HOW IT BEGINS
In 2016, investigative journalists with R.AGE started receiving reports that young Bangladeshi men and women were being cheated and trafficked to Malaysia - through private colleges.
To uncover the truth about these syndicates, the journalists spent over a year undercover, infiltrating the colleges, speaking to the trafficking agents, and following their trail all the way to the “epicentre of the student trafficking trade” - Dhaka, Bangladesh.
They uncovered a booming trade worth millions of dollars, leaving behind a trail of devastated families and ruined lives.
TRAFFICKING STORIES
These students are recruited through lies, charged exorbitant fees and extorted for more money along the way, often ending up in situations identical to victims of human trafficking.
MEETING A TRAFFICKER
From Kuala Lumpur to Dhaka, R.AGE encountered these college agents who promote to students a chance to work and study. But sometimes, their promises seem too good to be true.
