Blood for Sale

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Red lipsticks, Some women with tanned skin, short skirt Some young women with golden hair, Some with sunburned skin. All of them roam around in many parts of Yangon. day, They are looking forward to those who will accompany them at night.

Ta Makray (name changed), who has been in the world of prostitution for more than 10 years, said that most of them had to spend their lives to feed their families because of poverty. It is said that she herself stepped into the world of prostitution where it is easy to make money because there are no job opportunities for their uneducated lives.

No legal work permit Those who have no guarantee of life are fed up with the world of prostitution and intend to turn their backs on the poor, The faces of their families who work day after day, She said it was difficult to get away from the images.

''It's not that they decided easily. Their pride, They have to settle their family matters immediately after putting down their dignity.''

A sex worker in Mandalay told the Yangon Times that the world of prostitution like the Makrays has become more widespread than before in Myanmar, which has opened up due to the inconvenient way of living.

``As the country becomes more open, more and more foreigners come in. With the arrival of more foreigners, the demand for the full market has grown. It's clear,'' he said. However, in Myanmar, the number of people who can have regular sex and spend money is very small. to build a company Foreigners who come to the country in various ways to give advice etc. continue hooking up with prostitutes for a week. He continued to say that ten days were cut in pairs.

``Previously, if foreigners wanted a woman, they would only hook up through a hotel. Now the format has changed and they have gone to their own club. I was lost. Talk to Burmese girls in English. I looked at the hook. If it's convenient, they go to the place where they are staying.''

Later, I emailed with that girl. The sex business operator said that every time these foreigners come to Burma, they connect each other by phone and act as cohabitants. ``Some are even high-paid girls at the level of company managers.

If these girls and these guys come to Myanmar, their company will give them a week's leave. Take 10 days and go with this guy. seven hundred thousand a week About 800,000 women, who are neither prostitutes nor prostitutes, have appeared in the cities of Yangon and Mandalay.''

Machai, According to sex industry officials, most foreigners first ask the prostitutes they connect with before the age of 18. age 14 Young girls like 15 years old are not very accepted. The head of the sex industry said that they were afraid that they would be arrested according to international laws, especially if they had sex with minors.

In the world of prostitution in Myanmar, the age of 14, Makre said that women from 15 years old to 40 years old are roaming around. According to Makhare, their lives, which are unprotected by law, are being used by the police to arrest and suppress their lives, using the Prostitution Law. torture Take care Imprisonment also made the world of prostitution wider. It is said to grow more.

''If you catch one, two more come in. I want to say that it is increasing,'' Makre said.

For example: I lead at home. This house is doing the main duty. If I am arrested, my younger sisters will become the head of the family again. Because they depend on their sister. Not forced to be. It happened by itself. Their awareness is that the affairs of the house have become my responsibility. So arresting them is like making more prostitutes.

So arrest prostitutes, If you are imprisoned, you should teach skills.

If you have a career, because you don't have money like this, Makhare said that people who are in this world because they don't have a job will not continue to work. This is for those who come here about poverty.

As Makre said. Last week, a police colonel in the western district of Yangon Region told some news media that by arresting and prosecuting prostitutes according to existing laws, prostitution would not be eradicated. The police colonel said that there should be a law to protect them, not just a law to eradicate prostitution, because the number of people working in prostitution has not decreased even though the number of cases that have been reported by the public has not decreased.

''Representatives representing the people should know the lives of the people below. Prostitution He is the people''.

Since 1949, Burma has had a law to control rape. According to this law, on the streets A lawyer who is also a lawyer said that if you do this kind of sex in public, you will be arrested. Dr. Ta Nyo Nyo Thin, who is also a representative of the regional parliament, said. The type of permit issued, She said that it doesn't mean a right, but it needs to be legal.

``Arresting people at random, not according to the law, and imprisoning them under this prostitution law is oppressing people for no reason.'' Yangon Region Hluttaw Representative Dr. Nyo Nyo Thin suggests that the police who are implementing the law need to be educated.

She criticized the police's practice of guessing the purpose of the law while ignoring the provisions of the law when it comes to suppressing prostitution.

``If you do it on the street, it will be a sin only if you do it on the street. It is very important to implement the law in practice.''

As Dr. Nyo Nyo Thin said. Makhare, a prostitute who has personally encountered it, said that she has encountered it many times.

''Based on this law, the police arrest whenever they like, Arrested when needed. Prostitutes are the ones who can be dragged if they need it.''

In their world of prostitution, it has become a tradition to be exposed to harassment without legal protection, Makha said. In addition, their customers, Abuse of consumers, Exploitation is often, if not all, experienced.

"Fifty thousand, We have no reason to complain that we will pay 100,000 yen and then not pay you the money. What they know is that you will be arrested even if you go to any place you like. There is bullying''.

Therefore, people's disdain for their world of prostitution, Legal protection, Makhare said that he expects the government's control over time. Being poor means not being educated. She said that the people of their world who choose the path of easy money because they are not educated are also the people among the people.

``From the beginning, I was not educated, As poor people, I only know fear from the ideological side. If you go to solve the problem, you will start arresting yourself first. I'm so afraid of that. If I get caught, my family will suffer.''

Daw Sanda Min, a member of the People's Hluttaw, sympathizes with the lives of the sex workers she met in prison during her incarceration. lack of education Food is very difficult; Your situation Daw Sanda Min concluded that they became sex workers because of three factors, such as not knowing their status and having too much desire to eat and wear.

''It is very difficult for them to get out of this life.

I realized that it is easy to make money because I didn't do it. I have money to eat and wear. I know I'm being exploited, but the money is easy, so I'm tired of looking for another job. Finally, there is a feeling of not wanting to change the tiring job.''

Yangon Times Journal, Volume 10 Cover article of issue #37

Quoted from Yangon Times Facebook.

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