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7 Asian L. J. 103 (2000)
The Conscription of Asian Sex Slaves: Causes and Effects of U.S. Military Sex Colonialism in Thailand and the Call to Expand U.S. Asylum Law

handle is hein.journals/aslj7 and id is 107 raw text is: The Conscription of Asian Sex Slaves: Causes and Effects of U.S. Military Sex Colonialism in Thailand and the Call to Expand U.S. Asylum Law Elizabeth Rho-Ngt I'm an infantryman. That's what I'm paid to do, that's what my country expects me to do... The only reason we're here is to deter the communist aggression... We're needed over here... Ifyou look at it, the fact is we spent so much money comin' down here... Their weapons are ours. Their equipment is ours, their vehicles, their chains... Everything is ours. Hey Joe, try taking a little excursion You'll feel goodfrom a little perversion Massage requiring total immersion Some strange positions they say are Persian.2 She grew up on afarm northeast of Chiang Mai. When she was 16, an American came to the farm and told her parents he wanted her for his wife. He paid his gift of money and took her to an army base. She thought the marriage was forever. But after her daughter was born, the husband was transferred back to the United States, andjust before he left, he gave her to his buddy. Then there was another and another. Now there are no more Americans to marry and she lives in the Village of Night Girls. 3 © 2000 Asian Law Journal, Inc. J.D. 2000, Northeastern University School of Law (Boston, MA); B.A. 1993, University of Texas at Austin. Currently a research attorney with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. I would like to dedicate this Comment to my parents and my husband, Hawlan Ng, for their continued love and support over the years. I also sincerely appreciate Professor Hope Lewis of Northeastem University School of Law for her inspiration, encouragement and her dedication to the area of international women's rights. This Comment was originally prepared for her course on Gender and International Human Rights. 1. Saundra Pollock Sturdevant & Brenda Stoltzfus, Disparate Threads of the Whole: An Interpretive Essay, in LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL: PROSTITUTION AND THE U.S. MILITARY IN ASIA 324, PINCITE (1992) (depicting a U.S. serviceman speaking about being stationed in the southern part of South Korea). 2. RYAN BISHOP & LILLIAN S. ROBINSON, NIGHTMARKET: SEXUAL CULTURES AND THAI ECONOMIC MIRACLE 149, PINCITE (1998) (quoting Miss Saigon, Alain Boubil & Claude-Michel Schonberg, prods.). 3. KATHLEEN BARRY, THE PROSTITUTION OF SEXUALITY 143, PINCITE (1995) (quoting from Tom Weber, The Village of Night Girls in Thailand, S.F. CHRoN., Apr. 20, 1976).

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