l think what's even more unfortunate and very sad, is the fact that Africans are involved in doing this to their own.Greed is a very dangerous thing. Oh Africa, what money will not make some of us subject our own people to. Jabou In a message dated 12/2/99 9:17:48 AM Central Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: << You know, this reminds me of something I saw on a TV show called Investigative Reports, which comes on A and E here in the US. This same sort of thing was going on in Thailand. They would recruit young girls from the country and send them to Bangkok, and the same sort of promises were made to them as were made in the article posted here. It is very unfortunate and upsetting to me to read this. This should be stopped, but since it seems tohave gotten so far out of control, the question is how does it stop, and can it even be stopped since it seems that the people involved know the system really well. Is there a way that something can be put into place by the Dutch government to watch out ofr this sort of thing. Something to stop these girls from being sold into prostitution before it happens? It just seems to me like it would be very difficult to curtail something like this since it has seemed to have gone so far out of control. Ginny ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------