Nepali and Bangladeshi women sold into sexual slavery in Syria

2016-03-13 11:07:57

(MENAFN- Asia Times) Nepalese migrant worker Sunita Magar (L) who was trafficked to Syria sits with her mother (R) and father at their home in Dhadhing 100 km west of Kathmandu

Frequently beaten with a baton and given only one meal a day Magar says she spent 13 months working as a maid for a Syrian household and pleading to be allowed to go home.

“I was just in shock I couldn’t stop crying” the single mother-of-two said.

Magar is among scores of poor Nepali and Bangladeshi women who traveled to the Middle East on the promise of a good job only to be trafficked into Syria hit by five years of civil war.

Nepal’s top diplomat in the region said nationals from the Philippines Indonesia and other countries which like Nepal and Bangladesh have large migrant labor populations have stopped working in Syria because of the dangers involved.

“Since then traffickers have been targeting Nepalis” said Kaushal Kishor Ray head of Nepal’s diplomatic mission based in Cairo.

In nearby Bangladesh Shahinoor Begum lies in a Dhaka hospital bed recovering from her seven-month ordeal after being trafficked into Syria as a sex slave.

“I was sold to a Syrian man who tortured and raped me every day sometimes along with his friends” Begum also a single mother-of-two said.

“I begged for mercy but they didn’t have any. Instead they used to beat me so badly that I broke my arms” said. Read More

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