Thai Police Say 71 Freed In Human Trafficking Raid

[Tiffer]

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target the customers too, and strip away the demand<br /><br />no demand, no need to supply<br />

<br />Agreed.<br />

<br /><br />What, people wishing to sleep with 17 yr olds?<br /><br />Isn't the AOC in the UK and most of the Western world 16?  <br /><br />Sounds like you'l be fighting against the laws of nature.   <img src='http://static.thaivisa.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/ermm.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /><br />

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UK age of consent is 16 but full legal responsibility is 18 and then out friends in the US with their "dry til 21 rule" tish.

Not exactly rational is it!

Supply and demand

What? No demand equals no supply???

This is easier to answer that "chicken and egg" my friend.

We can create demand...

[Tiffer]

<br />They should be horse whipped and then 20 years in jail,for bringing under 18,s in<br />

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So you are OK with trafficking over 18's?

[Bagwan]

A repeat operation in every town along the border with Myanmar please. My understand is that there is no direct police involvement. They merely own the premises and turn a blind eye at what goes on inside the walls and collect astronomic rentals.

so the police are taking money from a brothel and turning a blind eye ???,......... oh, thats ok then , they could have looked into it !!

It might be OK with you but it certainly isn't with me. Both the police landlords and the harridans and viragoes who control the activities with the walls should be behind bars. Many of the girls, mainly from Myanmar, are chained to beds and cannot escape. The pretty ones are sold on the the central and southern cities in the country.

[Bagwan]

poverty creates crime.

poverty relinquishes morals and values.

poverty explains "everything"

poverty justifies "everything"

yeh right.

But does poverty justifies broken lives?

in my dictionary there is only 1 race that is to say HUMAN RACE.

POVERTY DEPRIVES HUMAN BEINGS OF THERE DIGNITY.

Not so. I maybe poor but I am pure. Greed, avarice, laziness, both physical and mental, and jealousy breed crime.

[Bagwan]

70 Lao girls rescued after raid on Sadao

By The Nation on Sunday

National Police Chief Pol Gen Wichean Potephosree yesterday ordered a probe into police in the South after the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) raided a karaoke bar in Songkhla's Sadao district on Friday

Wichean said the disciplinary probe led by Provincial Police Region 9 chief Pol Gen Weerayuth Sitthimalik would see if any officer had neglected their duty to act against vice.

Wichean's comment was made after DSI, Social Welfare and Human Security officials and local police freed 71 females - including 13 girls under 18 - on Friday who had been lured into prostitution in a karaoke bar and spa in Sadao, following complaints by the Laotian embassy in Bangkok.

Some 70 of the rescued were reportedly from Laos while the remaining lady was from Burma. A Singaporean man, a Malaysian man and a Thai woman were charged with human trafficking and illegally procuring sex.

-- The Nation 2011-07-31

General Wichean, you're full of BS. You can look until the cows come home but the official result will say that the police have not neglected their duty but have been their normal avaricious corrupt selves.

[Considered Opinion]

They should be horse whipped and then 20 years in jail,for bringing under 18,s in

Then where would you go?

[Wallaby]

Not so sure I would be blaming the punters. If I go into a gogo bar etc I expect the girls to be of age and also of their own free will. I don't go interrogating the owners/managers about how they run their business. If I hear or have an idea that all is not above board in a place then I won't go into it.

If they are trafficked then tar, feather, castrate, lock up the people that traffick them, but not the punters who may be oblivious to what is going on.

[Beetlejuice]

They should be horse whipped and then 20 years in jail,for bringing under 18,s in

Is horse whipping included in the price?

[scorecard]

From what studies I've read around half of Thai males lose they're virginity to girls of the night. Most of their customers are probably <25.

If you think 17 yr olds sleeping which each other is against the laws of nature you seriously need to contact most civilized, Western countries and their givernments.

Sure, there might be a few "younger" customers, but that still doesn't make it right. Selling children is still a very <expletive removed> up thing to do.

And if you think that most of the brothel customers in Thailand are under 35, you seriously need a big fat reality check.

Have you even seen the red light districts of Thailand, and what kind of people drolling around there? I find it very hard to believe.

btw these brothels aren't in anyway related to what you'll see in any redlight district.

I don't think you've been here very long.

That's my understanding too, the soi cowboy / patpong etc., areas are a tiny part of the total picture, and it's my understanding the venues outside of cowboy / patpong etc., areas see very large numbers of high school boys, tech students boys etc etc. I've also been told that in the very low end places high school boys / tech boys etc etc often negotiate a deal, 5 boys X 2 minutes each for 200Baht or similar.

But that's not really the point of this particular thread.

It saddens me greatly that the various Thai governments pay little more than lip service to human trafficking.

[kerryk]

A repeat operation in every town along the border with Myanmar please. My understand is that there is no direct police involvement. They merely own the premises and turn a blind eye at what goes on inside the walls and collect astronomic rentals.

so the police are taking money from a brothel and turning a blind eye ???,......... oh, thats ok then , they could have looked into it !!

It might be OK with you but it certainly isn't with me. Both the police landlords and the harridans and viragoes who control the activities with the walls should be behind bars. Many of the girls, mainly from Myanmar, are chained to beds and cannot escape. The pretty ones are sold on the the central and southern cities in the country.

And you know this how?