The trade human trafficking in Dubai
Thursday - January 26, 2017 9:43 am ,
Category : WTN SPECIAL
A few days back I saw a news report broadcasted in a television channel. It said that about 10,000 girls are likely to be taken to Middle East from India as part of sex trafficking. The report showed a couple of girls narrating their harrowing experiences in Dubai.
I was angry and felt depressed for the girls and wished to be more emotionally strong. It was heart breaking to realise the compelling agony some girls of this country face. I felt the pain for lives being ruined by sex trafficking in this country where women have been respected from centuries.
And I was sad that this disturbing crime has transpired in all parts of the country. Thousands of young women fall victim to this every year. It’s a crude reminder of degrading morale values in us, the humans. It also shows that this beautiful world is a dangerous, very treacherous, tragic place for a number of women.
A couple of times media reports have made startling revelations about women and girls being smuggled to Middle East countries like Dubai, Oman, Malaysia, USA, South Korea etc,.
They are forced to work in brothels as prostitutes, bar girls and a number of times as sexual slaves of the paranoid rich. A “no” forces them to face the most horrible time of their life including sexual abuse and severe beating. Many of them are locked up under dingy conditions until they break agreeing to the demands.
The socio-economic conditions of this country are held responsible for this problem. The worst affected are the border regions of the country. It is said that poverty is perhaps the biggest reason for a mother, father, brother and other family members to sell the girls.
In a number of cases the parents sell or mortgage the girl child or a young girl against a loan taken. They are not able to pay back the debt and the girl is never rescued back to home.
But I feel, more than poverty it is the greed for money that pushes girls into this dangerous circle of sexual exploitation and prostitution. Parents looking aside the values sell their girls for money. Fathers, husbands and brothers force the girls and women in their family towards prostitution and many a times as a means to pay back the debt taken for their evils.
In some cases the girls are also at fault. They do not understand what a new place has in store for them, where they are migrating in search of a job and more income. A number of girls become victim to these dubious job offers made from foreign countries especially in the Middle East.
There have been a number of reports as to how women and girls on arrival to a foreign land are deprived of their passports and forced to work as sexual laborers.
A newspaper report recently highlighted how Manipur girls were rescued in Malaysia from a sex racket. The travel agent who was behind the conspiracy was also held by the police.
Five girls from Manipur were rescued by the Indian Embassy officials. These girls aged about 25 years were lured by a travel agent for well paid jobs in Singapore. On reaching Malaysia they were deprived of the passports and then beaten up to join prostitution.
When the officials learnt the fact they saved the girls who were brought back to India.
But all girls are not lucky. Some go and never return, and despite our understanding that a girl has gone missing mysteriously we don’t react. There are girls who have been sold to brothels at the age of going to schools.
We know this trade exists and girl trafficking is common in this country. Are we doing something to stop this trade? Indeed no. We have not realized that this is an ugly practice of exploiting women by treating them like goods for profit.
We should not be happy for being lucky enough to live freely in a world where this illegal trade a part of human slavery continues silently and unabated. And shamefully, for some males being the first to destroy virginity of a girl is an act of bravery.
This is a social crisis and need immediate attention. A number of backward and tribal areas of our country are most prone this trade. The girls are sold to brothels and hookers in big cities of the country.
We must understand the complexity of the issue and develop a strategy to check girl trafficking. Social awareness can bring a change. To what extent is an unanswered question? Despite country witnessing a sea change of development in
the basic issues girl trafficking has not stopped.
We would have to kill the demand areas. It is time to identify the persons involved and cut off the supply using severe methods of trial and prosecution. The issue should be taken up like all national problems and the guilty should be dealt with an iron rod.
There are no words to explain the sexual slavery and girl’s trafficking being carried out in this civilized world. Not even a girl who has underwent the horrors of being sold, slaved, raped and then distributed amongst the frustrated males, can describe the sufferings faced.
No woman can brief about this inhuman world of sexual slavery. The only feeling that may work is “Hope”. We would have to expose the evil of this trade where girls are enslaved and sexually abused for money.
Do not cry, sympathize and feel guilty for these girls. Gather courage to face the truth and the consequences to counter it. Its time to fight and get released the girls locked up in this draconian system.
Don’t just try to guard and protect your family. What if you personally knew the small girl who was sold to a brothel at a tender age?
I was angry and felt depressed for the girls and wished to be more emotionally strong. It was heart breaking to realise the compelling agony some girls of this country face. I felt the pain for lives being ruined by sex trafficking in this country where women have been respected from centuries.
And I was sad that this disturbing crime has transpired in all parts of the country. Thousands of young women fall victim to this every year. It’s a crude reminder of degrading morale values in us, the humans. It also shows that this beautiful world is a dangerous, very treacherous, tragic place for a number of women.
A couple of times media reports have made startling revelations about women and girls being smuggled to Middle East countries like Dubai, Oman, Malaysia, USA, South Korea etc,.
They are forced to work in brothels as prostitutes, bar girls and a number of times as sexual slaves of the paranoid rich. A “no” forces them to face the most horrible time of their life including sexual abuse and severe beating. Many of them are locked up under dingy conditions until they break agreeing to the demands.
The socio-economic conditions of this country are held responsible for this problem. The worst affected are the border regions of the country. It is said that poverty is perhaps the biggest reason for a mother, father, brother and other family members to sell the girls.
In a number of cases the parents sell or mortgage the girl child or a young girl against a loan taken. They are not able to pay back the debt and the girl is never rescued back to home.
But I feel, more than poverty it is the greed for money that pushes girls into this dangerous circle of sexual exploitation and prostitution. Parents looking aside the values sell their girls for money. Fathers, husbands and brothers force the girls and women in their family towards prostitution and many a times as a means to pay back the debt taken for their evils.
In some cases the girls are also at fault. They do not understand what a new place has in store for them, where they are migrating in search of a job and more income. A number of girls become victim to these dubious job offers made from foreign countries especially in the Middle East.
There have been a number of reports as to how women and girls on arrival to a foreign land are deprived of their passports and forced to work as sexual laborers.
A newspaper report recently highlighted how Manipur girls were rescued in Malaysia from a sex racket. The travel agent who was behind the conspiracy was also held by the police.
Five girls from Manipur were rescued by the Indian Embassy officials. These girls aged about 25 years were lured by a travel agent for well paid jobs in Singapore. On reaching Malaysia they were deprived of the passports and then beaten up to join prostitution.
When the officials learnt the fact they saved the girls who were brought back to India.
But all girls are not lucky. Some go and never return, and despite our understanding that a girl has gone missing mysteriously we don’t react. There are girls who have been sold to brothels at the age of going to schools.
We know this trade exists and girl trafficking is common in this country. Are we doing something to stop this trade? Indeed no. We have not realized that this is an ugly practice of exploiting women by treating them like goods for profit.
We should not be happy for being lucky enough to live freely in a world where this illegal trade a part of human slavery continues silently and unabated. And shamefully, for some males being the first to destroy virginity of a girl is an act of bravery.
This is a social crisis and need immediate attention. A number of backward and tribal areas of our country are most prone this trade. The girls are sold to brothels and hookers in big cities of the country.
We must understand the complexity of the issue and develop a strategy to check girl trafficking. Social awareness can bring a change. To what extent is an unanswered question? Despite country witnessing a sea change of development in
the basic issues girl trafficking has not stopped.
We would have to kill the demand areas. It is time to identify the persons involved and cut off the supply using severe methods of trial and prosecution. The issue should be taken up like all national problems and the guilty should be dealt with an iron rod.
There are no words to explain the sexual slavery and girl’s trafficking being carried out in this civilized world. Not even a girl who has underwent the horrors of being sold, slaved, raped and then distributed amongst the frustrated males, can describe the sufferings faced.
No woman can brief about this inhuman world of sexual slavery. The only feeling that may work is “Hope”. We would have to expose the evil of this trade where girls are enslaved and sexually abused for money.
Do not cry, sympathize and feel guilty for these girls. Gather courage to face the truth and the consequences to counter it. Its time to fight and get released the girls locked up in this draconian system.
Don’t just try to guard and protect your family. What if you personally knew the small girl who was sold to a brothel at a tender age?
