New Straits Times (Malaysia)
KUALA LUMPUR: Mealea (not her real name) was only 17 when her older sister brought her here from their village in Cambodia. Her sister had promised to find her a job here.
However, her dreams of a well-paying job soon turned into a nightmare.
On her second day here, her sister and her Malaysian brother-in-law took Mealea and two other men to a condominium. One of the men went into a room and her sister told Mealea to follow him.
When he asked her to take off her clothes, Mealea began to cry. The man then contacted her sister and passed the phone to her.
"I pleaded with my sister to take me away. But she said she had spent so much to bring me here. She told me to just shut my eyes and endure it. She told me to do it for our mother," Mealea said.
For the next eight weeks, Mealea had to entertain up to 12 men a week. Unable to bear the humiliation any more, she and two other girls escaped from the condominium where they were held captive. They then sought the help of Tenaganita.
Mealea is one of hundreds of women and children who have been trafficked and exploited.
According to Tenaganita director Irene Fernandez, 65 per cent of trafficked women were forced into bonded labour while the rest into prostitution.
Girls as young as 14 years old are victims.
Last year, Tenaganita set up a shelter for trafficked women and children. So far, 66 women had been given shelter. Currently, there are 14 girls at the shelter while the rest have been repatriated.
Most of the women were from Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, India and Sri Lanka.
However, her dreams of a well-paying job soon turned into a nightmare.
On her second day here, her sister and her Malaysian brother-in-law took Mealea and two other men to a condominium. One of the men went into a room and her sister told Mealea to follow him.
When he asked her to take off her clothes, Mealea began to cry. The man then contacted her sister and passed the phone to her.
"I pleaded with my sister to take me away. But she said she had spent so much to bring me here. She told me to just shut my eyes and endure it. She told me to do it for our mother," Mealea said.
For the next eight weeks, Mealea had to entertain up to 12 men a week. Unable to bear the humiliation any more, she and two other girls escaped from the condominium where they were held captive. They then sought the help of Tenaganita.
Mealea is one of hundreds of women and children who have been trafficked and exploited.
According to Tenaganita director Irene Fernandez, 65 per cent of trafficked women were forced into bonded labour while the rest into prostitution.
Girls as young as 14 years old are victims.
Last year, Tenaganita set up a shelter for trafficked women and children. So far, 66 women had been given shelter. Currently, there are 14 girls at the shelter while the rest have been repatriated.
Most of the women were from Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, India and Sri Lanka.
7 comments:
This is an animal sister...to justify juch inhuman act for mother....this is really like animal realm...
This all caused by Hun Sen's economic....
Don't blame everything on my son.
I told you Hun Sen is a motherfucker.
Bad PM, you should not screw 5:41's
mother. Don't you know the risk of
getting HIV/AIDS? Go back to bed
because you are ill!
BUT HE SCREW 6:21PM'S MOTHER WITH RUBER FROM VIETNAME.
LOL.
Dear KI-Media friends et al,
Let's do it by asking each and everyone of us, friends and families and relatives to write/email to our scholars, doctors, lawyers, intellectuals and the like to, in turn, write/email to SAM RAINGSY, KEM SOKHA, RANARITH, THOMICO and other political figures to please set their personal interest asides and join in with one another to form one single democratic party to vote HUN SEN and his regime out of power in the general election of 2008.
Let's do it on a grand scale as this is may be our last chance to save our homeland and little of what we have left during this more than a three decade long of HUN SEN pro-viet regime control of CAMBODIA. Let's see that it happens and disseminated it on every Khmer site on the internet. Below is my email to Dr. Lao Mong Hay. Please help by writing yours right now. Thank you so very much for helping save Cambodia and ourselves.
Very sincerely yours,
Crazy Glue
Dear Dr. LAO Mong Hay,
I am writing to implore your understanding to write/email to SAM RAINGSY, KEM SOKHA, RANARITH, THOMICO and other KHMER political figures alike to please set their personal interest asides to join in and form ONE SIGNLE DEMOCRATIC party to vote HUN SEN and his regime out of CAMBODIA in the general elction of 2008 since this may be the only chance Camdodia has for her existence.
Very respectfully yours,
Crazy Glue
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