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Gallery: Missing slave fishing boats tracked to Papua New Guinea

Gallery: Missing slave fishing boats tracked to Papua New Guinea — A high-resolution satellite photograph off the coast of Papua New Guinea shows two fishing trawlers loading slave-caught fish onto Silver Sea 2, a refrigerated cargo ship belonging to the Thai-owned Silver Sea Fishery Company. Photo: DigitalGlobe via AP

Gallery: Missing slave fishing boats tracked to Papua New Guinea — Ms Ohn Myint, mother of 19-year-old Myo Ko Ko, a Burmese slave believed to be trapped on a fishing trawler in a narrow strait off Papua New Guinea, weeps in Yangon, Myanmar. Photo: AP

Gallery: Missing slave fishing boats tracked to Papua New Guinea — Former Burmese slave fishermen Mr Kaung Htet Wai, left and Mr Lin Lin, second right, at home in Yangon, Myanmar, look at satellite images showing two trawlers loading fish onto a giant refrigerated cargo ship in waters off Papua New Guinea. Photo: AP

Gallery: Missing slave fishing boats tracked to Papua New Guinea — Former Burmese slave fisherman Mr Kaung Htet Wai offers flowers at a Buddhist shrine in his house in Yangon, Myanmar. Photo: AP

Gallery: Missing slave fishing boats tracked to Papua New Guinea — Former fishing slaves who were rescued from Indonesia’s remote island village of Benjina gather at a temporary government-run shelter on the island of Tual, Indonesia. Photo: AP

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