by the government) labor.

According to this international source, 47 more workers were lucky enough to escape the horrid suffocation death that overtook 17 and 37 of their male and female ill-fated comrades–a horrifying creeping end inside an unventilated, pitch dark, locked seafood container that was reported to be capable of holding sufficient oxygen for just 30 individuals for half an hour. It was nearly two hours and some 100 kilometers down th road when the driver of the truck finally decided to stop after being notified from within the container where one of the workers was reported to have a cell phone. As are such ‘traffic’ cases in this part of the world, the driver fled the scene in Phanga province.

Well, who would want to take the blame for such an incident? Is it all the driver’s fault? Is it only the driver’s fault? What about the greedy underground ring that umbrellas such an operation? What about the workers who weren’t satisfied with a basic existence in Myanmar where a university graduate’s starting salary is about 200 baht (about 6 USD$) a day? What about the demand that initiated such a ring to exist in the first place?

Ah, the simplicity of this case is scary, and shouldn’t be surprising. The person at fault clearly is…

…is you! It is me. It is them. It is us. It is you, me, them, and all of us. For after all, we are humans. If we didn’t directly contribute to this particular tragedy, we indirectly did by not doing anything about it in any direct or indirect way to improve the quality of humanity and showing nature whose in charge of maintaining the balance.

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