Nowadays, many Burmese people are forced to choose to work as domestic servants overseas for their livelihood, but although some Burmese people have expectations for the life of overseas migrant workers, they do not necessarily encounter good things.
According to the British "Daily Mail", a Singaporean woman, Mujayan, was recently sentenced to 30 years in prison for beating and abusing her Burmese maid Jiang Yatang for 14 months and causing his death. It is understood that during the work of the 24-year-old Jiang Yatang in Mugayan's home, he was personally attacked by Mugayan almost every day. She was not only trampled, strangled, and pinched, but also smashed with a broom and ironed. In addition, Jiang Yatang had almost no food, could only sleep 5 hours a night, and was forced to bathe and go to the toilet with the door open. So during the work, the abused Jiang Yatang lost weight sharply.
(Left Mugayan Right Jiang Yatang)
In July 2016, Jiang Yatang was beaten and abused by Mugayan as usual, only this time, instead of getting back on her feet as usual, she stopped breathing a few hours later. It is understood that at the time of his death, Jiang Yatang weighed only 24 kilograms, which was about the same as the average weight of a 7-year-old girl.
Eventually, Mugayan, who committed such a felony, was arrested in 2016. And now, the judge has formally sentenced her to 30 years in prison from the date of her arrest. In his judgment, the judge said that "the defendant's conduct was appalling and extremely cruel" and that the verdict must reflect society's hatred and indignation at the crime. However, it is worth mentioning that, given Mugayan's obsessive-compulsive disorder and the depression she suffered from during the birth of the child, the prosecution requested that the charges be mitigated to manslaughter rather than murder, and Mugayan escaped death.
It is understood that Mugayan is now 40 years old, about 65 years old when she was released from prison, although she did not lose her life, but staying in prison for 30 years is also a big punishment. However, it is worth mentioning that after this incident, the topic of abuse of overseas domestic workers has returned to the public's vision, and people can't help but think of the previous incidents of filipino maid abuse.
According to the British "Mirror" report, before that, a Filipino maid died tragically in Kuwait. At that time, the report mentioned that the victim's body was bruised and purple when he was sent to the hospital, and some people said that the Filipino maid was beaten to death with a stick. At that time, this matter attracted great attention in the Philippines. Philippine Foreign Minister Teddy Rosen Jr. also said on Twitter that if she was really beaten to death, the Philippine side would never leave the matter to recruitment agencies that only considered their own interests and did not consider the safety of employees.
(Murdered Filipino Maid)
Also in Kuwait, the body of a Filipino maid was stuffed into a refrigerator after she was killed. After this incident, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was so angry that he directly ordered a ban on the export of foreign workers to Kuwait. At the same time, the Philippine government also announced free air tickets to allow more than 10,000 Filipino foreign workers in Kuwait to return home.
(Duterte shows photos of the victims)
Although some Asian countries still send a lot of domestic workers to countries around the world, not everyone will be well treated when working overseas. It is understood that there are about 250,000 domestic workers in Singapore, generally from poorer Asian countries, and abuse occurs from time to time. Therefore, it is not uncommon for domestic workers to be abused, but those things have not received attention from the outside world, and most of those that have attracted attention are serious cases.
(Edit: LY)