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Vietnam arrests eight in connection with UK truck deaths

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these demons deserve the most severe punishment

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The arrests are purely a face saving expedient. Lax controls and oversight of people flows are a massive foreign exchange earner that only becomes a problem when it becomes a problem. Far too many vested interests at either end profit enormously from these human flows and Vietnam’s response and the all round crocodile tears should be seen as just that, tinkering on the margins that will achieve very little. The only answer is repatriation of those who are caught, severe penalties for local facilitators of this evil trade, and enforcement mechanisms with teeth.

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Why does it takes a large amount of deaths in one smuggling run before anything happens in the countries these poor victims came from.

They sought a better life and found only a slow horrible death.

where poor job prospects, encouragement by authorities, smuggling gangs and environmental disaster all contribute to the wave of migrants.

On Friday, police in Ha Tinh said they had arrested two people and summoned others for questioning on suspicion of involvement in the incident.

Any of those arrested or going to be questioned have any links to the authorities that encouraged ones to leave ?

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