Some women stay at Arizona, servicing the cross border shoppers and local policemen at a dozen or so 'night clubs' that infest the market. The rest will be taken to cafes and brothels all over the country. There, the 'clients' will include Bosnian men, but, more significantly, they will also be forced to service the vast numbers of foreigners who make up the international peacekeeping and reconstruction forces. For the appalling truth is that the Bosnian slave markets are propped up and abused by the very people who are meant to be helping protect and rebuild the country. It is a shaming fact that in a country that saw the full horrors of civil war, some of the worst human rights violations are today being perpetrated by the international community.
Nobody knows exactly how many women have been trafficked into Bosnia.
At the beginning of June the estimate was 4,000-20,000 women. Brothels are endemic. Some brothels are like the ones in Arizona with names like 'Acapulco' and 'Romanca'. Others are simply roadside cafes where the owner keeps a couple of women for passing trade. Madeleine Rees is the head of office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Bosnia and the most senior UN figure fighting trafficking.