Tak, Thailand
Thailand wan known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been colonized by a European power. A revolution in 1932 led to the establishment of a constitutional monarchy. After the Japanese invaded Thailand in 1941, the government split into a pro-Japan faction and a pro-Ally faction backed by the King. Following the war, Thailand became a US treaty ally in 1954 after sending troops to Korea and later fighting alongside the US in Vietnam.
Thailand is a destination country for men, women, and children subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking, victims from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, China, Vietnam, Uzbekistan, and India, migrate to Thailand in search of jobs but are defrauded into labor in commercial fishing, fishing related industries, factories, domestic work, street begging, or the sex trade. Some Thai, Burmese, Cambodian, and Indonesian men forced to work on fishing boats are kept at sea for years.
