Maids in Malaysia
Tuesday, 03 July 2012
By Khouth Sophak Chakrya
Phnom Penh Post
Malaysian authorities arrested a man on Sunday after the family of his 18-year-old Cambodian maid reported him to local and Cambodian NGOs for allegedly raping her, the Community Legal Education Center said yesterday.
Moeun Tola, program manager at CLEC, told the Post he
had received a complaint on Friday from the girl’s parents asking the
NGO to intervene on their daughter’s behalf.
“She called her
parents after she was raped by the husband of her landlady [and
employer], and her parents called us to help her,” Tola said. “Then we
contacted our NGO partner in Malaysia [rights group Tenaganita] to intervene.”
The
18-year-old victim told the Post yesterday her Malaysian employer’s
husband, Liew Fos Ching, had attempted to rape her once before, but gave
up when her struggles attracted the attention of another family member.
She wasn’t so lucky the second time.
“I requested that the Cambodian embassy in Malaysia intervene with Malaysian authorities to bring serious punishment against the man who raped me,” she said.
But Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Koy Koung said the Cambodian embassy had not received her complaint.
“The Cambodian embassy in Malaysia told me that there was no information given,” he said.
Phone calls to the embassy were not returned yesterday.
The victim said she was 16 in September, 2010, when she travelled to Malaysia through the recruitment agency T&P.
T&P has since had its licence revoked for falsifying the names and ages of minors to send them to work abroad.
This is not the first instance of sexual abuse against maids in Malaysia.
A
victim repatriated in February, also 18, reported being raped by a man
repeatedly over a two-month period after she escaped an abusive
employer.
Ultimately, she became pregnant, and gave birth while held in prison for lacking proper documentation.
To contact the reporter on this story: Khouth Sophak Chakrya at sophakchakrya.khouth@phnompenhpost.com
1 comment:
We are selling our land to foreigners and selling our daughters and sisters to be slave abroad. It’s really screw up. We still learn nothing from this delusion. There is no penicillin, no cure, for the Cambodian society. We’re so sick. Mentally sick.
There are people getting killed by Thai’s troops every year. Men are being sold to work in the fishing industry in Thailand. Cambodian women are being raped and killed by Malaysian masters. People lands are being confiscated by the usurp-democratic government. Ironically, while we are keep putting on a political trial for the Khmer Rouge leaders who were committing crime again humanity, we have forgot the same violation of human rights are being committed every day toward Cambodian people.
There is no law that can’t be enforced, there is no bridge not to be crossed, there is no road that built not to travel, but we are as animals as to our own affluent and to disregard another human being. On the other land, the politicians think and even claim that their politically believe and view are being dominant base on God’s will.
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