Value reached out to a local news Facebook web page for assist after she and three other girls have been lured into prostitution in Myanmar
NinJa ToDay posted a video of a woman exhibiting her Thai identification card and crying for assist. She stated within the video…
“I am from the Isaan province of Ubon Ratchathani. I and three associates had been lured into prostitution. They stated we were being hired to work at a nightclub in the Tachileik province of Myanmar. However, they were pressured to work as prostitutes at a brothel in Mong Pawk City since June of this year. We sought help from many organisations, each government and private sector, but they solely informed us to attend.”
The girl in the video, later identified as 35 year old Kae, revealed that she encountered the employment agent via a TikTok application.
The agent advertised that the office was solely a five to 10-minute journey from the Thailand border. Moreover, the agent assured them that transportation, accommodation, and meals would all be offered to them at no cost.
Kae said she agreed to work there and met with three girls interested in working there as properly. The agent then transferred 10,000 baht to the ladies for transport and asked them to journey to Chiang Rai where a man would pick them up.
The man took them to a riverside house earlier than crossing the river to Myanmar. Kae mentioned she was curious whether it was illegal to cross the border like this but the man insisted that every thing was so as.
Once in Myanmar, they were transported on bikes to the town earlier than embarking on a six-hour journey up a mountain where they have been transferred to the brothel by automotive. Kae soon realised that that they had been deceived, however the circumstances left them powerless to resist.
Upon reaching Mong Pawk City, the agent separated the women. Kae and one woman had been confined to 1 building while the remaining two have been held in a close-by location. Kae disclosed that she did not wish to promote intercourse but saw that others who resisted have been beaten and starved. She obliged fearing for her life.
According to Kae, they sought assist from every organisation that they might think of earlier than a bizarre set of circumstances modified their fortune – a Chinese businessman paid the brothel their ransom. The Chinese man provided them accommodation free of cost however he wished them to repay the ransom if they had been to return to Thailand. They are nonetheless stuck in Myanmar till somebody will pay the Chinese man.
Meaung Ubon Ratchathani Police Station Superintendent Kanongrit Darat revealed the rescue processes must comply with the system and that cops had been able to facilitate the rescue. Kanongrit said he would coordinate with relevant departments to help the ladies.
Regrettably, this incident is not an isolated case of Thai women being lured into prostitution in Myanmar..