Sex Slaves

Sex Slaves

2005, Sexuality  -   124 Comments
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An undercover police unit and an international team of detectives join forces to uncover a well-established Thai-Uzbek sex trafficking ring. Their intention is to save thousands of women involuntarily kept as sex slaves.

These criminals earn millions of dollars a year selling women from Central Asia into Bangkok and Pattaya, Thailand. Steve Galster, a man who has risked his life for two decades fighting the most dangerous wildlife traffickers in the world, now uses those same hard earned skills to combat human trafficking in Thailand.

Sex tourism may be one of Thailand's most profitable industries, but for 'Operation Graceland' and the Thai government, this mission is do or die. Success will depend on whether or not the two are able to work together to bust the ring in order to supply the evidence necessary to win a case against the Thai and Uzbek traffickers.

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Betty
Betty
3 years ago

Katia, her mother complaining?? She is sixty taking care of her five-year-old child...??? Boohoo you immoral person. Not worried about her daughter? Just herself, no wonder your daughter is in this mess!

Bill Collier
Bill Collier
6 years ago

Woman in all societies need to have the courage to risk their lives and fight back.
The interesting reality is that us human beings are evolving from. Patriarchal societies to Matriarchal. This change is part of a cycle

john
john
6 years ago

Such a sad story. These people are pigs!

LKNANML
LKNANML
7 years ago

If this happened to my wife I would be in jail. 5 Years probation? OK.. He would be dead and I would walk into the nearest police station. Here's what happened. This is what I did. Show me to my cell.

Kevin
Kevin
9 years ago

I wish I could jump through my computer and pull a Liam from the movie Taken. Once they stand before the Lord, and have to account for themselves, they will spend eternity in hell.

Tornado Panavia
Tornado Panavia
9 years ago

Yeah, the sex slavery is VERY bad. Really. I hate that thing just as almost 99% of people here, I think, hates it. I'm also depart of very strict and fast actions against this b**tards. But, wait a minute, waaaait a minute canadians. You see a flea flying over Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and make documentaries, protests, announcements of international punishments, collects or whatever to say that all inside that countries is bad? So, with that premise I can say maybe China? Belarus maybe? I can say Vietnam and Kazakh also? Brazil? Venezuela? Cuba? haha You'll enter to ALL of that "ex soviet" or "commies" or "anti US" countries only to say that ALL inside is bad? Yeah, THIS is bad, THIS is a trash that must be stopped, but... the gang bullys inside your nearby US? and the weapon traffic mafias inside the US-Mexican border? and the "wall of Shame" made by G.Bush? and the wars in Irak and Afghanistan? and the atomic bombs that your US dropped in Japan? that must be forgotten? only think, people, not only the "Eastern side" countries have violence and awful sick people. Yes, is truth, but in the US all the guys aren't angels. There are also laws there that authorize the use of weapons to housewives and kids of 8yo!! that's good? If you wanna be a MODEL society, you really MUST be a model society. And yes, you must, It's more you HAVE to cooperate with Russia and Eastern countries to stop this sh*t, and kick the asses of that b**tard people traffic mafias, but MEN, let the EASTERNS have the work! and don't try to be the world police ok? It's 2014.

kfs- good
kfs- good
10 years ago

good for knowledge

Hister Zhou
Hister Zhou
11 years ago

just the tip of the iceberg, in thailand a lot of women are being "trafficked" to other countries too

Laith Hussein Smadi
Laith Hussein Smadi
11 years ago

well we all now that 99.9% of demand comes from middle-eastern Arabic to be more specific "emirates Saudi-Arabians Qatar Kuwait and Bahrain" and the we know that the market follows "supply and demand" so the only way to stop this disaster is to stop demand , we know the source of the demand , what else do we need !! nothing but some acts ...
i am Jordanian and i can tell you ... those people "gulf-arabian" must be put in a zoo ......

onechromosomeshortadoublehelex
onechromosomeshortadoublehelex
11 years ago

90% BS. Kill them all and let alah do the sorting. Sure their will be a few dead by mistake, So what is the point.

Jasper Tore
Jasper Tore
11 years ago

The film was good. I feel pity for those women who have been into prostitution. I hope that the government of each country involved should take necessary actions to clear this matter ASAP. When will they learn their lesson by the way? When this happen to them also.

Mavimarv
Mavimarv
11 years ago

it's f*cking immoral that there's women behind these crimes! men, women, they should all be ashamed of themselves....

James
James
11 years ago

this **** is so dam heart breaking i just want set up a sting and catch all the pimps and trafficersand give them all electrical testical shock reatment.

chopstix33
chopstix33
11 years ago

Please people this needs to STOP please open your eyes and make others aware of this not alot of people know how serious human trafficking is.. PLEASE OPEN YOUR EYES to find out ways you can contribute google "stop human trafficking" theres many ways you can contribute.. please help these innocent souls..

Rubinjane
Rubinjane
11 years ago

I think help should have been given to Tania's brother. I don't know many people who could of turned their backs on a sick child like the reporters did. Shame on them.

Rubinjane
Rubinjane
11 years ago

Very sad situation....:(

Hayley Funaki
Hayley Funaki
11 years ago

This is horrible - I'm so sad about this..

charlie pycraft
charlie pycraft
11 years ago

Very grim and unaccountable world

Ravi Jain
Ravi Jain
11 years ago

Amazing work by director and producer.

Gregory Olsen
Gregory Olsen
12 years ago

It's hard to believe that this can be a part of our "enlightened " world today. It tells me that mankind has not progressed one iota if this kind of trade exists. I can't even begin to imagine the horror that these girls have to endure - this was a very distressing documentary.

Eþref
Eþref
12 years ago

As a Turk,
I can say that this documentary somewhat tells the issue of woman trafficicking from the so-called post-Soviet transition countries to Turkey in a wrong way. Since the Communism abruptly faded away in the early 1990s, woman trafficking from the Eastern Europe into the southward undoubtedly became a social-economic phenomenon. Because Turkey and the Middle East were the only directions to where the post-Soviet residents could easily access without the visa obtackles. In this regard, those women were started to be deceived and sold easily in Turkey and some other Middle Eastern countries. However they were the Russian mafia men who sold these women. Of course market functions with the supply-demand principles and it would be some demand, too. Besides that, it was another reality that some women also from those countries voluntarily have choosen to come to Turkey, either to find a proper job or to become a prostitute in the Mediterrenean rivieras. But in this story, most women seem to be cheated by their Russian and/or Ukrainian tenants and sold to the trafickers in Turkey. Unfortunately all these women were sacrified to the fall of the Communist state appratus in which the omnipotent Soviet state has been providing all to its fellow citizens what they actually needed. Namely people in the post-Soviet space became joblessles, careless and vulnarable within one night. Needless to say, those women who were the most sacrified and suffered by men who either being Russian, Ukrainien or Turk or whoever nationality they come from. Namely men are same in everywhere and sexually exploit woman since the Antiquity. Last but not the least, one good thing I can say that the Turkish police eventually succeeded to control this woman trafficking in the recent years and the issue is losing its ground as a problem in Turkey...

Esref

Dmitriy Fedotov
Dmitriy Fedotov
12 years ago

Sad story. I feel ashamed for the injustioce in my country.

maria_something101
maria_something101
12 years ago

This is incredibly sad. The major reason for these women finding themselves involved in these conditions is poverty. We all need to donate atleast 20% of our accumulated wealth every year. It's so important.

We also need to focus on punishing the consumers instead of the businessmen. There are countless people like Appo, Maria, Vlad, and Ulga, and as you can see from the documentary, they have nothing to worry about, the police doesn't even take a serious action against them. However, those that do worry are the men that come to have sex with these women. These men should be sentenced to death. By ending the chain of consumers, there is no business. Thus no trafficking.

Angela Velazquez
Angela Velazquez
12 years ago

videos like this make me realize that my own rape at 11 and then subsequent sexual assault from my husband and his friends really wasn't that bad. i'm not making it up either for all the trolls out there and scream all you want, that i'm lying but i am serious and i have something to say.

What these women go through is horrible, what these pimps, or rather abusers, men and women alike, do to them is ABHORRENT. it has nothing to do with religion. Goddess, God, Jesus, Allah, Buddha, Krishna, Brahma, satan, Odin, nature spirits, Cthulhu, WHATEVER you believe in, it does not matter, AT ALL. What these women go through is WRONG. These men are killing these women souls with their abuse.

I have been pushed into sex acts i didn't want to do, sometimes through physical force, sometimes because i had given up hope, and I hated every second of it. it ripped my psyche apart, I am still trying to heal from the wounds. i am 26, when i was in my late teens early twenties my husband made me do things i will hopefully be able to get over with therapy. I was also raped at the age of 11 by a family friend. A lot of my close friends have been raped or sexually assaulted in some way, and this is in America.

The sexual abuse of women has to stop. All over the world. in every country. on every continent, every city town village, EVERYWHERE.

SEXUAL ABUSE MUST END.

Kendra Taylor
Kendra Taylor
12 years ago

Most depressing video I have ever seen. RIP little brother. Is there a fund that we can do for the young woman's family?

Hooverbest
Hooverbest
12 years ago

Damn these mother f***ing a**holes selling good-looking women with no shame... I reckon someone should just nuke these good-for-nothing human trash !!! To upheld the law in place, at least death-penalties should be given without exception. Destroying people's lives with no regards to their rights and feelings is no different than murdering someone. I reckon a good country is defined by the absence of these shameless f****** human trash and a legal system that can actually uphold whats written in the law.

There won't be anymore human trafficking if death penalties can be carried out for WHOEVER involved under no exceptions. [To the perpetrators involved in human traffickings: So... you like to scr*w with people's lives & bodies huh? How about we scr*w a few f****** bullets in your f****** holes for once? You can f*** youselves in hell !!!]

magla
magla
12 years ago

This is the saddest thing. It's nothing to do with religion. Unfortunately, all around the world from different religions these heinous crimes are occurring as we speak. Seeing my own city in this shocking documentary just doubled my hatred to those individuals who are capable of these grisly acts and have no compassion what so ever.
On the other hand, showing Istanbul like a fanatic Muslim area is wrong too. They specially show women with turban and men with long beard just like typical Islamic person. In this country, women ( i am one of them) are free and it's illegal to marry more than one wife.Sadly, we have fundamentalist and fanatic people like Europe and America.
Prostitution can be stopped by goverments. They should join forces and do something about it. However, like drug trafficking money is the key word in my point of view.

Nick
Nick
12 years ago

T^T Good job getting your wife back!!! I almost couldn't finish the doc gave me so much anxiety.

ranii02
ranii02
12 years ago

the one question i have for the production team was that.. if the debt that the women owed in loans was a couple of $100s then why couldn't they help out? that would of helped out the poor women you're already taking advantage of for her story. selfish people

ranii02
ranii02
12 years ago

the one question i have for the production team was that.. if the debt that the women owed in loans was a couple of $100s then why couldn't they help out? that would of helped out the poor women you're already taking advantage of for her story. selfish people

ranii02
ranii02
12 years ago

the one question i have for the production team was that.. if the debt that the women owed in loans was a couple of $100s then why couldn't they help out? that would of helped out the poor women you're already taking advantage of for her story. selfish people

marie sofianos
marie sofianos
12 years ago

Hey let's tell the truth here if the f***ing police do their jobs right they can stop all of this from taking place but as always they choose to turn the other way .....police and the judges are the people to blame more ....lets see if the gave that guy 20 years in jail see how he would of liked it and being rape in jail and a few more that they just let go free..... i felt so sorry for that poor girls mother that did go to the police for help and they told what she knew what she was going there for ...... in my books that officer should not even be working as a police officer ......the government should be cleaning all this mess up as they play a big part in it taking places in all the countries in the world ...............

Jack Seahorse
Jack Seahorse
12 years ago

Let'S kILL EM ALL!!!

Ashley Johnson
Ashley Johnson
13 years ago

Though there are so many documentaries about Human Trafficking, what is actually being done to solve this? And when I do hear of Human Trafficking it comes as a shock, but is later forgotten. It's a horrible thing that people are left unknowing about this global issue. Most countries are viewed as being above slavery and sexual exploitation, yet that isn't true. As for those who work for the police, government, or just have lots of power and take a part in Human Trafficking, may God have mercy on your souls, because I certainly am not capable or willing to forgive you. And as for those of you who are leaving comments disrespecting religions and giving excuses that men have 'primitive yearnings' and that's why they are adulturous: That is just crap. Grow up and get your head out of your asses. Human Trafficking isn't only done by men, but by women too. The poor women who get caught up and tricked into this don't initially trust men, but when a woman comes up to them and pretends to sympathize with them, then that's when they are truly tricked. And just so you know, women aren't in as high demand as children are in this 'business'. Human Trafficking is happening all over the world, not just in Europe, Asia, or the Middle East. It's all for money and as long as people are f*cked up in the head and have these disgusting desires, then this will continue to be a crime.

Last thought: Maybe if the producers of this documentary had created an ad so that kind people could send money to the victims of Human Trafficking, then Tania's brother could have been saved and the authors of the documentary wouldn't have gone against their 'work ethics'. Also, there is a HUGE difference between animal documentaries and human ones. Animals are not capable of being able to think up a thing such as trafficking, so the fact that the creaters of this documentary didn't give Tania the few hundred dollars she needed to help her FAMILY -not herself- just blows my mind. You are not a doctor, ethics for journalism are not the same as medical ones so you can be a tadbit more lenient instead of being heartless.

Gary
Gary
13 years ago

Nevermind, I just read his OTHER post. Ignore my first comment.

Gary
Gary
13 years ago

@CK
Human trafficking is a terrible thing, but theres no need to start cursing, and insulting someone. All he said, was that there's much worse things going on in the world, and that you could donate if you want to help out.

ck
ck
13 years ago

@ Ike You’re mother ******, pig, rot in you hell desire and take it with youy to your miserable grave

one
one
13 years ago

Lunarbong, this is the price for your appetite, just like of those involved, this is the price for your perversity and sadism, this is the price for explotation and humilation, which you will never recognize and rot in denial and self-deceit. Pathetic being. How you can compehend such things; you used to think from your ego snd often with your small head rather than the big one. You bear your responsibility for human suffering but you will dwarfishly deny it till the end of your pathetic life and take it all with you in your grave.

charlie
charlie
13 years ago

All men are equal,the problem is some think they can manipiulate others who are less fortunate to look after themselvs, however the ones in power lett them and close an aye, so that they themselvs will get some benefits.( GREED IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVEL )THE LORD will deal with them,wath ever thier religion!!!!!!!!! is, if they have one!!!!.

Forever muslim
Forever muslim
13 years ago

Personal note:

Stop using religion as an excuse for not solving the real problems in the society. Dont forget that this is a world spread multi billion dollar business. It is done for the money in it. Stop arresting prostitutes and arrest their buyers. This business will end automatically. The tendency of enslavement exits in the human race at the whole. Its not just about the middle east or Unites States. Enslavement exits in any part of the world where there is poverty.

So stop putting it on others to keep your hands clean and get your ass out there to solve the real problem. This message goes to all the commentators in this page who have unnecessarily added religion and diverted the minds of the readers to a completely different topic.

Forever muslim
Forever muslim
13 years ago

Hey Ex-muslim

I just wanted to clarify some mis conceptions you have about female trafficking. In Islam, a man is allowed to marry 4 wives in his whole life time. He just cant marry four at a time and then divorce them and marry four others. Islam is also the first religion in the world who banned slavery at a time when slavery was the only business women and poor men could hold. Let it be any sort of slavery. Not even a bird is allowed to be in a cage in Islam because it is treated as slavery. 'Thats what Allah commands us to say in the Quran'.

Secondly, I would like to tell you something which you dont usually get to read in books. The tendency of hurting someone is one of the prime characters in a human with which he & she is born. Ever since the beginning of the human race, slavery has existed. Which itself proves that wherever there is poor, there is oppression and wherever there is oppression, there is slavery. And religion, not just Islam but any religion has always condemned it. There has been a war going on between oppression and religion ever since the world has begun. And its up to you to choose a side. If you dont agree with Islam, then you dont agree with religion. If you dont agree with religion, you are taking the side of slavery.
Please consider myself your well wisher. May whoever God it is you worship help you get to the right path. Peace be on you.

danny
danny
13 years ago

and to those who made this documentary, the problem is not new, but your presentation is . . . just make it better next time. good work. thanks

danny
danny
13 years ago

to those who really want to want to help, forget your comment, just help!

danny
danny
13 years ago

the government intitutions of this country is wrapped in corruption culture just like mine. but we do not stop in finding way to deal with this kind of crime. my simpathy to the husband. remain loving your wife. she is a victim.

danny
danny
13 years ago

my country has the same problem like that,but viewing the episode, i think the producer strethed the oportunity to finished the documentary coldy, without considering the condition of the subjects. they merely poked their cameras with a voice-over like a field reporter.

Ike
Ike
13 years ago

@Inga
You can still financially help tens of thousands of people if you want to.....its called charity.
There are cases much worse than this in the world:

Odessa
Odessa
13 years ago

I never knew this happened in Odessa! My name is Odessa, and I feel so sad for theses women.

Inga
Inga
13 years ago

Sarah, I wondered why too, i would have sent her money with out a thougth. I wish i knew about this when it happened :(.This world is so evil

Ike
Ike
13 years ago

I am pissed with people blaming the journalists for not giving money to Tania.......well if they did, that wouldn't be ethical in journalism terms.
For example, why don't the crew of Animal Planet / National Geographic distract the cute innocent animals (deers,etc whatever get hunted by predators such as lions or tigers or cheetahs)to save them from death while they are being stalked. It would disrupt the ecosystem.
Similarly, the journalists cannot pay or 'help' / change a scenario because the story they want to portray to the rest of the world would get biased. They are compelled to not interfere in any situation except film or investigate allowing destiny / fate to take its due course.
IF YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYIN!!

Sarah
Sarah
13 years ago

Why couldn't the journalists give Tania money to treat her Brother and Sister? They are too busy driving their posh cars, tapping their iPhones and living on posh suburbs to care. What a bunch of selfish f*cktards. I live on social security and would happily donate some of my money to Tania if I could.