Bangladesh, in the northeast of the South Asian continent, is a beloved place by the sun, and when the sun shines on this land, the magnificent mosque in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, emits a sacred glow, and even tourists from outside the country will involuntarily slow down and pray sincerely.
Thousands of villages outside the capital are also bathed in golden light, people's faces are filled with enthusiasm and joy, and the rice on the endless farmland sways with golden wheat waves in the breeze, and Tagore's poem praises this scene as the "golden kingdom".
However, the village of Kampala, located at the foot of the capital, cannot enjoy this prestigious place, because it is a place where even the sun is afraid to touch.
Prostitute village kampala
Kampala, known as the "Village of Prostitutes", is only 90 kilometres away from Dhaka, the capital city known as the "City of Mosques," and these 90 kilometres are the distance from hell to earth.
It was a dense village wrapped in high walls, narrow and winding streets littered with smelly household garbage, and women in heavy makeup were leaning against the dilapidated wooden doors on both sides of the street waving to passers-by, showing off their bodies as if they were showing off their goods.
More than 600 rooms in this cramped space are closely connected, and the dark houses without windows imprison the women like iron cages, and more than a thousand sex workers make a living here.
Many journalists from inside and outside Bangladesh have traveled to Kandapala to investigate, and the British guardian newspaper has broadcast a documentary about it, revealing the tragic life of prostitutes and indicting the evils here.
However, bangladeshi authorities disagreed, and in March 2000, the Bangladeshi Supreme Court legalized the sex trade.
Supported by the relevant legal provisions, The village of Kampala was able to "flourish" and became the largest of the 20 legal brothel villages recognized by the government, where prostitutes were licensed to work and clients were legally prostituted.
While prostitutes are legal, the process of becoming a prostitute is not legal.
According to the actual survey data of various countries, most of the prostitutes in Kadapura village are abducted and kidnapped, from Nepal, Vietnam, Myanmar and other countries, generally aged 12 to 14, and some are even sold here by their parents.
Every woman who was sold here would sign an "Oath of Oath" under duress from the old bustard. "As soon as someone tries to resist, they get a beating.
In this way, these uneducated, illegible women "voluntarily" became legal prostitutes recognized by the government.
Not only that, but they will also be saddled with a high debt while being sold here, and the specific amount will be freely priced by the old bustard. If they want to pay off their debts and get out of here, they have to work hard to pick up customers.
The more than a thousand sex workers living in the village of Kandapala receive more than three thousand guests every day.
A client can trample on a woman's dignity and personality for 100 taka (about 8 yuan), and there are no security measures in the process of legal transactions under the so-called voluntary premise, and the woman will become sick and pregnant, but the prostitute is not responsible.
Once they get sick, they still need to use this pitiful income to treat the disease, and the debt is far from being paid off. If pregnant, it means that the tragic fate of the prostitutes will continue to the next generation.
Bangladeshi law does not allow abortion, so prostitutes who become pregnant during the sex trade must give birth to their children.
Children born in Kampala, on the other hand, are likely to find their fathers, and they lack paternal love throughout their lives.
For the ignorant toddler, descending on The Village of Kampala is only the beginning of a nightmare of a lifetime.
A child born in the village of Kampala, if male, means that he will later perform heavy manual labor like a slave.
If she is a woman, she will inherit her mother's job when she grows up, and the time of inheritance will come when the girl is 9 years old. In the eyes of old bustards and prostitutes, the 9-year-old girl has grown up.
Under the watchful eye of their mothers, the girls began to "receive guests", and the girls had to adapt to the job as soon as possible.
The sex workers who pick up customers in the village of Kandapala make more money at a young age, and 9 years old represents the "golden age" for girls to pick up customers, who paint thick makeup with shoddy cosmetics and dress themselves up, waiting for the arrival of prostitutes.
This is how girls live every day.
Due to economic constraints, girls are unable to buy nutritious food, and hunger makes the girl's body emaciated. But the people here are fat and beautiful, and prostitutes who are too thin and weak cannot get business.
At this time, girls need to regularly take a cheap drug called "oradexon" to allow their young bodies to mature as soon as possible.
"Oradexon" is a cholesterol-like drug used to fatten cattle, and livestock can grow fatter and stronger when eaten.
When people take this drug, it will cause fat to accumulate rapidly. Although it looks more plump from the outside, long-term use will lead to drug addiction, as well as excessive perspiration caused by physical weakness, but also will make the body's liver and kidney function seriously impaired, resulting in their own serious short life, so the average life expectancy of prostitutes here is only 40 years old.
But the prostitutes in the village of Kandapala had no choice.
"I don't care if I die on medication, I live on it now." A sex worker in the village of Kampala said so.
But even if human life is lost, law and justice will not come.
Bangladesh's laws have difficulty covering the village of Kandaparala at the foot of the capital, which has its own law of the jungle.
The old bustard is the absolute ruler of the village of Kadapala, responsible for bribing government officials, supervising the work of prostitutes, buying abducted girls, and punishing women who have escaped.
Here, no one can resist the authority of the bustard, and the prostitutes have to take most of the income from each reception and hand it over to the bustard, leaving only a very small part of themselves.
The prostitutes were imprisoned for their personal freedom, silently enduring the endless oppression of the old bustard. It is not that no one has thought of escaping, but once the escapees are discovered, they will be subjected to crazy retaliation, and some are even beaten to death.
Of course, even if a very small number of women have successfully fled the area, when they leave the village of Kandaparala, they will find that they will not be greeted by tagore's "golden Bengal", but a "Kandapala village" that is wider, larger, and more exploitative and oppressive.
"The Hell You Can't Get Out of"
The government of Bangladesh recognizes the legality of sex work but does not guarantee the legal rights of sex workers.
When sex workers are forced to sign an affidavit, they are branded as "prostitutes" for the rest of their lives.
Bangladesh is the Islamic State that "advocates for women to value chastity." Here, prostitutes are as difficult as they are to change careers, and the whole society is full of prejudice against them. Prostitutes fleeing the village of Kandapala are pointed out, spurned, and even scolded in the streets, and their presence is as if the holy Islamic State has been tainted.
In Bangladesh, where no one wants to marry a prostitute, these enthusiastic Bangladeshi people, who treat tourists with enthusiasm, will show a completely unavoidable attitude, disgusting, disdaining, and driving away prostitutes like street rats.
The most densely populated country in the world has no place for prostitutes, except for the place where they fled——— the village of Kampala.
When they recognized the social reality, they had to return to the village of Kadapala to continue their work as prostitutes. Everyone who came back had a dark look in their eyes, they were exhausted and no longer wanted to escape from here. In a dozen years, they will become the new old bustard, which is like a reincarnation, and it is also a hell that women cannot get rid of.
However, the Bangladeshi government is not completely indifferent to the chaos in The village of Kandapura, and in 2014, an official in Bangladesh could not tolerate the excessive spread of evil in the village of Kandapura and made a decision at a meeting to completely expel sex workers from the village of Kandapurala.
The government then violently demolished the site with a large number of men, trucks brought gasoline, and crowds claiming to be the mayor's subordinates smashed everything they saw in sight, robbing prostitutes of their possessions, and mixing cries and curses. The so-called evictions were more like a violent attack on sex workers.
The official did not find the crux of the matter, naively believing that everything was the fault of sex workers, in a vain attempt to solve the problem by brutal and brutal means.
In July 2014, the two-hundred-year-old village of Kandapala briefly disappeared, but thousands of sex workers remained homeless.
They desperately need to solve the problem of survival, where does the prostitute village come from after the demolition of their income? What positions in society can accept them? Where should these trafficked prostitutes go?
The government didn't give an answer, or the answer it gave was to ignore it.
After the violent demolition, a large number of protest marches broke out everywhere.
In late 2014, human rights groups across Bangladesh protested the government's violent practices, the National Press Club and UNAIDS condemned the government's barbarism, and the Bangladesh Women's Bar Association filed a lawsuit directly with the courts to protest the expulsion of sex workers.
The government had no choice but to agree to rebuild the village of Kampala.
Apparently, the evils that breed in the village of Dapala are not caused by sex workers, they are just a bunch of poor women.
So, what is the cause of the chaos in the village of Kandapala in Bangladesh?
This also starts from the history of Bangladesh, which was colonized by the British since 1757, classified by the British as the next province of the Indian jurisdiction, and divided into east and west by the British in 1904.
Until January 1972, the People's Republic of Bangladesh was officially established, but internal contradictions remained acute.
In 1975, the assassination of the first president, Mujib, was followed by repeated regime changes in Bangladesh, plunging the country into severe internal friction.
Even after seeing the stagnation of domestic development, the struggle between the political parties in the DPRK still refused to stop, and in just over a decade, the struggle in the political arena intensified, and even serious bloody conflicts broke out.
The death toll for all parties is as high as thousands, unprecedented in any country in the world with a stable regime.
Frequent regime changes have resulted in poor happiness, negative work attitudes, slow economic development and severe poverty in Bangladesh.
It is only in recent years that Bangladesh's economy has begun to grow rapidly.
However, Bangladesh is still defined by the United Nations as "one of the least developed countries in the world", with a single economic and industrial structure, and the country's economic income mainly depends on agriculture.
With 160 million people packed with 177,500 square kilometers, inadequate infrastructure, a backward education system, and an extreme poverty in the country, women are severely short of jobs and dependent on men, and "brothel villages" like Kandapala have proliferated.
epilogue
Bangladesh has a huge number of "legal prostitutes", because the sex trade can create wealth for the government, and the overly poor Bangladeshi government has no concern for protecting women's human rights, and is determined to exchange these poor women for state taxes.
However, the use of the sex trade to develop the economy was by no means an excuse for violating women's legal rights, the people were not data to create wealth for the Government, and Bangladesh's recognition of the "legality of the sex trade" but not the protection of women's human rights must be strongly condemned.
The Government of Bangladesh should find more rational ways to develop the country's economy, poverty was not a pretext for condoning coercion and evil, and the authorities should reduce the depletion of national power caused by infighting, promote equality between men and women, no one should be born a prostitute, and everyone should have the right to education.
In addition to the need for economic reform, the backwardness of thinking should also change, and prostitutes should be guaranteed to live under the sun.
The 21st century is a century of continuous development, and we have reason to believe that with the economic development of Bangladesh, gradually eradicating poverty and driving more jobs, the "Kampala Village" will surely disappear in the near future.