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 7 Sep 2008 14:01:09 GMT Report for Abuse
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Karnal, April 20
A group of school girls saved two minor girls from being sold by their family members. According to residents of Hari Singhpura of this district, family members of the girls, one aged nine years and the other six, had struck a deal with to youths of Sagga village for money.
A classmate of the girls who came to know about the deal shared the information with the other girls who brought the matter to the notice of Mr Sukhbir Singh, Headmaster of Sanskar Bharati School.
They then reached the house of the girls where some people from Sagga village were present along with the youths.
The residents of Sagga who had come to Hari Singhpura clashed with villagers and amongst themselves and later left the village
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20030421/haryana.htm#3 |
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Changing Attitudes Key to Ending Child Sex Trade
By Johanna Son
In recent years many Western countries have passed laws to discourage sex tourism by making their nationals liable for sexual abuse of children overseas, but campaigners say this is not going to be enough.
There are up to one million children held in sex slavery and prostitution in Asia, often for tourists inside and outside the region. They are found in Vietnam, China, Cambodia, Thailand, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, India , Pakistan, Bangladesh and Taiwan.
Poverty is often cited as the reason for child prostitution's boom in Asia, but ECPAT finds this simplistic. Asked O'Grady: ''Why is it that some families sell their children and others do not? Why does this happen in one poor village and not another?''
He cites the case of a woman who sold her daughter in order to buy a television set, or a village headman who brokers the sale of village children to finance his lifestyle or drug habit. ''This is not poverty -- this is greed,'' he says.
This recognition prompted participants at an ECPAT conference in 1992 to say community values are being eroded by materialism and consumerism, which have ''promoted a climate in which sexual gratification and the acquisition of wealth have become the goals of many people and the symbols of happiness''.
More often, however, children are abducted and sold to syndicates or brokers who pass them on to brothel operators for several hundred dollars each.
Up to 200,000 women and children are sold into servitude in Pakistan each year, many abducted in Bangladesh and sold for sex.
Syndicates bring Filipino girls to East Malaysia, Nepalese girls to India and Indian girls to as far as the Middle East, O'Grady says in his 1994 book 'The Rape of the Innocent'
In some countries children are tricked by foreigners, paedophiles who stay in an Asian country for longer periods, frequent its sun-kissed beaches or live there as retirees. Young girls are tempted to leave their homes for cities in search of a better life, where they risk ending up as sex workers.
O'Grady says ECPAT is trying to educate families, especially in rural Asia, ''to see that they do not have to sell their children''.
Village children, including those in northern Thailand that is the main recruiting ground for the country's sex industry, are being taught about the dangers of working in cities. There, girls in villages like Bansan Luang are expected to enter brothels at the age of 12 and earn money for their families.
http://pangaea.org/street_children/asia/asiasex.htm |
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7 Sep 2008 14:09:43 GMT Report for Abuse
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About Lasith Malinga,
This is in Written in Sinhala.
http://www.rivira.lk/2008/09/07/kreeda1.htm
Also there's a good defence article. |
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7 Sep 2008 14:12:06 GMT Report for Abuse
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Chennai,
There was a guy who was very CURIOUS about Sri Lankan maids getting raped in Arab countris. Did you see him? |
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I did not know U.S Monitoring SL war crimes
WAR CRIMES AND GLASS HOUSES
It is with much amusement that I recently read the Daily Mirror article stating that the US was monitoring Sri Lanka for war crimes. Mr. Williamson must be reminded of a few facts, which obviously he and the US State Department seem to have forgotten.
Firstly, the largest ever single war crime against humanity was committed by the US in 1945 when it bombed the civilian centre of Hiroshima with an atomic bomb without any form of justification except that of saving US military lives, had they invaded mainland Japan. To compound the crime, they repeated the dastardly act a few days later at Nagasaki. Who was ever tried for these war crimes when hundreds of thousands of civilians vaporized and millions more suffered for generations? I suppose to the victor goes the spoils, and winning the WW II meant that the US forces were above the law, as they are in every theatre of war today, whether they are winning or losing.
The US is the only NATO country not to sign and ratify the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal, stating that the US armed forces personnel are above the World Court System and cannot be tried by any other authority than the US (military or civilian). This was pre-emptive action taken by the US government to prevent mass trials of their soldiers for war crimes being committed in Afghanistan and Iraq in the guise of fighting terrorism.
So the question that begs an answer: How can such a government monitor Sri Lanka for war crimes? To be listed with the likes of Burma, Darfur and Timor. It is a gross injustice. It is these types of statements that harm the image of Sri Lanka overseas and add fuel to the Tiger terrorists claim for Eelam!
Ravi Gunawardana
Edited By - Berty - 7 Sep 2008 14:20:59 GMT |
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 7 Sep 2008 14:20:44 GMT Report for Abuse
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Did you see him?
Of course ! i see Every day !
He is very Elated that his Pin Pricks are 5crewing up Singlecelled brains & all his posts are being read !
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7 Sep 2008 14:21:51 GMT Report for Abuse
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Hey United malli
How was your weekend ..? back to work tomorrow
We had a good weekend.. |
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7 Sep 2008 14:23:49 GMT Report for Abuse
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Andyprem
How ru sir?
If you want to read about Malinga..check this out
http://www.lankanewspapers.com/news/2008/9/32064_space.html |
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7 Sep 2008 14:24:24 GMT Report for Abuse
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US monitoring Sri Lankan WAR CRIMES
Pot calling kettle black:))))))
U.S. to investigate after 50 children among dozens killed in coalition air strikes in Afghanistan
http://www.japantoday.com/category/world/view/50-children-among-76-feared-dead-in-coalition-air-strikes-in-afghanistan
Don't forget Korea, Vietnam and Oil war in Iraq.
Now gimme a break about US QUESTIONING ohters about WAR CRIMES. |
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7 Sep 2008 14:26:49 GMT Report for Abuse
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Chennaiguuy,
Very good. So that guy is actually SCREWING us with his PIN PRICKS:)))
Is he the one who screwed up big time trying to LIE so many times:))))))) |
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