Where are the eyes and arms of the law?

Jul 04, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
Human Trafficking of women and children and stories that unfold of human sufferings, ask the big question of how the birth of this heinous crime came into being.
It’s the insatiable lust for money that has spawned a billion dollar business that has its tentacles embedded in countries across the globe.
The condemnation by world governing bodies and churches of this horrendous practice has unfortunately not turn the tide.
The dilemma is still very much alive, like a monster that refuses to die. Where or what is the solution?
It begins at home and has to end at home, whether it’s Sudan, Russia, India, Honduras or Guyana, for wolves are knocking at the door. Poverty, political instability war and economic crisis that destabilize the lives of people, leave them with a burning desire to get out for a better life and play into the hands of barons who trade in human.
Countries with population of millions, where people live in untold sufferings because of genocide, war lords, rebels and insecure borders taking care of this crime in human trafficking is easier said then done. Guyana is not a player in the international global network of human trafficking, because the business is conducted internally and is developing to become a part of this culture.
The natives of Amerindian tribes in Guyana’s interior are the victims. Young women and girls are used as sexual tools for unscrupulous businessmen and as sex toys for the rich and powerful.
Young men are recruited for jobs with promises of good wages and are forced into labour and used literally as slaves.
Young innocent girls who are basically uneducated and know little or nothing of the outside world are coerced or promised jobs as domestic servants, sales girls, baby sitters and visions of a good, better life, but instead they are forced into prostitution, to work in bars or as call girls and are held hostages in a nightmarish world that they know not how to leave, where they are stripped of their moral worth and values. The law implemented to stamp out this practice has been into effect, but how effective is it?
A small country of less than a million people from coast to coast and yet, Amerindian girls are working in bars and restaurants, some as young as 14. Where are the eyes and arms of the law?
How difficult is this problem to arrest?
The abuse and degradation as this human exploitation continues is not treated as a serious problem, not by law or society.
Amerindians are not lesser humans they have rights like every other race and citizen to be protected by the law and its enforcers. Social workers, educators and church leaders should play bigger roles in the interior locations to educate and harness the skills and knowledge of these people. It is a fact that young, native men and women venture out on their own to find jobs, but still end up in distressing situations. As such, a call centre in each region should be established where they can communicate to have their problems addressed.
Gold and diamonds in the interior are of great value, but of even greater value are the native people of this land. The purity and innocence of these girls are tainted by those who only desire riches and selfish pleasure.
The system to deal with this problem has not been implemented as it should have and it continues to hurt the Pocahontas of this country.
Maureen Singh

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