One of a 12 maids who returned home to Cambodia from Malaysia. They claimed they were physically abused as well as raped. [Pha Lina/Phnom Penh Post]Sen David as well as David Boyle
The Phnom Penh Post
Friday, 03 Feb 2012
A Cambodian lassie who reportedly gave birth in jail to a child conceived after she was kidnapped as well as raped in Malaysia, returned to Cambodia upon Thursday with her baby as well as 11 alternative purported victims of vicious abuse yesterday.
The sobbing, visibly traumatised women arrived during Phnom Penh International Airport yesterday, one in a wheelchair since she was as well diseased to walk.
At slightest two had transient attempted rapes whilst others were knocked about as well as worked almost non-stop prior to they were thrown in jail as illegal immigrants, rights groups Licadho as well as a Cambodian Legal Education Centre pronounced yesterday.
An 18-year-old victim recounted how she was regularly raped over a two-month duration by a man after escaping from an violent employer about 10 months ago, as well as afterwards arrested when military raided a perpetrator's house since her passport had been confiscated.
"She stayed in jail for 7 monthsthe military kept her in jail until she delivered a baby," he said, adding she was authorised to give birth in a healing trickery prior to being taken back to prison.
When another of a women, who transient an attempted rape, took a matter to a Malaysian court, she was promised authorised await by a Cambodian embassy which never materialised as well as was thrown in jail for immigration violations, he said.
Officials from a Cambodian embassy in Malaysia were not accessible for comment.
Article 25 of Malaysia's 2007 Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act protects victims! of traf ficking from rapist charge for immigration offences, yet in practice these supplies have been frequently not applied.
Muhammad Sha'Ani Bin Abdullah, a supervision official during a independent Malaysia Human Rights Commission, pronounced foreign trafficking victims were "not in safe hands" if they went to his country's police, which treated them similar to criminals.
"We would actually recommend which military have been cut out of these matters. The Human Rights Commission is really unfortunate about a situation, with steady denials by military though steady incidences of rapist activity," he said.
Orn Srey Neang, 24, from Kampong Speu province, pronounced it was similar to hell operative for her employer, who let her sleep for usually 3 hours per day.
"They systematic me to work so much. There was no time for lazy or eating. I usually ate marred food any day. I am also human, so because they did they give me marred food? I could not endure," she said.
Bowing her head as well as crying, Chan Thy, 23, thanked a government, as well as their NGO partners a International Organisation for Migration as well as a International Red Cross for saving her from an employer as well as agency which hadn't paid a cent of her salary.
"I had no rights. They deliberate me as a slave," she said.
Chhiv Phally, emissary of a Ministry of Interior's anti-human trafficking as well as youthful protection department, pronounced a victims were now being interviewed by military as well as would shortly lapse to their families.
"During interviews, they pronounced they had transient from their employer's house after work abuses," he said, urging Cambodian girls not to pour out in to pursuit opportunities abroad.
Returning maids have horrific tale (Phnom Penh Post)
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