he won t name the company fearing he won t be paid or worse, a backlash. activists estimate potentially there could be up to 3,000 trafficked victims working on boats in these seas. initially we found homeless thais on the island with no food. and then we start to find graves of perished sea crew. turns out there are so many. on benjimina island alone, we found more than 70. we decided to do our best to bring back those alive before they die like the others. reporter: as well as thai fishermen there are workers from cambodia, lao and myanmar. and sure, this man s story isn t new. we have heard it so many, many times before. and that is the tragedy. it still goes on.
fearing he won t be paid or worse, a backlash. activists estimate potentially there could be up to 3,000 trafficked victims working on boats in these seas. initially we found homeless thais on the island with no food. and then we start to find graves of perished sea crew. turns out there are so many. on benjimina, we found 70. we decided to do our best to bring back those alive before they die like the others. reporter: as well as thai fishermen there are workers from cambodia, lao and myanmar. and sure, this man s story isn t new. we have heard it so many, many times before. and that is the tragedy. it still goes on. translator: many of my friend died in indonesia. and their graves were marked