In a small village consumed by poverty, a man in a suit and tie shows up. He goes from family to family offering to buy children for a year's wages. He enters a family with a young girl whose father sells her to feed his heroin addiction. Scared and confused, the girl is now forced to enter a brothel, where she sexually satisfies more than 20 men a day. Nearly five years later she is rescued only to lose her life to AIDS due to unprotected sex. Thailand's human trafficking industry has long been overlooked both internally and externally. Corruption, greed, foreign relations, economic pressure and overall demand have fueled the trafficking industry in Thailand. Until the world and the Thai government make serious changes to how they handle the situation in Thailand, victims of trafficking will continue to experience similar atrocities. During the Vietnam War, America had an agreement with Thailand that allowed them to establish a period of rest and relaxation. based there. The base and the soldiers stationed there caused the economy to thrive through tourism, but once the war was over, the United States no longer needed the base, so it left Thailand. The Thai economy needed a way to continue to support itself, so they began prostituting women in their country to once again create a desirable location for tourism. This prostitution business has gained worldwide attraction and the Thai economy has become sustained again. As time passed it became clear that trafficking women from nearby poor countries would be easier than using local women. Thailand began to establish itself as one of the largest prostitution industries and soon became known as “the brothel of Asia”. Trafficked women and children in Thailand live without... means of paper ......x slavery." NewsMax.com: US News Page - News Archives. April 21, 2001. Web. January 27, 2010. Northcutt, Casey “Education Can Prevent Human Trafficking.” .Perrin, Andrew. “Thai Families Collaborate in Child Sex Trade/Border Area Products Are Drugs and Daughters.” fight against child trafficking | World in progress | Deutsche Welle | 01.09.2007." Home | Deutsche Welle. Web. 28 January. 2010. .