Myanmar has warned against the exploitation of cyclone victimized children by trafficking them for committing crime under the cover of providing them shelter, the local Weekly Eleven News reported Monday.
People who are found guilty will be sentenced to a term ranging from 10 years to life imprisonment, it said.
The journal notified the public to make complaint to the authorities against such case if found, citing the exposure of a recent case of trafficking children from the cyclone-hit areas to southeastern Kayin state.
Meanwhile, the Myanmar government said it will take care of the survived orphans left by the recent cyclone storm, banning adoption of such orphans by any individual and organization.
The government also said it will help find the orphans' survived relatives for family reunification and provide them education up to the university level.
Two orphanages are also being built in cyclone-hard-hit Ayayawaddy delta areas of Phyapon and Laputta to each house 300 orphans, it added.
According to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), of the 2.4 million people affected by the cyclone storm Nargis, 960,000 or 40 percent were estimated to be children.
Myanmar passed domestically the Law on Prevention of Trafficking in Persons in September 2005 and formed the Central Committee for Anti-Trafficking in Persons in March 2006.
Deadly tropical cyclone Nargis hit five divisions and states --Ayeyawaddy, Yangon, Bago, Mon and Kayin on last May 2 and 3, killing 77,738 people and leaving 55,917 missing and 19,359 injured according to official-released death toll.
Source: Xinhua
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