IN early May 2010, police arrested two housemaids in a “compromising position,” with the neighbor’s worker. Just recently, security operatives from Jahra raided various dens of prostitution within the governorate, and arrested 17 male and female Asians, following a tip-off the head of Jahra Security Directorate, Brigadier Mohammed Tana, received about their activities” (Arab Times, June 17, 2010).
There are of course other examples of such immoral activities. The Ministry of Interior is apparently trying its best to fight such crimes. However, the important issue I would like to highlight here are some of the real causes of such flesh trade crimes, few discuss and fewer dare to expose.

One for example cannot only blame visa trading, the sponsorship system, or any typical justification in such cases. We need to look at the other side of the story.
Some of these female victims were kidnapped, locked in by another expat, not necessarily their compatriot. Their overseers force them into this flesh trade to satisfy their own greed fueled by their innate criminality.

Furthermore, the more criminal “customers” who share in such crimes usually utilize and use the plights of some illiterate, poor and already overworked housemaids.
Hunting such vulnerable victims and using them as flesh commodities are some of the most hateful violations we witness in Kuwait today.
In reported cases about forced prostitution, the criminals are usually a group of men who are not legal sponsors, but who are in their turn sponsored by others!
The other side of the story in the predicaments of those female victims is that the real circumstances of their exploitation does not seem to figure prominently in international human rights reports!

In addition to sometimes depicting an exaggerated picture about human rights in Kuwait, some subjective reporters in this regard tend to base their findings on sometimes perhaps unrealistic tips-off, generalizations and perhaps undocumented complaints.
As such, we call on such international organizations especially those that do not seem to apply high professional standards to review their earlier assessments. In fact, such human rights organizations should adopt more impartial and objective criticism toward the real conditions of human rights in Kuwait.
Our government has already established safe shelters for runaway housemaids and other vulnerable victims. Such shelters provide necessary protection for housemaids from falling to the exploitation of a criminal flesh trader... etc.
As an after thought, one needs to remember that no sponsor ever handed such victims to flesh traders!

Your view:
“I read with interest your article “Respecting, abiding by laws vital duty”... Your article extolled the ‘excellent actions of the good Kuwaiti citizen’ rightly, but it only told one side of the story. Perhaps you should ask yourself what brought this situation about” (J H).
khaledaljenfawi@yahoo.com