Diary of an Escaped Sex Slave

[Lobotomy]

warning - contains very disturbing descriptions of sexual violence

Sreypov Chan, a young Cambodian woman with a feisty laugh and a love of Kelly Clarkson songs, has a recurring dream: She's being chased by gangsters. They catch her and throw her into a filthy, cockroach-infested room. She knows what will happen next: She will be tortured—whipped with metal cables, locked in a cage, shocked with a loose electrical wire—and then gang raped.

Sreypov has lived this dream.

When she was 7 years old—an age when most girls are going to slumber parties—she was sold to a brothel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital city, to work as a sex slave. The woman who made the sale: her mother.

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[Red Future]

Absolutley foul.This is the reality of the "new Cambodia".

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Absolutley foul.This is the reality of the "new Cambodia".

Not that the old Cambodia was all too great either.

[GoddessCleoLover]

Seems to be the reality of people from wealthy countries who come to Cambodia to sexually exploit its children. Perhaps incarceration in a Cambodian prison might be an appropriate punishment? That would be a real punishment to a Westerner or a Japanese not used to such privations.

[Red Future]

Not that the old Cambodia was all too great either.

Indeed no.However there is no doubting that the New Cambodia created out of the peace process in the 1990s is little more than a ruined pawn of capitalism.Sweatshops and slavery abound.

On an interesting note I read somehwere about ex Khmer-Rouge guerillas in control of segments of the "criminal economy".It wouldn't surprise me if many ex fighters of the 1980s are now in charge of sex-trafficking cartels.

[GoddessCleoLover]

Anyone involved in sex-trafficking cartels is not a ""fighter" but an arch-criminal who deserves exemplary punishment for his crimes against humanity.

[Red Future]

Anyone involved in sex-trafficking cartels is not a ""fighter" but an arch-criminal who deserves exemplary punishment for his crimes against humanity.

I think the Khmer-Rouge were nothing more than arch-criminals anway by the 1990s.No popular support.No US aid anymore and no "Vietnamese Communists" in Phnom Penh to rail against.Pretty much a natural progression for the Khmer Rouge considering their history.

Demobilised forces that were part of KPNLAF likley did the same.

[Prometeo liberado]

Let's not fool ourselves into thinking that it's "animistic cambodians" or some type of "new" Cambodia. Poverty, Poverty, Poverty often creates this type of criminal deviant aphrodisiac. You'll find it anywhere there is a class of exploited people. All to often articles like this create an assumption that the "third world" is very far from my quaint little hamlet,(i.e. It can't or doesn't happen here). I quote Billy Bragg: The third world is just around the corner.