Sex Slavery, A Human Tragedy Lurking All Around You
This very serious report details the act of sexual slavery, a travesty that still befalls up to 800,000 women a year. Sex slavery knows no boundaries and its actions infest every country, even America. If you want to know more about sexual slavery and join up with a great new organization fighting to stop it, please visit Project Exodus.
Sitting captive in a brothel bedroom in Velesta, Macedonia, a woman by the name of Olga found the strength to tell her story to inquiring journalists, even at the risk of death.
Wincing from pain throughout the interview, the 19-year-old young woman had an infected puncture wound on her right breast. A man who raped her a few days before bit her during a vicious assault. Being an abducted victim in a sex operation, she had nowhere to turn for even basic treatment.
It`s reported that young women, much like Olga, have tried to escape from such sex prisons. They are usually hunted down, beaten, and repeatedly raped in order to teach a lesson. Following such beatings, these women are subject to years stuck in a vicious trade cycle that can span anywhere on the globe, including every G8 nation.
When questioned about her sad predicament, faced by many others, all Olga could say is ” “there is only one word for this,`”…” “Slavery.`”
Abducted
Olga`s story begins like many of the other 500,000 to 800,000 young women who are forced into sexual markets, worldwide, each year. A young woman growing up in rural Moldova, Olga wanted to explore Western Europe to escape a depressing family life.
She never had the opportunity.
One day, outside of her school, she was abducted and eventually thrown into the trunk of a car. When taken out of the trunk, she discovered that she “along with several other women- were surrounded by a group of “body guards”. As easily as they abducted her, these men took her across great stretches in order to reach the destination of Macedonia. Here, as she found on her first night of arrival, her life was to take a turn for the worst.
Upon her arrival this young woman was severely beaten, forced to lick a filthy toilet clean with her tongue, and repeatedly raped in order to “break her in”.
“`Meti made me clean the toilet with my tongue. It was horrible and dirty. I think they did it because I was the newest girl,` ” Olga said of her ethnic Albanian owner. `He made me lick another girl`s ” you know, down there. And then he laughed.`”
For a year after her initial abduction, to the time she did this interview with a team of intrepid reporters, she has been raped at least 10 times every day.
It`s Everywhere
Perhaps the most shocking detail of sexual trafficking is how far it reaches across the globe. Women such as Olga are shipped out of areas when they bore ” the local clienteles. Typically, this entails complex transactions and transfer of ownership across international borders. The prevalence of these crimes makes sexual trafficking a multi-billion dollar black market.
Sadly, traffic commonly spans from Eastern Europe and Asia and flows into Italy, France, Germany, Britain, Canada, and the United States. It is a crime that knows no shame and apparently, no boundaries. Why isn`t more being done to address this issue?
When I decided to do an article on this subject, I didn`t expect the numerous detailed accounts of many young women who have come forward, some at the risk of death, to talk about the horrors faced in their lives. Many of them innocently sought a better life or a chance to travel, only to fall victim in a well-woven trap.
There are so many harrowing stories to share that one editorial is not sufficient in fully exploring or analyzing this issue. Below a video is linked from PBS Frontline, who did an excellent video documentary on the subject. On the particular excerpt, they follow and bust a woman who helps imprison and deliver other women into this market. It is definitely worth a watch.
What Else Can I Do?
Information. An informed and concerned public is one of the best weapons in combating any type of societal exploitation. There are organizations that are specialized in combating trafficking worldwide as well as pressuring law agencies to attempt to track missing women. Clearly, these organizations need more help from resources that we may have to offer..
Please feel free to look into these organizations, linked below, to find out ways you can help.
There is also an excellent documentary entitled Sex Slaves, a clip of which is also available below. A trust fund has been set-up by the films producers in order to assist some of the trapped young women, featured in the documentary, secure their freedom. If this is something you would like to look into, please contact the films producer at victimsoftrafficking@apltd.ca.
Sex trafficking is a horrible reality that is taking place all around, throughout the globe. Make sure to talk about this issue with friends to raise awareness.
Anti-Trafficking Groups
http://www.google.com/Top/Society/People/Women/Women`s_Rights/Anti_Trafficking/
PBS Frontline: Sex Slaves Documentary
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/slaves/
MSBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3071965/
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Author: Mike Watson
Intrepid, bold and dashing, Mike Watson's investigative reporting prowess is only outdone by his burning desire to restore conservative values and morality to America. With a unique penchant for purity, Mike Watson's TV, Radio and writing inspire millions to know the truth behind American culture. Also on Facebook
12:56 am
Mike,
This is really a thoughtful piece. You must have investigated for months on this. I don’t know where you get the time with all you do.
Slavery is a very important issue for a vulnerable an economically disadvantaged portion of the population. We need to endorse and promote marriage as the ladder out of poverty rather than attending schools where a young woman might be abducted and put on a prostitution chain gang line.
Praise to you and this article!
BB
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1:10 am
Finally, an article with some real world value
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1:13 am
I look forward to reading the despicable negative comments from , claire, LN, shannon and Alison about this wonderful thought provoking story.
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1:19 am
And why, you idiot, would anyone say anything bad about this? Human trafficking is a horrendous crime and you’re trying to spend time bitching about the attitudes of people who disagree with you? Why? Sick and tired of being proven wrong? Sick and tired of being an idiot? Sick and tired of facing the truth? You’re nothing more than an insult to humanity as a whole.
Dear god I fucking hate you right now.
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2:47 am
You sure seem to be enslaved with the gutter mouth. Expecting others to immediately agree with your trash talk is just silly.
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3:22 am
Expecting others to take you seriously when you suggest that all other women keep their mouths shut while you lord over everyone is beyond ludicrous, and when a Scientologist invades you just throw your hands up and say ‘it’s Christian’, you prove your own ignorance.
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9:29 am
I did not know you were a Scientologist. Do you know Tom Cruise?
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5:19 am
You disagree with everything else on here, why not disagree with this to prove that nothing you say can be taken seriously as you will say anything,deny anything to disagree with christians.
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3:50 pm
Because I actually care about people, unlike you who will use the faults of others as some kind of platform to show off. You’re nothing more than a spiteful bastard who insists on just starting shit simply because you have no life.
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5:06 pm
Madame,
Please.
No one deserves that sort of talk. And you should love God.
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8:23 am
This is what happens when people lack Christian moral values. I believe that Atheists and Muslims are behind this terrible crimes.
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2:02 pm
Nobody with some heart and/or straight moral would let this happen, be it Christian, Atheist, Catholic or Muslim. The same way there are Christian sects around the world that practise infibulations/ablations on young girls, there are also groups that aren’t neccesarily Christian that fight against this kind of violation towards the basic rights of all the human beings.
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11:57 pm
If Muslims are against this, why does your Quran support sex slavery ?
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12:18 am
What passage are you talking about?
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5:23 am
“Qur’an (23:5-6) – “..who abstain from sex, except with those joined to them in the marriage bond, or (the captives) whom their right hands possess…” This verse allows the slave-owner to have sex with his slaves. See also Qur’an (70:29-30).”
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Quran/015-slavery.htm
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3:52 pm
Christians believed that black people weren’t human and thus more than eligible to work for them for no pay. Who’s to say it’s not a resurgence of idiots like you?
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3:54 pm
agreed!
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7:13 pm
Not real smart Christians, then.
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10:37 pm
atheists are NOT behind this. We think it is absolutely disgusting and despicable. But the problem is the you fundie’s dont really care about the women who are actually raped, do you? All you care about is that it makes you people seem like the “god” that u worship
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10:17 am
Why should a man who views women as inferior care about sex trafficking?
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2:38 pm
Why indeed?
Becuase Christians do not pay for sexual congress.
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11:26 pm
But the bible say it’s ok? (Exodus 21:7-11 NLT) or is there a new one that just came out in the last few’s years?
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3:11 pm
Nothing huh thought you’d have no answer for it.
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