Tuesday, 12 June 2012
By Mom Kunthear
Phnom Penh Post
Two Cambodian women escaped Thailand on Friday a week after being
trafficked across the border and sold into sex slavery in a Thai karaoke
parlour, according to the rights group Adhoc and Anti-Human Trafficking
and Juvenile Protection officials.
Tan Kimrany, an officer for
Adhoc’s Women’s Rights program, said yesterday that the two filed
complaints last Friday after allegedly being tricked by a married pair
of brokers named Nuon and Nang, who had promised them jobs in Phnom
Penh.
“They worked from 4pm until 3am, but they did not get a single cent from the karaoke parlour owner,” she said.
“Their
boss threatened to beat them until they died if they attempted to
escape, and if they wanted to go back home they had to work for one to
two years to pay the debt,” she added.
One victim told the Post that she had known the brokers for a long time, and had always had a good relationship with them.
“We
had good communication with each other for three years already, and I
travelled from my house in Takeo province to visit them in Phnom Penh
often, but I do not know why they did that to me,” she said. “They sold
me to the karaoke parlour.”
According to the victim, the two fled
through the forest for five hours before making it to the Cham Yeam
border station, where they recounted their ordeal to authorities and
filed formal complaints.
By the time she reached the border, the victim said, she was weak from hunger and severely dehydrated.
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Polivuth, provincial deputy police chief in charge of Anti-Human
Trafficking and Juvenile Protection, said yesterday that the brokers are
the same ones accused in a case last month.
“I sent the document to the court already and I am awaiting the arrest warrant from the court,” she said.
According
to a complaint letter obtained by the Post, one victim is suing the
brokers for 20,000 baht (US$630), in addition to asking that they be
punished according to the law.
To contact the reporter on this story: Mom Kunthear at kunthear.mom@phnompenhpost.com
4 comments:
don't help her, let it be ..
coz, she never listened to the government, was adviced not to go.
don't help,, don't help, i hated
It's better to go away rather than live under your gvt and starve to death
12 June 2012 11:47 PM
Wrong! Please tell me who is listening to this Government? When said, don’t cut trees and do not shoot people, but when it’s happened, this Government tried to hide the truth and protected them from putting into prison.
This we call an ADVICE, right!
It is easy to say what you have said above(poster) you don't know how desperate these khmer people to survive in the corrupted society like Cpp's govt killing machine... They gals believe the agency that lied to them,an agency false prosecute this criminal-agency,sue them for more money.
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