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Friday , May 16 , 2008
Burma Orphans Sex Targets for Thailand
Posted by catch22 , Reader : 327 , 10:41:58  
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By NICK PARKER
in Rangoon

Published: Today

 

CHILD sex traffickers are sneaking into Burma’s cyclone refugee camps to prey on orphans, aid teams revealed last night.

It is feared the lost and alone children are being "bought" then smuggled to neighbouring Thailand to work as sex slaves.

Government officials are accused of taking payments to turn a blind eye.

A Christian Aid spokeswoman said: "Security in camps is minimal when the priority is helping people stay alive — and we have been warned the threat from sexual predators is real.

"We are pairing younger orphans with older ones to give a degree of security. It’s the last thing we need when the most pressing issue is food and water and warding off disease."

Moves were afoot last night to draft UN security teams into the camps.

Over 1,000 orphans have gathered in one in Myaungmya, north of Cyclone Nargis’s epicentre on the Irrawaddy Delta.

Hundreds are in nearby towns Pathein and Labutta, where over 80,000 people may have died.

Meanwhile a cholera, dengue fever and malaria epidemic is feared across Burma, putting more than a million in danger.

Several hundred aid workers have so far reached around 100,000 victims.

But the military junta is refusing them access to plane loads of food, medicine and equipment sitting in capital Rangoon, amid claims it is being pilfered for troops and sold on.

Instead aid workers are being forced to buy food and transport locally.

Despot General Than Shwe, who claims no foreign experts are needed, has provided just four of Burma’s 80 helicopters to fly aid across thousands of square miles.

But a chopper was being used to ferry Burma PM Thein Sein on a propaganda tour of camps.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1170311.ece

 

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comment 13
Ian date : 17/05/2008 time : 10.28
http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/anterian36

At the risk of sidetracking this blog, I would suggest there are two types of paedophiles.
There are the high profile, media attracting types, who pay for their activities and are not bothered by the source of their victims.
Then there are the types that Felix describes, family friends, relatives, and people who have control over children, priests, monks, teachers etc.
This last group, which I would suggest is immensely greater than the first group, normally gets dealt with discretely by the family of the child and so does not become a statistic.
However, in numerous sociological surveys most adults appear to have had some paedophile experiences in their childhood. Sometimes this has created a permanent trauma but in most cases with no lasting effects.
The more "primitive" a culture, the more paedophilia seems to be accepted.
Returning to the core message of this blog, is an orphan being helped for paedophile motives better off or worse off than an orphan getting no help? This is a moral dilemma to which I think every person may have a different response.
It boils down to should one sell one's body in order to stay alive? Children lack the maturity to make this choice, this is why we adults find it repugnant.
So I will ask this question. Why can evil men, trafficers in children, find it possible to get hold of these children yet good people wanting to help are denied access?
This is a question we should not only be asking ourselves but also our governments.
comment 12
Poomjai date : 17/05/2008 time : 00.28
http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/poomjai

Ian,

You are right, in a sense. There is a danger of becoming so paranoid about paedophiles that common acts of kindness towards children are misrepresented and misunderstood. Felix is also right that much sexual abuse of children happens when the child knows their predator. However, there is also a danger of being complacent. Abduction of cute kids happens now in areas where children do not have access to protection and perhaps do not have clear status. They are mostly sold on into the wider sex trade rather than used for abuse by a particularly vile individual. But the crime is no less heinous for it.
comment 11
FelixQui date : 16/05/2008 time : 23.26
http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/FelixQui

I agree with Ian. The fuss about paedophiles is out of all proportion to the danger.
Worse, much worse for childen, the misconceptions are dangerous: it isn't strangers who are the main threat, it isn't visiting peds from other countries. The facts are that the real threat is from family members and family friends, and I would guess in Thailand, monks. The social set up is too similar to that of the Roman Catholic set up to believe it could be otherwise. So where is the investigation to find out the truth?
Priests who abused children in the US and other western countries were able to do so because they were known to, were friends of and were trusted by the families of the children they abused. They were not strangers. Most pasedophile abuse is not committed by strangers. The real paedophile problem in Thailand is almost never reported, and it is probably big. The local paedophile problem is almost certainly vastly larger than that from sex tourists, most of whom simply don't have the opportunity to commit the acts they might like to, whereas locals can, and presumably are. Why isn't this being investigated?
comment 10
Hermano_Lobo date : 16/05/2008 time : 20.27
http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/yurivelasquez

RWS wrote:"It's almost too horrific to even think about.What can the average person do to help, even a little?"

Nothing can be done while the Ghouls run the system in Burma.

It is a tragedy of immense proportions.
comment 9
Ian date : 16/05/2008 time : 20.02
http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/anterian36

PJ, I agree with you but at the same time I think the current preoccupation with paedophiles is excessive. It has reached the point where any adult male who offers a kind word to a child, or tries to help children, automatically becomes suspect.
comment 8
redandwhitestripes date : 16/05/2008 time : 18.42
http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/reallifethailand

It's almost too horrific to even think about.
What can the average person do to help, even a little?
comment 7
Poomjai date : 16/05/2008 time : 18.35
http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/poomjai

Catch,

There was a similar concern after the tsunami. Paedophiles and other sex pest should all be castrated (I am sure we have had this conversation before).

On the subject of adoption, a friend of mine who formerly lived in Burma ended up adopting a Nepalese child, as a quicker alternative (only took about 18 months). Odd eh? So many kids in need of a loving home, and they are preventing from having just that by stifling, pointless bureaucracy.
comment 6
Hermano_Lobo date : 16/05/2008 time : 17.50
http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/yurivelasquez

Now is the time to invade Burma !
"Can't be done."
Why ? They have oil !
"No Weapons of Mass Destruction. More importantly we musn't upset 'Most Favoured Chinese!"
Now I understand, but the Chinese are doing their best to help their people?
"Different agenda."
Thank you World for abandoning the stricken people of Burma.


Lest We Forget
comment 5
Ian date : 16/05/2008 time : 13.52
http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/anterian36

It has been said that only affluent nations can afford charity, and only affluent people can afford to help others. I guess that puts Thailand firmly in the 3rd world.
Yet strangely I have been led to believe that one of the best ways of making merit is to be charitable.
I guess making merit to a monk ranks higher than making merit to an orphan.
comment 4
Manhunt date : 16/05/2008 time : 13.15

Catch - We all know that with the right connections, your wish will be granted the next day itself. Amazing Thailand
It is much easier for the Burmese orphans to be adopted in other countries. I salute your heart for often highlighting all these unknown issues about Myanmar and Thailand.
comment 3
catch22 date : 16/05/2008 time : 11.33
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We (my wife and I) would love to raise a Burmese orphan, but its a lost cause here. The child would be an adult by the time everything was finalised.

I still say let the refigees leave the camps and integrate into Thai society, which will benefit from a lot of skilled people.

Thai's forget that many in the camps are doctors, nurses, teachers, chemists etc that have fled the regime - not that they are more valuable than bricklayers, plumbers, labourers etc, but when Thai's read about the camps I don't think they realise the potential that is herded into these places.
comment 2
catch22 date : 16/05/2008 time : 11.13
http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/catch22

A Thai cannot even foster a person who has spent all their life in a refugee camp in Thailand.

The government are frightened to 'let them loose' to live normal lives, in case they take all the jobs and use up the land.

OK for the Thai brothels though!
comment 1
Ian date : 16/05/2008 time : 11.01
http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/anterian36

I would offer to foster one or two such orphans, but I supect it would either be illegal or massively involved in red tape.
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