Friday, April 27, 2007

the modern day comfort women

A girl left the Philippines when she was 16 when she was offered a job in France. She was forced into prostitution in the Ivory Coast by a Filipina woman and her Chinese husband. For years, she thought she was in France when in fact she was working for a bar in conflict laden Ivory Coast. She was forced to have sex with numerous men, some of whom refused to use condom. One day she learned from a Lebanese customer that she is not in France. She had a French boyfriend, who upon his return to France searched the internet for an organization that could help rescue her from such a dismal fate. Sounds like good movie material but it did happen and will continue to happen to hundred of Filipinas.

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