Everlasting Pain and Sorrow
They came with a dream of a better life. But what they got was sexual abuse, sorrow and pain.
January 6, 2004
SUNARTI walks with difficulty on a pair of crutches. An invalid from injuries sustained after she was pushed from the sixth floor of an apartment in Singapore in February, the 20-year-old is on her way to her house at the end of the dirt road in Sumbergesing-Gedangan in the East Java town of Malang. Traces of stitches on her hands, neck and chin are silent witness to the suffering she went through working as a maid in a foreign land. "I
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