After reading beginning The Road of Lost Innocence a very disturbing thing is happening in Cambodia. The people mostly women and young girls are being put through a system of human trafficking. Somaly Mam is sold multiple times, raped, tricked, and beaten all within this process and she has come to find that this is simply her way of life. I wanted to know the cause of why this was happening in Cambodia and the following article does a good job of describing reasons for why this takes place. A brief description of why it takes place is due to including poverty, socio-economic imbalance between rural and urban areas, increased tourism, and lack of unemployment, education, and safe migration. Women would even be used as a way to repay debts that their husbands had built up. Human trafficking is a terrible thing and Somaly even says in her book it causes her to feel ill just thinking about it.
http://www.humantrafficking.org/countries/cambodia
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