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On 8 Aug 01, at 21:49, Rick Rozoff wrote:
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> Thursday August 9, 11:42 AM
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> You pay for the night, she pays with her life
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> PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, Aug 9 (AFP) -
> Kosovo is never mentioned when they are offered a
> well-paid job in Italy, accompanied by legal-looking
> contracts for baby-sitters, cleaners and waitresses.
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> They accept the offer, and the often dangerous journey
> starts for hundreds of women, some of them just girls,
> from their homes in eastern European countries.
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> But it usually ends in one of 33 bars throughout the
> UN-administrated Yugoslav province of Kosovo, where
> forced prostitution has been documented by
> international organisations.
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> The women come from Moldova, Romania, Ukraine,
> Bulgaria, Albania and Russia, a report prepared by the
> International Organisation for Migration (IOM), said.
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> Between February 2000 and May this year, the IOM has
> registered and helped some 160 women, whose
> testimonies were the basis for the organisation's
> report on growing prostitution in Kosovo, the agency
> spokeswoman Tamara Osorio said.
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> The IOM has code-named its campaign "You pay for a
> night, she pays with her life."
>
> In January, the UN administration of the province
> published new regulations banning human trafficking
> and providing punishment for those aware of
> trafficking, and even those asking for sexual
> services. Jail sentences from five months to 15 years
> were laid down.
>
> But regulations are barely enforced.
>
> From the notorious Miami bar on the road near the
> northern Kosovo town of Podujevo to luxury private
> houses in the Suny hill residential area in the
> capital Pristina, the women are forced into
> prostitution, most of them never seeing the money they
> have earned.
>
> An IOM official estimated that more than 80 percent of
> the women "never see the money," which is paid to the
> pimps, with prices ranging from 100 to 500 German
> marks (45 to 225 dollars) -- a huge amount in a
> province where most of the population still relies on
> humanitarian assistance.
>
> Since June 1999, when Belgrade troops left the
> province at the end of a 78-day-long NATO bombing
> campaign on Yugoslavia, Kosovo has been administrated
> by the United Nations while more than 40,000 NATO-led
> peacekeepersprovide security.
>
> The official, who has worked with the women, said they
> were "bought from traffickers for between 1,500 to
> 5,000 German marks (675 to 2,250 dollars), depending
> on their age, appearance or if they are virgins."
>
> Girls were usually abused during their transit, and
> sometimes were "bought and sold three to six times
> until they reach Kosovo."
>
> "Sometimes when, for example, a pander from Macedonia
> tries to sell the girl to a pimp in Kosovo, the price
> will depend on whether she has a 'good reputation' --
> and whether she has a way with clients," said the
> official, who asked not to be named.
>
> The IOM report showed that 56 percent of the 160 women
> the agency has registered were aged between 18 and 24,
> while 69 percent had lived with their families in
> their home countries.
>
> And more than 86 percent of them said the reason for
> leaving home was "to find a better job," the report
> showed.
>
> "When a woman finally comes to us, she is frightened,
> with no passport and no money, and her medical
> condition is usually bad," the source said.
>
> Most of the women suffer from sexually-transmitted
> diseases, since they "are forced to have unprotected
> sex."
>
> "Some of them had up to nine clients per night," the
> official said.
>
> Their living conditions in Kosovo are "terrible,"
> their testimonies showed.
>
> Often they live in the bars where they work, sleeping
> on chairs or sharing a sofa between three of four of
> them.
>
> Food is limited and they have no freedom of movement,
> often facing beatings and rape by their pimps, the
> report said.
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