Wen | Uncle Gu
Edited by | Gu Uncle
There is a place, known as "men's paradise, women's hell", located in the golden triangle of drug proliferation, poverty and backwardness are the labels that cannot be erased from its body.
That's right, we're talking about Myanmar.
But how many people know that Myanmar has added a new label to "Asia's largest human flesh market"
From Myanmar's two major cities to the dilapidated roads of the countryside, the red light district is everywhere and at a very low price.
Myanmar's skin and meat business has also begun to spread like the traditional black market industries such as drug trafficking and gun smuggling in The country has become a new "pillar" industry of the country.
Even in the face of the country's legal provisions in this regard, Myanmar's "sex trade" practitioners are still repeatedly prohibited and rampant.
So, what are the reasons for this phenomenon? What impact will the proliferation of "sex trafficking" have on Myanmar?
The sluggish economy has inflated the desires of the Burmese people
Myanmar, a country in Southeast Asia, borders the mainland Xishuangbanna, but we are both familiar with it and unfamiliar with it, familiar with its reputation, unfamiliar with their entire country.
When we opened Myanmar's Baidu Encyclopedia and wanted to know more about the country, a striking headline directly showed the country to the fullest.
"Myanmar is one of the least developed countries in the world"
Generally speaking, we have only heard of "developed countries" and "developing countries", and rarely heard of "underdeveloped countries", and Myanmar is not only an underdeveloped country, but also added a "most" in front of it.
It is enough to see that Myanmar is "poor" to the unimaginable "poor", and Myanmar's GDP in 2020 is 91.167 billion US dollars, ranking 67th in the world.
For example, Myanmar's land area is about the same as that of Qinghai Province on the mainland, but their annual target is not enough, and the per capita GDP of the mainland's fourth-tier cities is 1/5.
As the saying goes, "poor mountains and evil waters out of the people", the people of Myanmar live in such a depressed economic environment, the moral bottom line gradually collapses under the desire for money.
Under the poverty of the people of Myanmar, they no longer hide their desires, and it is precisely because of the intertwining of poverty and desire that the city has bred countless gray industrial chains.
Exchanging low costs for high returns is the business pursued by every Burmese businessman, and the "illegal sex trade" is also born out of this kind of business that harms the country and the people.
In the face of economic backwardness, many people can only compromise for money, which is not difficult to understand why so many women in Myanmar would do such a "special deal"
The current situation of girls in Myanmar
Although Myanmar's economy is mainly derived from tourism, it is mainly because Myanmar has many natural scenery and many cultural monuments.
Every year, it can attract a lot of domestic and foreign tourists, but they are not all against the customs and customs of Myanmar, but also many want to come here to experience the different underground markets in Southeast Asia.
The most important of these is probably the low price of Myanmar, an ordinary Burmese girl, the transaction price of one night is about 50-200 kyats, equivalent to less than a yuan.
For foreign tourists, this money is only a dime, but for Burmese girls, it is indeed a very rich income.
This income, which seems to us to be very "low", is indeed the hope of these girls' families, and sometimes they will meet foreign guests who are generous, which is equivalent to making a fortune.
Most of the young girls who usually work in this kind of work come from poor rural families, because Myanmar still follows the social tradition of male superiority over female inferiority.
Therefore, these families, which are not rich in themselves, will not provide for girls to study and study, most of them stay at home to take care of housework, and when they become adults, they will be casually found by their parents to find a mother-in-law.
When the mountains and rivers are exhausted, they will even sell their daughters to rich people to improve their own embarrassment.
And these girls, when they stepped into the industry, they were deeply trapped in the desire for money, and with these hard-working employees, underground managers were equivalent to having a cash cow.
Because they do not need to invest in any cost, the most expensive is the rent of water and electricity, but as a shady business, they usually rent a few houses in the secluded suburbs, and the cost is also very low.
After all, the loss of manpower and material resources once in the city is enormous, and since the city is too strictly regulated, these people can only move to the suburbs.
Later, as more and more people thought about it, myanmar's suburban underground clubhouses became the most developed red light district concentration in the whole of Southeast Asia.
From Yangon to Naypyidaw in Myanmar, Mandalay to the China-Myanmar border, there are long red light districts, according to local data:
Thirty miles off the road outside Nay Pyi Taw, there are more than 70 illegal sex fairs, but they are almost all small huts made of thatch and wood, very rudimentary.
Therefore, the price of services here is much lower than that of urban areas, and there is no service in Southeast Asia that is higher than here.
However, in the deserted suburbs, the flow of people is certainly not as large as in the urban areas, so how will they make ends meet?
Chief among them is the highway on the outskirts of the city, which is intertwined here due to Myanmar's unique geographical conditions, which also contributes to the layout of the clubhouse.
As we all know, in the late stages of World War II, in order to support the mainland war, allies such as the United States, Britain, India, and Burma helped us to trim a life passage in the southwest mountains.
With the Hump Route, together to provide supplies for the Nationalist army in the southwest, the Japanese army finally fell in the western Hunan area, although the road is the life channel of the mainland war of resistance.
However, it is also the life channel of overseas Chinese drivers, because the mountains between Myanmar and Yunnan are too rugged, the road is very difficult to walk, and if you are not careful, the car will overturn.
So to be able to drive from such a dangerous highway, the driver's spirit is always highly tense, if you encounter traffic jams, it is really boring.
Therefore, business is born of people, and this is how the road clubs in Myanmar come from.
Veteran drivers of high speeds in Myanmar are also commonplace in this industry, and usually when they see a flashlight flashing in front of them on the highway, the driver knows that he should brake.
Because the person holding the flashlight is a burmese road girl, if the driver wants to let the girl get in the car, he will usually flash the headlights in advance
Usually, they charge 2-5 yuan at a time, but no matter how much money the girls make from the sale, they are big losers because the disease will haunt them at any time.
It is an important way to spread VARIOUS sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS and syphilis
In a 2005 survey, 7-9 percent of women engaged in sex work had suffered from STDs, and a quarter of them were also living with HIV.
Such cross-infection has also made Myanmar the second largest AIDS country in Asia after Thailand, which has also caused great repercussions among the people.
Myanmar's health sector also provides free health care services to sex workers and provides them with condoms free of charge.
But this situation in Myanmar has not been eliminated, and the reason why women and people living with HIV are still so many is mainly that guests are basically reluctant to wear measures
Because the Burmese people's popularization of security measures is still not complete, most people still do not use them, and more that they do not understand the role of security measures.
Guests are reluctant to use it, and bosses and girls will not force customer service to wear it in order to offend customers, so the infected population in Myanmar will only increase.
It undermines social morality and violates the law
In addition to the disease, what is even more sad is that the girls who are engaged in this kind of work have basically no status and face.
When you come to Myanmar, you will see a lot of young girls or women, who will come to the nearby private clinic in groups every day, led by their bosses.
What little dignity they have left is also because of the disease being trampled under their feet, and sometimes those who are reluctant to go to the clinic will be treated more with less dignity when they return to their hometowns.
Therefore, women with diseases and repeated exploitation by bosses, guests, and neighbors for many years have no way to jump out of this fire pit.
The important reason is that there is no job in this country that allows them to rely on themselves, and if one day they give up their work because they are sick or old, the family will not raise them for nothing, and more seriously, they will be abandoned by their families.
With no skills in the first place, coupled with the disease, these girls have no possibility of returning to the normal trajectory of life.
The light is cracked by the family, and the heavy is the death of the people
Such a deformed and perverted environment not only makes girls have suffering, but even some people gradually distort their thoughts and morals in the face of huge gains.
Many people in Myanmar also abduct women and sell them to traffickers, so that they can get paid accordingly.
In Yangon, Myanmar, there was a real case, a rich girl less than 16 years old suddenly disappeared, and her father searched around unsuccessfully and had to report to the police.
After many investigations by the police, the perpetrator was finally locked and the girl was rescued, but what people did not expect was that the girl was actually her boyfriend.
The poor boyfriend tricked the girl out of the house by eloping with bait, and then sold it to a trafficker, thus receiving a reward of 150,000 kyats.
By the time the girl was found, she had been forced to pick up customers in the clubhouse for more than half a month, and she was also in a state of extreme depression, and eventually committed suicide without her family's attention.
When her parents learned of this bad news, they cried bitterly all day, and the same was true of what they said overnight, a flower-like girl, because of the greed of the people, and was destroyed.
It can be seen that the illegal sex trade in Myanmar has not only brought countless and endless harm to countless Burmese women, but also brought disasters to the families of these women.
It can also cause social security problems
Now in the neighborhoods of Myanmar's cities, you can often see such a phenomenon, a group of men who have nothing to do all day sitting together and chatting and playing cards.
And they don't need to work, because many of their wives are girls, and the entire income of the family wives sell their bodies in exchange.
But instead of feeling ashamed, these men felt that their wives should be provided for their families, and sadly, these wives also thought it was harmless.
The whole society has also fallen into a vicious circle, and men who do not work and women can only make this shoe, which to a certain extent puts the country into a more difficult situation.
Countries that are not rich in themselves are suddenly more unwilling to take Weibo's salary and invest in the construction of the country.
There are many reasons why a country can weaken, but there is only one reason why a country can always weaken, that is, the inertia of the people, we can't imagine that the people of a country have to lie and earn, how can this country prosper?
So the source of all this, whether it is the proliferation of illegal sex trafficking or the hardship of the country's entire society, stems from the inaction of the government.
In 2019, a discussion was held in a hotel in Mandalay, Myanmar, where participants hoped that through the power of the government, they could change the status quo in the country and give these poor women an account.
In fact, not only this group of people, but also more social organizations have paid attention to this special group and expressed sympathy and help for their tragic lives.
The Myanmar government has vigorously developed trade and tourism
Although the road for these women is bumpy and difficult, at least they see hope, and we believe that as long as we continue to work hard, these women and even this country still have unlimited possibilities in the future.
Among them, the most needed is the help of the state, only the Myanmar government examines itself, finds out the shortcomings, and then gradually overcomes the difficulties, then even if it is backward now, it will eventually reach the other side of victory.
Recognizing the seriousness of the problem, the Government of Myanmar has promulgated stricter, counter-attack measures and policies to change this situation.
On the one hand, increase the police force to strictly investigate illegally operated shops, once the shop is closed, it will also severely punish the manager, and curb the trading chain of many criminal groups from the source.
On the other hand, the Myanmar government is actively helping to rescue trapped sex workers, providing them with employment opportunities and helping them get on the right track.
In addition, Myanmar and other countries have signed trade and cooperation orders, many people have seen hope from labor, many farmers who once planted poppies, have changed their hearts to a variety of tropical fruits, and the harvest in a year is more profitable than their illegal cultivation of poppies.
This policy of the Myanmar government has also received a good social response, and now the country is vigorously developing tourism, and women in Myanmar have been given good employment opportunities.
We hope that such a country can recognize the development trend of the world, take its own path, get out of the quagmire of the black industrial chain as soon as possible, and enter the fast lane of healthy economy.
We also believe that in the near future, Myanmar will become a civilized country that everyone dares to go to and wants to go to!