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Globetrotting | DAY.62
Of the several Southeast Asian countries on my round the world, Cambodia was the one that left the deepest impression on me. There is no need to cover up the money of tourists asking for money among the customs personnel entering the country. I met a Miami buddy in Siem Reap, riding a motorcycle to enter Cambodia from Laos, when the customs officer shouted: "This is my country, if you don't give money, give Lao Tzu a roll"! He took a gamble and crossed the route to Vietnam, running thousands of kilometers more to enter Phnom Penh. In the words of the dude: I can't accept paying to see the mood.
After becoming a French colony in the 19th century, it suffered too many wars, France, Japan, the United States, and Vietnam fought for this land, and Cambodia's civil unrest has not stopped. After countless hardships, the war finally subsided, and the perennial war made Cambodia one of the least developed countries in the world, and also made it a "paradise" for pedophiles all over the world.
In the streets and alleys of Cambodia, there are modified three-wheeled motorcycles - tutu cars everywhere. At night, as long as you and the driver look at each other for more than five seconds, he will ask you if you want to go to boom (bang bang), if you don't know English, it doesn't matter, they will use the world's common gestures to make you understand. Outside the inn where I stayed was the tutu driver's rest area, and when the dog was slipping in the middle of the night, they would try to convince you with gestures and language to try it.
In the Red Light District they even solicit customers on the street
There are many small towns on the outskirts of Phnom Penh that are seen as a hell for Cambodian children. Walking the streets of the Red Light District, male and female pimps keep coming up and saying, "$3." As long as they shake their heads and refuse, they will take the initiative to reduce the price: "$2 and 50 cents." FastCompany magazine in the United States reveals the poignant lives of Cambodian young prostitutes.
The town of Paipet, more than 500 kilometers from Phnom Penh, is regarded as a hell of Cambodian children and a paradise for pedophiles.
In a small two-story building, red light tubes create an eerie atmosphere, and on the bench sit more than 20 sexy girls dressed, the oldest of whom is 18 years old, and the rest are fourteen or fifteen years old. The old bustard didn't hide their age (there were even 5-year-old girls hiding here): "$2.50 a piece, you can mess around in the back room." The "back room" is a room of seven or eight small rooms separated by wooden planks, with wooden bed, worn-out sheets and two pillows, without a bed. Brothels like this are found throughout the town.
Because it is cheap, some prostitutes enter the brothel early in the morning, from morning to night, and "annihilate" all the prostitutes in the brothel one by one, so that at the end of the day, in addition to eating, the cost is only twenty or thirty DOLLARs, although the physical strength is exhausted, but there is a "record" of "proud of others" in the future.
And these "cheap" young prostitutes are often sold to brothels by adults and friends in the family.
When the Cambodian girl Ji You was 12 years old, her mother asked her to go to work to help the family. She did not know that what her mother wanted her to do was not ordinary child labor, but after sending her to the hospital to issue a virginity certificate, she was raped by a prostitute for two days, but the money in exchange still could not pay off the family's huge loan shark debt. She came from a poor fishing village in Svipark, a child smuggling hub in Cambodia, where almost all children aged 8 to 12 were sold.
Half of Svepark's families earn less than $2 a day (about 13 yuan), the virginity of children is a valuable asset for both men and women, and human traffickers will drive their children away in a car to meet the needs of perverted pedophile prostitutes.
Neglect of life leaves them often subjected to abuse
A wrinkled prostitute who is wearing makeup
Crumpled prostitutes living in phnom Penh slums are resting
To facilitate the "work" of the evening
The Cambodian prostitute rescue center once "rescued" a 12-year-old girl Name from the pigsty. Previously, Plei's father died of illness, because it was difficult to support the family's 4 children by relying on her mother to sell drinks at a stall, so a trafficker "bought" her for $80, took her to a large hotel in Phnom Penh to take pictures, and then locked in the room for sale. A police chief and an officer were both interested in the business, but in the end a forestry officer won the bid for $300. Over the next 3 days, he was raped by several people. On the third day, Plei felt pain in her left leg, and it turned out that someone had dislocated her leg. On the fourth day, she was resold to a brothel and thrown into a pigsty because of her vigorous struggle. For the rest of the day, she lived with pigs except for the occasional drag-out rape. In addition to rape, brothels control girls by beating them, electric shocks, pouring sulfuric acid on their bodies, and being forced to swallow heroin.
Almost every girl suffers violence
Srey Kah was raped when he was fourteen
When he was later rescued by a friend who was sold into prostitution, his hands were already scarred
In addition to rescuing teenage girls like Plei, the prostitute rescue centre also had to choose a resting place for the tortured teenage girls to die in dignity.
What is even more frightening is that many foreign prostitutes no longer look for prostitutes in pornographic places, but instead take to the streets and use money to lure children on the streets. I once saw a middle-aged European and American man in Siem Reap with a local girl of about 14 years old at dinner, sitting next to me, holding hands after the meal and disappearing into the night.
In Phnom Penh, RIN is wearing makeup
According to a survey by the Cambodian Prostitute Rescue Center, most of the clients of prostitutes, mainly Europeans and Americans, are in their 40s and 50s, who travel to Cambodia from all over the world to wander in various brothels, or spend $10 each to find a child prostitute to accompany them to the carnival.
According to the survey, there are about 60,000 prostitutes in Cambodia, and 31% of prostitutes are between the ages of 12 and 17. About 100,000 people have died of AIDS in Cambodia since 1991, and at least 120,000 are still aids. Many of the young prostitutes are people living with HIV. For these girls, there is no tomorrow if they are saved.
American movie Cambodian Holly
It tells the story of 12-year-old Holly being sold to Cambodia as a child prostitute
The tragic story of several futile escapes
Nevertheless, the Government of Cambodia is resolutely fighting and resisting all shady phenomena. Cambodia's tourism minister said in an interview with CNN:
It doesn't matter if you're poor or rich
It doesn't matter what your skin color is
If you dare to bully our girls
You will be severely punished by the law
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