Editing Sexual slavery (section)

====East and Southeast Asia====
{{See also|Sexual slavery in China}}
In Thailand, the Health System Research Institute reported in 2005 that children in prostitution make up 40% of Thailand's prostitutes.<ref name="unicri.it"/> It said that a proportion of prostitutes over the age of 18, including foreign nationals mostly from [[Myanmar]], China's [[Yunnan]] province, [[Laos]] and Cambodia, are also in some state of forced sexual servitude.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unicri.it/wwd/trafficking/minors/countries.php |title=UNICRI Trafficking in Minors, Report on Thailand 2005 |access-date=2005-06-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051024072431/http://www.unicri.it/wwd/trafficking/minors/countries.php |archive-date=24 October 2005 }}</ref> In 1996, the police in Bangkok estimated that there were at least 5,000 Russian prostitutes working in Thailand, many of whom had arrived through networks controlled by Russian gangs.<ref>
{{cite web|url=http://www.asiapacificms.com/articles/russian_mafia/|title=The Russian Mafia in Asia - Asia Pacific Media Service|publisher=Asiapacificms.com|author=Bertil Lintner|date=3 February 1996|access-date=2 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130912064633/http://www.asiapacificms.com/articles/russian_mafia/|archive-date=12 September 2013|url-status=live}}
</ref> The Tourism Police Bureau in 1997 stated that there were 500 Chinese and 200 European women in prostitution in Bangkok, many of whom entered Thailand illegally, often through Burma and Laos. Earlier reports, however, suggest different figures. (Police Colonel Sanit Meephan, deputy chief of Tourism Police Bureau, "Thailand popular haunt for foreign prostitutes", ''The Nation'', 15 January 1997)

Part of the challenge in quantifying and eliminating sexual slavery in Thailand and Asia generally is the high rate of police corruption in the region. There are documented cases where Thai and other area law enforcement officials worked with human traffickers, even to the extent of returning escaped child sex slaves to brothels.<ref name="My Name Lon">{{cite book|last1=Sharron|first1=Derek|title=My Name Lon - You Like Me?|date=2005|publisher=Bangkok Book House|location=Bangkok, Thailand|isbn=978-974-92721-5-2|pages=[https://archive.org/details/mynamelonyoulike00dere/page/61 61...62]|edition=3rd 2005|url=https://archive.org/details/mynamelonyoulike00dere/page/61}}</ref>

Ethnic [[Rohingya]] women are kidnapped by Myanmar military and used as sex slaves.<ref>
Dhaka Tribune Adil Sakhawat Published at 01:20 AM 13 January 2017 [http://www.dhakatribune.com/world/south-asia/2017/01/13/survivors-claim-myanmar-army-taking-away-young-rohingya-women-sex-slaves/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170810132432/http://www.dhakatribune.com/world/south-asia/2017/01/13/survivors-claim-myanmar-army-taking-away-young-rohingya-women-sex-slaves/|date=10 August 2017}}
</ref> Many Rohingya women were detained at a human trafficking syndicate transit camp in Padang Besar, Thailand, and treated like sex slaves.<ref>
NEWS MALAYSIA Rohingya women migrants used as sex slaves [http://womeninmigration.org/2015/06/rohingya-women-migrants-sexual-violence/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170810092132/http://womeninmigration.org/2015/06/rohingya-women-migrants-sexual-violence/|date=10 August 2017}}
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