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To: Selkie

The US State Department estimates about 600,000 to 800,000 people – mostly children and women – are trafficked across national borders annually.

Girls from the villages of Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia and the Philippines are lured into cities or neighbouring countries with promises of lucrative jobs as waitresses and domestic helpers, only to end up in massage parlours and karaoke bars.

Others are flown as far as Australia, Japan, South Africa and the United States to be kept as slaves in brothels – beaten, drugged, starved or raped in the first days of their reclusion to intimidate and prepare them for clients, the experts say.

Sex tourism is a profitable business. Data provided by the International Labour Organisation showed that 2 to 14 percent of the gross domestic product of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand comes from sex tourism, experts said
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Indonesia, trafficking in drugs is a sin punishable by death, while trafficking in young kids is Aokay. Hypocrites.


8 posted on 05/06/2005 1:07:32 PM PDT by Selkie ("There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent)
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To: Selkie

If I were president I'd drop a MOAB right on their hall of justice.


9 posted on 05/06/2005 2:00:33 PM PDT by mallardx
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