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Indians among six prostitutes nabbed
Tuesday, 12 July 2005 - 1:53 AM SL Time
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Mt. Lavinia Police on Sunday night arrested six women from two guest houses in Hotel road Mt. Lavinia. SSP, Mt. Lavinia division Willie Abeynayake said acting on a tip off, a decoy was sent to the guest house where there were three Indian women operating as prostitutes. The Indian beauties in the age group of 25-30 had arrived in Sri Lanka on a work permit from Mumbai. The decoy was charged Rs10,000 for the services of an Indian damsel for two hours. After the police swooped on the guest house, two more Indian women were arrested said SSP Abeynayake. On Sunday Mt Lavinia police also raided another guest house in Hotel road and arrested three Sri Lankan girls, in their twenties, who have been brought to Colombo from Anuradhapura and Kurunegala.A girl charged Rs 5,000 for two hours police said. According to the statement made by the suspects to the police,they have been brought to Colombo by two Pradeshya Sabha members from Wayamba who had sought the services of the suspects, promising employment in factories and later handed them over to a `madam` who was operating a lucrative business of hiring girls to various guest houses and night spots in the metropolis. The suspects were to be produced before the Mt Lavinia Chief Magistrate Athula Wikum Kaluarachchi yesterday.
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aritha_spice
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11 Jul 2005 21:41:15 GMT Report for Abuse
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What kind of a police service is this?!
When it is clear that these girls were lied into their jobs and were probably forced into inability to leave due to fear, SHOULD NOT THE POLICE BE NABBING AND PROSECUTING THE CULPRITS THAN THE INNOCENT VICTIMS?!
Here again it is further evidence of the underhand sexual discrimination fdaced by women in society. Men need to change their thinking patterns a bit and catch the crooks upon their own gender rank rather than punishing women who were forced into illegal trades. |
sk63
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12 Jul 2005 02:51:05 GMT Report for Abuse
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Dear Radaw,
Thanks for the kind words.
Aritha_Spice, good to see you back. |
nandalal
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12 Jul 2005 11:59:08 GMT Report for Abuse
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Indians are doing all sorts businesses in Sri Lanka.
Eating houses, banks, petrolium ... just to name a few.
Is prostitution the latest of the Indian business circle ?
Any business flourishes so long as there are clients.
But this may not be of very good 'taste' to our country's culture.......... |
muniraj16
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12 Jul 2005 13:06:24 GMT Report for Abuse
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In this respect I may be wrong...but to my knowledge this is an side effect of our locals being patronizing hindi culture(i mean hindi films, music..etc..). That does not mean to say local prostitution is acceptable. Sad thing about this story is Hotel Road is a place where there are three local schools and one other educational institute...are these idiots targeting school children...
chao... |
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12 Jul 2005 14:57:40 GMT Report for Abuse
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Hi all
thanks to mr tamchboy,
on this,your comment s'not being bias,so keep up the good work and reveal the prevailing truth,so every community apriciate that.
common problems such as child sex,gay sex,prostitution are not belong to a perticuler community. |
aritha_spice
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12 Jul 2005 21:21:59 GMT Report for Abuse
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Hi radaw and sk63!
Yes, it is good to be back:-)
I'm back in Sri Lanka, now that I have finished uni, so have been busy catching up with school friends and stuff.
I am sorry, but first of all I am quite surprised that a few members in this forum seem to think of prostitution as some extremely criminal activity, oblivious to and completely against Sri Lankan culture! There is not much truth in that! Our history and culture has in fact had prostitution as part and parcel of it. The famous frescoes of Sigiriya, which we boast around to the world as the 8th Wonder of the World are all paintings of the concubines (prostitutes) of the kingdom, whome those days were jobs often taken by the most beautiful women. Prostitution has happened and will continue to happen in our society. There is nothing the law can do to supress that trade. In fact, all our laws against prostitution are nothing but Victorian laws representing the absurd, sexually repressive regime of Victorian Britain, which they themselves have so eagerly gotten rid off, while Sri Lanka so loves to cling on to them, claiming it to be our 'traditional' culture. The fact that prostitution will continue to be rampant in our society and its unregulated nature leads to the exploitation of women and children needs a response to legalise this trade and regulate it so that we can ensure that brothels do not force women to labour, that the interests of the workers are taken into account, that brothels are not set up in zones close to schools or residential areas, and that safe practices are carried. Also the tax earned from the services of these brothels could be used to fund its regulation. Such a system would ensure the safety and well being of women and that only those who wilfully wants to join the trade do so.
And also, it is wrong to place child sex and prostitution in the same category as gay sex! Since when did that become such a crime?! This reflects typical heterosexual, narrowmindedness, the mentality that so loves to repress and suppress people. There is absolutely nothing wrong with homosexuality. It is someone's sexuality and it should be no one's business who anyone falls in love with or sleeps with. Buddhism is also the only religion that does not demonise homosexuality. Sri Lanka's former anti-gay laws were another result of Victorian colonisation, but as well all know, due to the liberal nature of the Sri Lankan polity, the anti-gay laws were never enforced, and were changed after much protest in 1995 so that it would become automatically unusable. Homosexuality is not some common 'PROBLEM', but it is certainly a common sexuality, not as common as heterosexuality and bisexuality, but certainly one of the main groups of sexual norms. We, as people of the free world, should learn to treat people who are different with respect and human dignity, rather than bite at everyone who is not the same as us. People should learn to respect individuality, diversity, and humanity.As long as some activity is not having direct, tremendous harm to society, then there is no need for such alarm and interference of the law into the private realms of any person. |
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13 Jul 2005 09:22:16 GMT Report for Abuse
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It is time for us to open up so called 'red light street'
I think sri Lnakan men are sexually frustrated.
Lets open red light streets, bring some Russians, Turkeys, chinese and Indians.
Then at least our women can go in a bus peacefully |
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13 Jul 2005 11:06:53 GMT Report for Abuse
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Why DumindaK???? you had a bad expeirience in SL buddy????just asked for the curiosity sake...
chao... |
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13 Jul 2005 11:59:32 GMT Report for Abuse
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I have to agree with Duminda K on the line that men in SL are frustrated.Many a time I personally had unpleasant experiences in crowded places, busses and even while going down the road...even if you wear a pair of trousers they have some vulgar comment to make.
I know its beside the topic of the thread here ..but Im living ni China now and frankly I have never heard of,seen or experienced such demeaning treatment of women here.
I have not experienced any unpleasant incidents in Bangkok either...even in crowded places...( no pinching and touching)....only in Sri Lanka...
maybe there's a grain of truth in what duminda says after all.............??? |
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