| Show r 1 The Salt Lake Tribune Baghdad to Zurich Chinese women are smuggled at night from the south Thai coast into Malaysia where they are said to be in great demand A Chinese girl called a "Green Dragon" can be bought for anything from $2000 to $4000 Once at work she is called a "Golden Dragon" Sometimes men use the women as stakes in Today's Slaves Work As Hookers Maids Hands I Continued from A-- 1 Mni gambling The Thai Foreign Ministry estimates that some 70090 Thai women work in Japans thriving flesh trade some willingly since the rewards are so lucra- bondage A new report says some 4500 domestics mostly women from as far away as the Philippines are held in debt bondage by employers who often beat them lock them up even rape them while pay t ing-- them $190 a month Princesses diplomats doctors of medicine and I other normally respectable people keep bonded in- t dentured domestics in virtual slavery and all too t often their misdeeds go unchecked" said a recent ' report by International In some ways the new slavery is even more brutal i than the old Slavery predates the Babylonian Empire of the i' 18th century BC but even under the Babylonian I King Hammurabi who forged a famous code of laws li slaves had rights and could even buy their freedom liIf0 The ancient Hebrews granted freedom for any He il braic slave after six years The Romans routinely freed their slaves who fre: tutored Roman children in algebra gef 1(penny then and poetry Terence one of Rome's most t 1 famous comic playwrights was a slave who was edu- t cated by his master then freed Also the offspring of t 1 slave woman and her Roman master was born free ) t i Today's slaves pass their bondage on to their chil- dren who are born to work off the debts of their l ' I 1 parents The new slavery is contrary to the laws of almost I ' ia all countries and to international law i That s the view of human-right- s workers who have traveled all over the world interviewing slaves who 1 1 have managed to escape some hiding out in foreign i ' I embassies to avoid more physical and sexual abuse Following a recent Congressional Human Rights it c Caucus forum Rep Joseph Kennedy said t "We heard testimony from one witness of villages in i t1 India that lost literally 25000 children to the slave i :i trade which took these youngsters as maids to i 1 1 places like Kuwait and other Persian Gulf nations The No 1 provider of foreign exchange in some : ! : countries is illegal and illicit prostitution that uses i I tive - Dorothy Thomas director of the Women's Rights Project of Human Rights Watch says the Thai sex industry lures some 10000 Burmese girls a month many iecruited in remote villages with promises of jobs as domestics or waitresses "And when I say girls I mean girls" Thomas says "The average age of the women we interviewed was 16 One was 12 years old" "The women and girls never see any money- Thomas says "They keep only the tips they get from their clients and the rest of the money they are told is going against their debt "They serve anywhere between seven and 15 clients a day They work 12 to 18 hours a day except when they are menstruating "And between 50 percent and 70 percent of the girls we interviewed were IIIV positive Ultimately they die" Antislavery International of London documents hundreds of cases where men women and children of South America are lured thousands of miles from home with promises of work and good wages only to work under the overseer's gun The latest estimate puts some 10000 in Brazil alone Hired gunmen keep the slaves in tow Murder is frequent Sometimes the slave workers are exterminated to avoid paying them altogether In 1991 Brazilian authorities heard of one case where workers having completed the nut harvest were led to a ranch house paid and then gunned down "This kind of ambush happened three or four times" says Alison Sutton in Antislavery's Reporter Human-right- s organizations and nongovernmental agencies try to keep track of the numbers but they can only tally those that surface The instrument of servitude is usually money then bondage otherwise intimidation and force There are several forces of poverty and culture that build the market: There is an almost insatiable appetite for domestic help in the Middle East and among the nabobs of Asia Once in that employ the domestics soon learn that they have no rights in their new resident country nor minimum wages nor the right to negotiate their own contracts Rape and beatings are routine IV The sex trade is blurred Some women know full well what the future holds and are willing to barter their bodies for the promise of a better future But many do not The ratio of those willing to those unwilling are hidden by the illegal nature of the trade itself Nations like Kuwait India Pakistan and others I - MI - MO ' Anti-Slaver- y ' ") ad rig ot ty rs an c1 'is -- lit ? 4 4 ss e 1- 1 I I 1 to it nt minors" I :1 i i ' : ' ' ! i ? 4 1 s 9 ' ag 1 ' k - t Iv - 't NATIONWORLD The slave trade is such an economic force that authorities wink at the perpetrators In Thailand for example the nation depends so much on its sex industry that while it is breaking up illegal brothels and arresting the women and children who work there they rarely arrest the brothel owners or the network of pimps agents and smugglers that keep the industry going Nor the local police who aid and abet their activities There are now an estimated 2 million prostitutes Iin Thailand women from which imports teen-ag- e China and Burma But Thailand is also an exporter Thai prostitutes are found in most major cities from E: positive DOROTHY THOMAS agree to United Nations mandates and the antislavs but there is ery conventions dating to the little enforcement of the laws The lack of enforcement leads to the capricious use of children Mideastern countries import young boys as camel jockeys because they are lightweight and can be driven almost as hard as the camels Other youngsters are an important source of cheap labor to the carpet industries of Nepal Morocco India and Pakistan where children as young as 4 work the mid-I950- looms In Latin America whole families (children as soon as they are strong enough to wield a knife) cut d - 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