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On the recordMarch 6, 2012
The first case that was brought against Vietnam and individuals in the Government of Vietnam, pursuant to my law, the Trafficking Victims Protection of 2000, was a sweatshop in American Samoa where hundreds of people were abused, Vietnamese individuals, and they have never, never provided the compensation prescribed by the judge to those individuals that they had so cruelly abused.
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Gerry Connolly
Democratic · Virginia

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Connolly discusses a trafficking case involving Vietnam and lack of accountability.

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