This post is translation of news article from the Myanmar Express Group. A Burmese brothel in Mae Sot, Thailand. The broker, a human-trafficker, took care of all the expenses to get me here and the , kyats advance to my parents. Once I got here in Maesot I was sold straight to the brothel and now I am a whore.
Countless number of young Burmese women and girls on the border land between Thailand and Burma are the hapless victims of savage economic crisis brought on by six decades of military dictatorship in Burma. Women organizations studying the affairs of Burmese women frequently stated that there were tens of thousands of Burmese women being trafficked from Burma to Thailand every year.
In Maesot region alone on the border there are thousands of Burmese young women and girls surviving as prostitutes. Majority have been here working willingly as prostitutes and supporting their desperate families back home in Burma, but many were also the victims of unscrupulous human traffickers.
Burmese-owned Brothels in Maesot. But they all were Thai-owned and staffed by Thai prostitutes and a sprinkles of Burmese whores. Even though there were a few Burmese prostitutes working in those Thai brothels there was not a single Burmese-owned brothel in Maesot till about ten years ago.
Only then the prostitution business in Maesot began to take a distinctive shape as strictly Burmese business. In our house customers pay bahts for one fuck. Some other houses take only bahts. Out of that we and the owner split From our measly share the owner cuts rent, food, electricity, water, and even the police money. Our life is basically hand to mouth, day to day survival. Since opening a brothel is illegal here we have to pay so many people to do our business.
