I felt very sad when I read the article with photographs on the front page of your May 17 edition. Thai police raided two places in Bangkok where there were 30 hilltribe and Burmese women being held as sex slaves.
Slavery still exists.
The lives of many women are still being ruined because of a selfish business where equality is changed into slavery. Equality is fair, sex can be fair, selling sex is hardly ever fair, slavery is never fair. Loi Tai Lang is over the border from Ban Pang Mapha in Mae Hong Son province. Smaller ceremonies were held in 12 other bases on the Thai-Burmese border. The series, broadcast last year on military-run television Channel 7, depicted the struggle and suffering of another ethnic Burmese insurgent group, presumably the Karen.