According to the available information, in Kuwait surprisingly there are gangs that are involved in promoting forced prostitution and their area of functioning is Jleeb Al Soyouk. The agents of these gangs are constantly prowling on single females walking on the road, these agents as per available information are Taxi Drivers, mainly from Pakistan and Bangladesh and their victims are mainly Philippina girls.
These Taxi Drivers are very cruel and ruthless and they are paid handsomely by their bosses who carry on with this trade clandestinely and of course illegally. Their targets are females with no valid residence permits and residing illegally in Kuwait and also those who are persecuted by their employers and sponsors.
As appeared in print media recently, I cite an example of 2 females who were victims of their misfortune by landing in such brothels thru the chicanery of Pakistani Taxi drivers. Though the incidents are two but both are identical in nature. One was started on the road for one Filipina waiting for the Taxi to take her to her Philippine Embassy to complain of her harassment by her employer and to take shelter there in Philippine Embassy. Since she did not know the location of her Embassy and route to go there she confessed her ignorance to the taxi driver who capitalising on her ignorance and also on her shattered condition, brought her to his boss in the brothel.
Taking custody of her the Pakistani boss told her that he will provide her with a nice job and treated her nicely for two days. On the third day he raped her and told her that henceforth she will do the job of a prostitute serving 20 to 30 low grade customers which proposal she out rightly refused. Hearing her refusal the Pakistani boss got angry and assaulted her ruthlessly till she agreed and she did agree only because of her very young son living in Philippine waiting for his mother to send him chocolates without knowing what mother is undergoing in Kuwait for his sake.
She came to Kuwait to earn money to bring up her only son nicely but things worked differently. She wanted to commit suicide instead of undergoing this ordeal in the brothel serving 30 dirty customers without proper rest and food but stopped doing so because she wanted to see her son whom she loved so much.
She wanted to flee from that place but it was very well fortified with three doors one of which was of Iron and to open it you need the help of two able bodied muscular men. However, after two years she got an opportunity to escape and taking advantage of this opportunity she fled but during that lengthy period she was given by the Pakistani boss only Kuwaiti Dinars Fifty. It was the worst type of prison for that poor lady.
Similarly, the other lady suffered the ordeal but not for two years, only for 6 months but very torturous 6 months doling her body against her own wish to the strange men from different nationalities. She said the worst thing she had to do was to surrender her sacred body to someone sinful whom she does not love and to whom she does not know even. Further she said these men were so beastly that they were physically filthy and were treating her like an animal; they were no doubt human beings but devoid of human culture and human attributes seeking flesh pleasure very cheaply because they themselves were cheap.
These are only two known examples but there are so many such examples and incidents remained unknown. Because of this type of incidents there are so many poor expatriate females undergoing forced prostitution in Kuwait. It is surprising the authorities concerned are not succeeding in eradicating this menace from Kuwait by applying rigid laws for such people who are acting like hardened criminals.
In Kuwait nothing illicit can go unnoticed, here law and order situation is very good otherwise and those going against the law and order are usually reprimanded but still in Abbasiya, Jleeb Al Soyouk and elsewhere how forced prostitution is going on is itself a big question mark.
To avoid such incidents and to prevent Filipinas specially those ignorantly falling into the wrong hands, members of the Filipino community involved in their Social, Church, Sports and other activities must spread this message in their forums to alert their community members about this danger. Unfortunately Philipinas in Kuwait by virtue of their good looks, white skin, attractive presentation and soft heartedness are subjected to sexual approaches.
As a matter of information, immediately following the invasion of Kuwait on 2nd August 1990, in Kuwait City Filipinas were harassed sexually by the Iraqi invaders so much that they went underground within 48 hours of invasion of Kuwait. When sex is concerned poor Filipinas are become easy target in Kuwait.
It is not for Filipino community only, this type of messages should be spread in all the communities residing in Kuwait including Goan community that is having a vast number of domestics in Kuwait and who may likely fall prey to this illicit trade of course as usual ignorantly and unknowingly.
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