Contact Admin. The girls who brought her to hospital did not have the courage to request to the doctors as they all are sex workers. After a long time without being any treatment by the doctors of that hospital Doli regrettably accepted her death as her fate. This wicked incident was happened in kandapara under Tangail Upazilla brothel which is one of the acknowledged brothels among 12 brothels in Bangladesh. While visiting the Kandapara brothel, an ancient brothel of this country, this reporter found many problems persist there which is being started from the neighboring mainstream people and end up with the government negligence.
In their everyday life they face social stigma, harassment by customers, local people and police, inequity in enjoying basic rights as a citizen of this country. All the sex workers are being neglected despite of being as a human being. We are lack of standard living condition as the cost here is so high that we cannot afford the cost sometimes. They have to pay for everything like their house rent at a fixed rate. Such as Tk per day for house rent, Tk for electricity per month, Tk for television, Tk for satellite channel, Tk for DVD player, Tk 20 for shower per client and Tk 10 for toilet usage per client.
If anyone fails to pay that daily expenditure it is habitual for the shardarni madam to lock up her in her room or endure sometimes physical and verbal torture. Is it not exploitation? All think about us that we are impure. But the interesting affair is the people who hate us living in the society come to us at night for doing physical relation.
This is your mainstream society. However, Munni later says that they prefer to be recognized as sex worker rather than prostitute. Munni later informed this reporter that Babli comes in this brothel 4 years ago.
Someone named Aziz took her from her village from Khulna for giving her a job in garment but that man sold her to a Sardarni Madam for only Tk The situation of Babli is a common picture of many others girls in the brothel. Login Signup. Signup Login Contact Admin.
