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SAMUT SAKHON: Sold to a boat operator for 6,000 baht two years ago, Win from Myanmar worked as a fisherman until he lost his forearm in an accident on the vessel this year.
Toiling for 19 hours a day, Win said the crew of 30 sometimes would not get any rest during peak season, with a United Nations team in Thailand this week to investigate such reports of abusive working conditions.
"Life is difficult as a fisherman in Myanmar so I thought it would make my life better if I come and work in Thailand," the father of four, 39, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
"The 'agent' did not tell me what work I was going to do or how much I would be paid. I just ended up working on the boat."
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