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Cheers, Bun H. > > Can you tell us how many percent of Cambodians act this way? > Is it the responsibility of their government? > What happened to the Cambodian greatness? > Oh! What do you think about this story? > Isn't an ugly act committed by some Cambodians? > If they know it's bad, why are they doing it? > Isn't this one of the Cambodian ugly rotten society? > If I own this country, I would let it out to the world like you are > doing it here? > > > On Mar 23, 4:31 pm, "Sam Rainsy Party of North America" > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Human Trafficking on the Rise in Cambodia >> >> German UNICEF Chairwoman Heide Simonis, right, poses with Somaly Mam from >> Cambodia, following a news conference on child prostitution in Berlin >> (File) >> Child of a Cambodian prostitute stands in the doorway of a Phnom Penh >> slum >> shack as a group of sex workers play cards to pass the time (File) >> >> By Rory Byrne >> Voice of America >> Phnom Penh >> 23 March 2009 >> >> Every year in Cambodia, hundreds of girls are trafficked and sold into >> brothels where they are forced to work as sex slaves. Although precise >> figures are unavailable, analysts say that the rate of trafficking is >> soaring. Many of the victims endure years of torture and abuse in >> brothels, >> resulting in lasting physical and psychological damage. >> >> Despite recent efforts by the Cambodian authorities to curb the country's >> huge illicit sex industry, analysts say it is continuing to thrive. >> Although >> many brothels have closed their front doors, their back doors remains >> wide >> open. Other brothels are using hairdressers or beauty shops to front >> their >> illicit trade. >> >> Although some sex workers do the job to escape poverty, many of those >> working in brothels are victims of human trafficking who are held against >> their will and forced to work as sex slaves. >> >> Founded by a former sex slave, The Somaly Mam Foundation was set up in >> 1996 >> to rescue and rehabilitate victims of human trafficking. >> >> Since then, the group has rescued more than 5,000 girls from brothels >> throughout Cambodia and is now caring for more than 250 former sex >> workers, >> more than half of whom were under 18 years of age. >> >> Somaly Mam says that the trafficking problem is getting worse every year. >> She blames organized crime and corrupt officials for running the >> industry. >> >> She says that criminal networks have set up a structured >> people-trafficking >> system. She says agents go from village to village, looking for girls >> whom >> they lure away with promises of marriage or a good job. She says that, >> because many of the victims are poorly educated, they fall for the trick >> and >> when they come to the city they get locked in a brothel. >> >> Trafficking victims are enslaved, tortured >> >> Trafficking victims in Cambodia typically endure years of torture and >> abuse. >> >> Vann Sina was lured from her village with an invitation to a Christmas >> party >> when she was just 13 years old. When she arrived in Phnom Penh she was >> locked in an underground cellar. >> >> She says she was beaten a lot and had to serve many clients. She says >> that >> if she refused she was tortured with electric shocks or forced to eat hot >> chilies. She says that if she did not receive 15 or more clients every >> day >> she was starved and beaten. >> >> Life in a brothel is a living hell, says Somaly Mam, as she recalls her >> years of abuse: >> >> She says that, if you have never lived in a brothel, you cannot >> understand >> how bad it is. She says she had to receive more than ten clients a day >> and >> that most of them were drunk, smelled bad and were very violent. She says >> that the terror she endured was so bad it is indescribable. >> >> Years spent locked in a brothel takes a huge mental and physical toll on >> the >> victims. >> >> As well as the scourge of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, >> many >> are psychologically damaged by their experiences >> >> Most of the girls who arrive at the Somaly Mam Foundation require years >> of >> therapy, says chief doctor Ma Ly. >> >> She says that most of the girls who come to the center have severe mental >> problems. She says they get angry easily, they shout a lot and many of >> them >> just want to die. She says she tries to encourage them to love themselves >> again, but that can take years of therapy. >> >> The Somaly Mam Center creates a loving environment where former victims >> can >> make new friends and attempt to recapture their lost childhoods. >> >> Somaly Mam says the center tries to teach them to love themselves again, >> but >> that they must never forget what happened to them. >> >> She says, just because you have lived in a terrible situation, it does >> not >> mean that you are a bad person. She says that she has survived by >> reshaping >> her past and turning it into something positive. >> >> Mental treatment may take years >> >> As well as treating victim's mental and physical injuries, the Somaly Mam >> Foundation provides further education and job training to help the girls >> find employment after they leave the center. >> >> But the main aim is to teach the girls that their lives have meaning and >> that they can have a bright future. >> >> A woman says that, when she was in the brothel, she never thought she >> could >> escape from that hell. She says she thought her pain was for a lifetime >> but >> that today she feels much better. >> >> Analysts say there are more victims of human trafficking today than at >> the >> height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. >> >> Without a greater effort to stamp it out, thousands other girls in >> Cambodia >> and around the world will fall victim to this modern-yet-ancient form of >> slavery. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org" group. This is an unmoderated forum. Please refrain from using foul language. Thank you for your understanding. Peace among us and in Cambodia. 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