Showing posts with label Fate of Cambodian women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fate of Cambodian women. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Selling Cambodian Daughters ... Do you want to buy a wife?

Traffic in Phnom Penh (Photo: P. Virak)

Observation by P. Virak
From Cambodia

Thousands of factory workers, mostly young girls from all over the country, are dying to be picked to become foreigner's 'slave'. They know nothing about life in Korea, Taiwan, Thailand nor anywhere else but Cambodia. If you see where these workers live and work, you would understand why they don't mind to become foreigner's servant. Any place is better than Cambodia for them.

For many of those young ones who live in the countryside, their dream is to become a factory workers. Thousands of students who graduate from HS and Universities cannot find any decent job. Many have found some works as waiter or waitress at Chinese restaurants and Karaoke places... Some girls settle as a second or third wife of the rich and powerful ones.

They can become as an easy target for heartless traffickers... They will do anything for a few dollars or more.