The Times Of India, 13 Oct 2008
KUALA LUMPUR: Authorities in Malaysia, Singapore and India have launched a probe into the alleged trafficking of young tribal women from Northeast India to the Southeast Asian flesh trade market as "Spices of India" by recruitment agents on the pretext of getting them jobs as housemaids there.
The probe comes in the wake of an incident in which five tribal girls from Manipur and Assam, who were taken by an agent to Singapore on the pretext of getting them jobs there, were sent to Malaysia and pushed into flesh trade.
One of the girls managed to escape and alerted a pastor who got help from an NGO.
All the five were housed in the David Pasteur Christian Home for destitutes here, which linked up with social activist Kinderson Panmei.
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