Lway June Moe, September 1, Muse
Three young workers are still missing after traveling to the Muse-Ruili border area between northern Shan State and Yunnan, China, according to their families.
Lway Shwe Nyein, a 14-year-old girl, went to Muse three months ago to work in Ruili, but her family has not been able to contact her since.
Lway Shwe Nyein had previously worked in Muse. On May 25, a broker in the town took her to Ruili, promising her family that she would find her a job.
“When she first entered China, we were in contact with her, and she told us she had a good job, although she didn’t say what it was,” a family member said. “A week later, we were no longer able to contact her or her broker.”
Lway Shwe Nyein is a resident of lower Pan Dawng village in the Nam Lin village tract, Namhsan Township, northern Shan State. She had been working with a friend at a grocery store in Muse when a broker convinced her to work in China.
Meanwhile, a 20-year-old named Lway Saing Yin, who was working at a gambling den in Muse, also went missing on August 29, according to her mother.
“Her father was also arrested on that same day,” she told Shwe Phee Myay.
“She told us she was going to work at a game center in Muse and said she enjoyed that type of work. She rode a motorbike to Muse with a boy. We were able to contact her for about a week after she arrived, but then we lost contact. I heard she went missing after a night out with her friends.”
Concerned family members are asking anyone who has seen the two missing women to contact them.
Additionally, the family of a 33-year-old man named Aik Soke, a resident of old Ohn Kyaw old village in Momeik Township, told Shwe Phee Myay that he has also been missing. He left home on February 10 with 2 million kyats to look for work and has not been in contact with his family since.
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