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Subject: Trafficking of Burmese Women and Girls into Brothels in Thailand

Most of you may or may not know of this.  Asia Watch has published 

                 A Modern Form of Slavery
  Trafficking of Burmese Women and Girls into Brothels in Thailand

                      Asia Watch
			and
              The Women's Rights Project

Here is the Introduction.

"Lin Lin" was thirteen years old when she was recruited by an agent for
work in Thailand. Her father took $480 from the agent with the understanding
that his daughter would pay the loan back out of her earnings. The agent took
"Lin Lin" to Bangkok, and three days later she was taken to the Ran Dee Prom 
brothel. "Lin Lin" did not know what was going on until a man came into her
room and started touching her breasts and body and then forced her to have sex.

For the next two years, "Lin Lin" worked in various parts of Thailand in four
different brothels, all but one owned by the same family. the owners told her
she would have to keep prostituting until she paid off her father's debt. her
clients, who often included police, paid the owner $4 each time. If she 
refused a client's demands, she was slapped and threatened by the owner. She
woked everyday except fo the two days off each month she was allowed for her
menstrual period. Once she had to borrow money to pay for medicine to treat
a painful vaginal infection. The amount was added to her debt. ...

    [...]

"Lin Lin" is just one of the thousands of Burmese women and girls who have
been trafficked and sold into what amounts to female sexual slavery in
Thailand.

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I don't get anything out of this...

Coban