Human traffickers prey on vulnerable in Thailand
KOH KRED — Sixteen-year-old Kaew slumped into unconsciousness in a van somewhere in southern Thailand, believing she was on her way to work in a textile factory near the border. She woke up in Malaysia to discover that she had been sold into the sex trade. Hers is just one of a multitude of cases of modern-day slavery in Thailand, most of which involve a mix of poverty, violence and betrayal. Apparently drugged and later locked in a room in Kuala Lumpur, Kaew met three other Thai women who asked if she had been lured to work like them. “I had no idea what they were talking about, but then they told me what kind of job they did and what kind of job I had to do. I was very scared,” said Kaew, whose name AFP has changed to protect her identity. She managed to escape before her first job, using money she had been given to buy food to take a taxi to the Thai embassy.... MORE Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100731com3.htm |
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