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'Tradition' of victimisation
By Chularat Saengpassa
The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- LOCAL OFFICIALS have a tradition of procuring underage girls to satisfy visiting senior officials’ sexual fantasies, an anti-human trafficking group said yesterday.

 

“This tradition has existed for a really long time already in the provinces,” said Ronnasit Proeksayajiva, chief investigator at Nvader, an NGO that investigates and combats human trafficking.

 

He said some victims were younger than 10 years of age and the youngest victim Nvader had rescued was an eight-year-old Cambodian.

 

“Some local officials have procured girls to please their bosses. Some have done so because they are sexual-service agents,” Ronnasit said.

 

He said it was not difficult to gather information on prostitution rings as even hotel bellboys, for example, had information on such practices.

 

“The problem of child prostitution has existed across various sectors in Thailand, not just among civil servants,” he said.

For example, a prominent sportsman had sought child prostitutes wherever he went, Ronnasit said without elaborating about his identity.

 

Ronnasit spoke up in the wake of a scandal that suggested several officials might have bought sexual services from minors.

Girls are often coerced into the sex trade as they are lured into |trying drugs, with activities recorded on camera, and then blackmailed.

 

“In fact, laws don’t punish drug-takers but children do not know about this. They are afraid and end up being victimised,” Ronnasit said.

 

His information echoed what a mother from Mae Hong Son province told police. She said her underage daughter got involved in the sex trade after she was videotaped taking drugs and then blackmailed.

 

The complaint from the mother has exposed a child-prostitution ring in Mae Hong Son, causing a scandal involving several officials.

 

Ronnasit said it was extremely sad that such a culture existed not just among civil servants but also company employees.

“We need to change the attitudes. We need to promote the conscience,” he said.

 

The Centre for Girls, which works to protect girls in the border province of Chiang Rai, has disclosed that many schoolgirls entered the sex trade at the encouragement of friends.

 

“We are now trying to educate girls to boost their immunity against the risks of being dragged into the flesh trade. We have gone to restaurants to educate ethnic girls who work there so that they know how they can protect themselves,” the centre’s coordinator, Natnaree Luangmoi, said.

 

She added that her centre had also provided help to girls who wished to stop sex work.

 

Natnaree said that with officials involved in child prostitution, it was difficult to expect that the problem would ever end.

 

The Foundation for Women director Usa Lertsrisantad said she had been trying to help women and girls deal with various kinds of problems, including forced prostitution, for 30 years.

 

“With child prostitution existing for the past three decades, it is clear that the culture of procuring girls for bosses’ sexual desire still rages on. The government should do something about this,” she said.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/national/30313577

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-04-28

[ezzra]

 

To say that such appalling ' tradition ' is only practiced in far flange border towns

will be wrong, this kind of underage grooming and servicing for hi So and other

dignitaries are probably practices in may areas of the country, and this one

more ill that the Thai government has to take care of promptly....

[kannot]

the true Thai underbelly, make no mistake this runs thru the core

[lamyai3]

17 minutes ago, ezzra said:

 

To say that such appalling ' tradition ' is only practiced in far flange border towns

will be wrong, this kind of underage grooming and servicing for hi So and other

dignitaries are probably practices in may areas of the country, and this one

more ill that the Thai government has to take care of promptly....

Agree, albeit mildly concerned in that you seem to have been autocorrected from flung to flange!

[darksidedog]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Natnaree said that with officials involved in child prostitution, it was difficult to expect that the problem would ever end

When the very people responsible for stopping and preventing this disgusting behaviour, are the very ones organising and participating in it, bringing it to an end is going to be a very difficult problem. Shame on you Thailand. This is really sick. Other countries have pedos, but rings there are not run by the authorities.

 

[yellowboat]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

The government should do something about this,” she said.

The governments abilities stop at organizing beach chairs and building bike lanes.  They have trouble investigating the matter of a simple stolen commemorative plaque.  Something of this magnitude is out of this government's sphere of influence.  

[NCC1701A]

Thailand is a Mafia police nation state.

 

 

[digibum]

Wait, you mean all those stories written by know-it-all foreigners who have spent 2 weeks in Thailand saying that in Pattaya every girl working in a bar there is underage and a sex slave isn't what Thailand's underage sex problem is about?  Shocking.  

 

This is what happens when do-gooders try to demonize sex trafficking and underage prostitution by labeling it a sex tourist problem.  90% of this stuff is happening Asian-on-Asian (a lot of Thai-on-Thai but also a lot of Thai-on-Cambodian and Thai-on-Burmese too).  They do some crackdowns.  Catch a 17 year old freelancing here and there and everybody pats themselves on the back that they're saving the children.  

 

But it's hard raising money to keep Thais from taking advantage of other Thais.  Nobody back in Farangland wants to read those stories.  So they write shocking exposes about white men going to SEA for underage sex and suddenly the money starts flowing in.  Meanwhile the real problem continues unabated.  

[chrisinth]

IMO to still call this a 'tradition' is undermining in itself. It is organized crime and perversion. 

[Peterw42]

There are legitimate NGOs that do great work tackling real problems, however,

 

There are NGOs in Thailand that have a vested interest in portraying, exaggerating and even making up an image of out of control child sex trafficking and prostitution. Its there business. They set up a charity and a website in their home country, feed the western media horrific stories of 1,000s 12 years olds, sold into the sex trade and locked in a basement of a walking st/Bangla rd bar. Even if there is only a remote aspect of truth to it.

The money pours in, pays for a house, car, lifstyle in thailand, gets you a visa/work permit etc.

Every now and then they report on there website how they talked a 20 year old into quiting the bar and getting a job in 7/11.

 

[mtls2005]

1 hour ago, chrisinth said:

IMO to still call this a 'tradition' is undermining in itself. It is organized crime and perversion. 

One person's perversion is another's "tradition". Depends on your status I guess?

 

The blurring between organized crime and "tradition" here has a very, very, very long history.

[JerryinTH]

45 minutes ago, Peterw42 said:

There are legitimate NGOs that do great work tackling real problems, however,

 

There are NGOs in Thailand that have a vested interest in portraying, exaggerating and even making up an image of out of control child sex trafficking and prostitution. Its there business. They set up a charity and a website in their home country, feed the western media horrific stories of 1,000s 12 years olds, sold into the sex trade and locked in a basement of a walking st/Bangla rd bar. Even if there is only a remote aspect of truth to it.

The money pours in, pays for a house, car, lifstyle in thailand, gets you a visa/work permit etc.

Every now and then they report on there website how they talked a 20 year old into quiting the bar and getting a job in 7/11.

 

 

Unfortunately very true. The  amount of NGO's you see in Cambodia is incredible. Even the famous Somaly Mam was exposed for making up stories to collect donations from celebs.

I remember a story where she said they poured acid in the child's eye and she rescued her. Later it came out that this never happened and the girl had an eye infection or operation years prior. 

There were also rehearsals from the girls who could tell the story best on TV and such disgusting things. 

The problem will not stop until the money stops coming in. 

[starky]

3 hours ago, darksidedog said:

When the very people responsible for stopping and preventing this disgusting behaviour, are the very ones organising and participating in it, bringing it to an end is going to be a very difficult problem. Shame on you Thailand. This is really sick. Other countries have pedos, but rings there are not run by the authorities.

 

Yeah they are run by the church 

[DM07]

...but two girls lifting their shirts on Songkhran... 

[sgracer]

3 hours ago, darksidedog said:

When the very people responsible for stopping and preventing this disgusting behaviour, are the very ones organising and participating in it, bringing it to an end is going to be a very difficult problem. Shame on you Thailand. This is really sick. Other countries have pedos, but rings there are not run by the authorities.

 

 

certain members of the UK gov had one up until the 80's

[maxcorrigan]

5 hours ago, darksidedog said:

When the very people responsible for stopping and preventing this disgusting behaviour, are the very ones organising and participating in it, bringing it to an end is going to be a very difficult problem. Shame on you Thailand. This is really sick. Other countries have pedos, but rings there are not run by the authorities.

 

That might be so, i believe you are from the UK, so you should know the authorities might not run these rings, but they certainly turn a blind eye to these grooming rings, as in Rotherham and Saville cases and many more, they certainly knew what was, and probably still is going on!

[SOUTHERNSTAR]

The lazy civil servants are not only lazy but also phedo's. Maybe if they did an honest days work they will not have time for this type of activities. Civil servants in this country is a massive part of its problem, any government that wants to stop corruption must fire everyone of these lazy creatures and then after passing lie detecting tests they can reapply for their jobs. As 90% of them will fail such tests the civil service will shrink and save this country billions.

[Redline]

Slime

Edited April 28, 2017 by Redline