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Tehnowar.ru has published a very interesting translation of an article by a Canadian researcher from Montreal about white slaves in the American colonies. Original - on . Full text: "John Martin. (translation from English: Tatyana Budantseva)

FORGOTTEN WHITE SLAVES

They arrived as slaves: human cargo carried on British ships to the shores of the Americas. They were loaded in hundreds of thousands - men, women and even small children.

If they rebelled or disobeyed orders, they were punished in the most cruel way. The master could hang his delinquent slave by the arms and set his arms or legs on fire as punishment. Some were burned alive, and their heads, put on stakes, were exhibited in the marketplace as a lesson to other slaves.

We don't need to go into all the horrifying details, do we? We are well aware of all the horrors of the African slave trade.

But are we talking about African slaves? Kings James VI and Charles I also made great efforts to enslave the Irish. The British Oliver Cromwell continued this practice of dehumanizing immediate neighbors.

The Irish slave trade began when James VI sold 30,000 Irish prisoners as slaves to the New World. His Proclamation of 1625 required political prisoners to be sent across the seas and sold there to English settlers in the West Indies.

In the mid-1600s, the Irish made up the bulk of the slaves sold to Antigua and Monsterrat. By that time, 70% of the total population of Monsterrat were Irish slaves.

Very quickly, Ireland became the main source of human goods for English merchants. The first slaves of the New World were mostly white.

From 1641 to 1652 over 500,000 Irish were killed by the British, and another 300,000 were sold into slavery. The Irish population decreased from 1,500,000 to 600,000 in one decade.

Families broke up because the British did not allow fathers of families to take their children and wives with them on a trip across the Atlantic Ocean. This has led to the emergence of a whole population of vulnerable homeless women and children. The British decision was also to sell them under the hammer.

"Scientific" racism From Harper's Weekly, 1899:
"The Iberians are of African origin, spread over thousands of years through Spain through Western Europe. Their remains are found in mounds, or burial places, at various points in these lands. The skulls are of a low type. They came to Ireland and mingled with the locals South and West, who in their turn presumably belong to a lower type of origin, being the descendants of the savages of the Stone Age, who, due to their isolation from the outside world, could not develop in a healthy struggle for life, and therefore gave way, according to the laws of nature, higher races."

During the 1650s, over 100,000 Irish children between the ages of 10 and 14 were separated from their parents and sold into slavery in the West Indies, Virginia and New England. In this decade, 52,000 Irish (mostly women and children) were trafficked to Barbados and Virginia.

Another 30,000 Irish men and women were also taken out and sold to the highest bidders. In 1656, 2,000 Irish children were taken to Jamaica by order of Cromwell and sold there as slaves to English settlers.

Many avoid calling Irish slaves what they really were: slaves. Terms like "contract worker" are suggested to describe what happened to the Irish. In fact, in the 17th and 18th centuries, Irish slaves were, in most cases, nothing more than a human commodity.

For example, the African slave trade was just beginning during the same time period. By numerous documented accounts, African slaves, unstained by adherence to the hated Catholic doctrine, were often treated better than their Irish fellow sufferers.

African slaves were highly valued (£50) in the late 1600s. Irish slaves were much cheaper (no more than £5). If a planter branded or beat an Irish slave to death, it was not a crime. The death was a financial loss, but much less than the murder of a more expensive African.

English slave-owners very quickly took up breeding Irish women, both for their own pleasure and for greater profit. The children of slaves were also slaves, which increased the free labor of the owner.

Even if an Irish woman somehow managed to gain freedom, her children remained slaves to their master. Thus, Irish mothers, despite their newfound freedom, often could not leave their children and remained in the service.

Over time, the British found a better way to use these women to improve their own market position: the settlers began to cross Irish women and girls (in some cases no older than 12) with African men to breed slaves with a certain appearance. The new "mulatto" slaves brought more profit than the Irish, moreover, they saved the settlers money that would be required to acquire new African slaves.

The practice of crossing Irish women and African men continued for several decades and became so widespread that in 1681 a law was passed "forbidding the mating of Irish women and African men for the purpose of producing slaves for sale." In short, this ban was put in place solely because it hurt the profits of one big slave shipping company.

England continued to transport tens of thousands of enslaved Irish for over a century. According to evidence, after the Irish rebellion in 1798, thousands of captured Irish were sold both to America and Australia.

There is no doubt that the Irish experienced the horrors of slavery as much (if not more during the 17th century) than the Africans. It is also certain that swarthy natives you meet on your travels in the West Indies are likely to have both Irish and African ancestry.

In 1839 Britain finally decided to leave this satanic path and cut off the supply of slaves. And although this decision did not affect the activities of the pirates, the new law began to gradually bring the story of the suffering of the Irish to an end.

However, if anyone, black or white, believes that slavery was the lot of exclusively Africans, they are deeply mistaken. Irish slavery must not be erased from our memory.

But why then is this topic so rarely discussed? Are the memories of hundreds of thousands of Irish victims not worthy of more than the mention of some unknown writer?

Or should their history be what their masters so wished for - complete disappearance, as if this never happened?

None of the affected Irish were able to return to their native shores to talk about their suffering. These are the missing slaves, those that have been successfully forgotten by time and cleaned up history books.

Mikhail Delyagin noted: "This article is important not only for explaining the feelings that many Irish people still have for the British, but also for understanding the social technologies used by the Anglo-Saxon civilization. Its representatives have long understood that the wholesale extermination of the victims of their crimes will allow avoid publicity and provide them with complete impunity. This is especially important for modern Russia - for understanding the prospects that are prepared for us by the owners of the liberal clan that controls us and, in general, the class of offshore aristocracy."

The "No dogs, no Irish" signs, as noted in the comments, completely disappeared from English pubs already in the 90s.

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The period from 1688 to 1700 is completely wiped out of English history - BLACK HOLE! Weird? Let's figure it out.

SILENCE about the occupation of England by the Dutch Jews and the establishment of a dynasty of Dutch Jewish kings on the English throne with the simultaneous genocide of the Scots and Irish!

Today it is necessary to refresh for the current generation of iverologists some information on BRIT-ania,

Ireland will punish Brussels with shock EU exit, says Dublin think tank

In the UK in general, Watson, a catastrophe is brewing! Soon it won't be! Not only has the UK already voted to leave the EU and should be leaving; but this is still a controversial issue, because the forces that do not want Brexit and who do not care about referendums are very strong!

But Ireland will definitely come out, and the most fucked up thing is that Scotland will definitely leave the UK! This was told to Holmes by a Scottish professor from Edinburgh, who said that this is now the main main process in Scotland.

You see, Watson, this is an unforgivable national resentment of the Scots against the British, and this resentment is 300 years old - at the turn of the 1600-1700s! Then, in order to subjugate Scotland, and Scotland before that was not part of England and there was no Great Britain, and Scotland had its own national flag in the form of a blue oblique CROSS on a white background and was, as they say now, "independent and independent":
, then when Scotland was gone, the British gave this flag to Peter-1, and he adapted it for the Russian fleet!

In order to colonize Scotland, and the Scots were freedom-loving highlanders, highland people! England throughout history before this could not colonize Scotland! And then those who rule the country, that is, high-level Jews, invited Dutch troops to England.

The laugh of that situation was that the British and the Dutch fought to the death among themselves in the recently discovered America - the New World, but in order to strangle the Scots, the English and Dutch Jews came to a consensus and Holland at the turn of the 1600-1700s sent troops to England; of course, with the consent of the English Iberian traitors such as the Duke of MARLBORO, whose fame has been going on since that time.

And the Dutch Jews, and Holland, it also has a purely Jewish name - Holland - this is HOLILAND - that is, in Dutch, the purely Jewish concept of "THE PROMISED LAND" - "HOLY LAND"!

Holmes will remind you that when the Spanish Queen Isabella expelled her Hasidim, she made a fatal mistake, then the seat of Evreonal moved to Holland, and the Jewish Clone began to explore the newly discovered America not from Spain, as at first, but from Holland!

Thus, from that moment on, the fate of the huge Spanish empire was sealed, and the tiny country of Holland-Holylandia began to rapidly gain strength and the first country that the Jewish Dutch occupied under the wise leadership of the almighty Jewreonal was England.

In England, jewoklons first cut off the king's head, then killed the entire Stuart dynasty, and a new dynasty of jewkings was brought to England from Holland in the person of William of Orange!

Therefore, the coup d'etat carried out in other countries under the leadership of Evreonal began to be called "orange", because Evreonal always put his own kind of "William of Orange"!

So the Dutch invaders "Orangists" under the leadership of William of Orange, of course, with the addition of local English "Jewish Bolsheviks" - completely genocidated Scotland! From that time, from the beginning of the 18th century, not the same Scots who lived before that lived in Scotland. But the national resentment against the British remained. And now the Scots are preparing forces to finally free themselves from the English yoke!
That's what the professor from Edinburgh told Holmes!

In general, this situation with the intervention of the Dutch Jews in England and with the extermination of the native Scots is very reminiscent of the revolution and the 1917 Intervention in Russia! And just like in Russia, the bloodiest events that lasted for many years and were accompanied by the extermination of tens of millions of Russians were nicely called the "Great Proletarian Revolution", well, that is, Watson, there is almost something to be proud of!

So it is in England, this is the intervention of the Jewish Dutch in England and the extermination of the Scots, and not only the Scots but also the Irish! Was named by nosy English ISTORICS

Whereas in fact it was the Intervention and occupation by the Dutch troops in an internal collusion with the English Iberians and the genocide of the Scots and Irish!

And very revealing, Watson, Holmes will tell you a curious detail. This wiki article is the only one you can find on this topic. No historians, including English themselves, study or write at all on the topic of this "GLORIOS REVOLUTION". Nobody even touches her!

Here are all the histories of England, multi-volume, Holmes even has a history of England by David Hume - a classic work of the 18th century! So, all English history courses are graduating from the GLORIOS REVOLUTION course! That is, one volume ends before 1688, that is, before the year of the Dutch Intervention, and the next volume begins already AFTER the Dutch Intervention, that is, from the beginning of the 18th century! But this period of "GLORIOS REVOLUTION" from 1688 to 1700 - it is completely released from English history - a black hole! Even David Hume's history of England does not concern him!

Holmes will also add, which is very interesting in this connection, that while the Dutch were then very "busy" exterminating the Scots, Irish and the previous ancestral English dynasty of kings and aristocracy and replacing it with their own!

Nevertheless, the Dutch Jews found money to finance the war of Peter 1 against the Swedish Empire, because the Swedish Empire was at that time the strongest rival of Holland. But the Dutch no longer had the strength to fight against the Swedish Empire! So they signed for this one very young king of one wild and previously unknown small kingdom lost at the eastern end of Europe.
That is why Peter-1 at that time in the late 1600s visited Holland and England, and it was they who built the fleet for him!

Zhydohollandtsy, then just captured England and made a new state of Great Britain under the new dynasty of their Dutch kings!

And guess what the first thing these "Dutch" did in New Britain? They returned to England the Jew-Hasidim, who had previously been thrown out of England in 1290, that is, 400 years before that, by King Edward II, here's a dem.

July 30 is World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. Unfortunately, in the modern world, the problems of slavery and human trafficking, as well as forced labor, are still relevant. Despite the opposition of international organizations, it is not possible to fully cope with human trafficking. Especially in the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America, where the local cultural and historical specificity, on the one hand, and the colossal level of social polarization, on the other hand, create fertile ground for the preservation of such a terrible phenomenon as the slave trade. In fact, slave trade networks in one way or another capture almost all countries of the world, while the latter are divided into countries that are mainly exporters of slaves, and countries where slaves are imported for their use in any areas of activity.

At least 175,000 people “disappear” every year from Russia and Eastern Europe alone. In total, at least 4 million people in the world become victims of slave traders every year, most of whom are citizens of underdeveloped Asian and African countries. Traders of "human goods" receive huge profits, amounting to many billions of dollars. On the illegal market, "live goods" are the third most profitable after drugs and. In developed countries, the bulk of the people who fell into slavery are women and girls illegally held in captivity, who were forced or persuaded into prostitution. However, a certain part of modern slaves is also made up of people who are forced to work for free at agricultural and construction sites, industrial enterprises, as well as in private households as domestic servants. A significant part of today's slaves, especially those from African and Asian countries, is forced to work for free within the "ethnic enclaves" of migrants that exist in many European cities. On the other hand, the scale of slavery and the slave trade is much more impressive in the countries of West and Central Africa, in India and Bangladesh, in Yemen, Bolivia and Brazil, on the islands of the Caribbean, in Indochina. Modern slavery is so large and diverse that it makes sense to talk about the main types of slavery in the modern world.

sexual bondage

The most massive and, perhaps, widely publicized phenomenon of trade in "living goods" is associated with the supply of women and girls, as well as underage boys, to the sex industry. Given the special interest that people have always experienced in the field of sexual relations, sexual slavery is widely covered in the world press. The police in most countries of the world are fighting against illegal brothels, periodically freeing people illegally held there and bringing to justice the organizers of a profitable business. In European countries, sexual slavery is on a very large scale and is associated primarily with forcing women, most often from economically unstable countries of Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa, into prostitution. So, only in Greece 13,000 - 14,000 sex slaves from the CIS countries, Albania and Nigeria work illegally. In Turkey, the number of prostitutes is about 300 thousand women and girls, and in total there are at least 2.5 million people in the world of "paid love priestesses". A very large part of them were turned into prostitutes by force and are forced to this occupation under the threat of physical violence. Women and girls are delivered to brothels in the Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, other European countries, the USA and Canada, Israel, Arab countries, and Turkey. For most European countries, the main sources of prostitutes are the republics of the former USSR, primarily Ukraine and Moldova, Romania, Hungary, Albania, as well as the countries of West and Central Africa - Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon. A large number of prostitutes arrive in the countries of the Arab world and Turkey, again, from the former republics of the CIS, but rather from the Central Asian region - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan. Women and girls are lured to European and Arab countries by offering vacancies as waitresses, dancers, animators, models and promising decent sums of money for performing simple duties. Despite the fact that in our age of information technology, many girls are already aware that many applicants for such vacancies are enslaved abroad, a significant part is sure that it is they who will be able to avoid this fate. There are also those who theoretically understand what they can expect abroad, but have no idea how cruel they can be treated in brothels, how inventive clients are in humiliating human dignity, sadistic bullying. Therefore, the influx of women and girls to Europe and the countries of the Middle East is not weakening.

Prostitutes in Bombay brothel

By the way, a large number of foreign prostitutes also work in the Russian Federation. It is prostitutes from other states who have their passports taken away and who are in the country illegally, most often are a real “human commodity”, since it is still harder to force the citizens of the country into prostitution. Among the main countries - suppliers of women and girls to Russia, one can name Ukraine, Moldova, and more recently also the republics of Central Asia - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan. In addition, prostitutes from far-abroad countries - primarily from China, Vietnam, Nigeria, Cameroon - are also transported to brothels in Russian cities that operate illegally, that is, they have an exotic appearance from the point of view of most Russian men and therefore are in certain demand. However, both in Russia and in European countries, the situation of illegal prostitutes is still much better than in the countries of the "third world". At least here the work of law enforcement agencies is more transparent and effective, the level of violence is lower. With such a phenomenon as trafficking in women and girls, they are trying to fight. The situation is much worse in the countries of the Arab East, in Africa, in Indochina. In Africa, the largest number of examples of sexual slavery is noted in the Congo, Niger, Mauritania, Sierra Leone, Liberia. Unlike European countries, there are practically no chances to free themselves from sexual captivity - in a few years, women and girls fall ill and die relatively quickly or lose their “presentation” and are thrown out of brothels, joining the ranks of beggars and beggars. The level of violence, criminal murders of women - slaves, which no one will look for anyway, is very high. In Indo-China, Thailand and Cambodia are becoming the center of attraction for sex trafficking. Here, given the influx of tourists from all over the world, the entertainment industry is widely developed, including sex tourism. The bulk of the girls supplied to the Thai sex entertainment industry are natives of the backward mountainous regions of the north and northeast of the country, as well as migrants from neighboring Laos and Myanmar, where the economic situation is even worse.

The countries of Indochina are one of the world's centers of sexual tourism, and not only female, but also child prostitution is widespread here. The resorts of Thailand and Cambodia are famous for this among American and European homosexuals. As for sexual slavery in Thailand, it is most often girls who are sold into slavery by their own parents. By doing this, they set the task of at least somehow alleviating the family budget and getting a very decent amount by local standards for the sale of a child. Despite the fact that, formally, the Thai police are fighting against the phenomenon of trafficking in human beings, in reality, given the poverty of the interior of the country, it is virtually impossible to defeat this phenomenon. On the other hand, the difficult financial situation forces many women and girls from South-East Asia and the Caribbean to engage in prostitution voluntarily. In this case, they are not sex slaves, although elements of coercion to work as a prostitute may also be present if this type of activity is chosen by a woman voluntarily, of her own free will.

In Afghanistan, a phenomenon called "bacha bazi" is widespread. It is a shameful practice of turning dancer boys into actual prostitutes catering to grown men. Pre-pubertal boys are kidnapped or bought from relatives, and then forced to perform as dancers at various celebrations, dressed in women's clothes. Such a boy should use women's cosmetics, wear women's clothes, please the man - the owner or his guests. According to researchers, the phenomenon of "bacha bazi" is common among residents of the southern and eastern provinces of Afghanistan, as well as among residents of some northern regions of the country, and among lovers of "bacha bazi" there are people of various nationalities of Afghanistan. By the way, no matter how you treat the Afghan Taliban, they treated the custom of “bacha bazi” sharply negatively, and when they took control of most of the territory of Afghanistan, they immediately banned the practice of “bacha bazi”. But after the Northern Alliance managed to get the better of the Taliban, the practice of "bacha bazi" was revived in many provinces - and not without the participation of high-ranking officials who themselves actively used the services of boy prostitutes. In fact, the practice of "bacha bazi" is pedophilia, which is recognized and legitimized by tradition. But it is also the maintenance of slavery, since all "bacha bazi" are slaves, forcibly kept by their masters and expelled when they reach puberty. Religious fundamentalists see the practice of bacha bazi as an ungodly custom, which is why it was banned during the Taliban's rule. A similar phenomenon of using boys for dancing and homosexual entertainment also exists in India, but there the boys are also castrated, turning them into eunuchs, who constitute a special despised caste of Indian society, formed from former slaves.

Slavery in the household

Another type of slavery that is still widespread in the modern world is forced free labor in the household. Most often, residents of African and Asian countries become free domestic slaves. Domestic slavery is most common in West and East Africa, as well as among representatives of diasporas of immigrants from African countries living in Europe and the United States. As a rule, large households of wealthy Africans and Asians cannot get by with the help of family members alone and require the presence of servants. But servants in such households often, in accordance with local traditions, work for free, although they receive not so bad content and are considered more like the younger members of the family. However, of course, there are many examples of cruel treatment of domestic slaves. Let us turn to the situation in Mauritanian and Malian societies. Among the Arab-Berber nomads who live on the territory of Mauritania, caste division into four estates is preserved. These are warriors - "hasans", clergy - "marabouts", free community members and slaves with freedmen ("kharatins"). As a rule, victims of raids on settled southern neighbors - Negroid tribes - were turned into slavery. Most slaves are hereditary, descendants of captured southerners or bought from Saharan nomads. They have long been integrated into Mauritanian and Malian society, occupying the corresponding floors of the social hierarchy in it, and many of them are not even burdened by their position, knowing full well that it is better to live as a servant of a status owner than to try to lead an independent existence of an urban pauper, marginal or lumpen. Basically, domestic slaves perform the functions of housewives, caring for camels, keeping the house clean, guarding property. As for the slaves, it is possible to perform the functions of concubines, but more often - also work on the household, cooking, cleaning the premises.

The number of domestic slaves in Mauritania is estimated at about 500 thousand people. That is, slaves make up about 20% of the country's population. This is the largest indicator in the world, but the problematic situation lies in the fact that the cultural and historical specificity of the Mauritanian society, as mentioned above, does not forbid such a fact of social relations. Slaves do not seek to leave their masters, but on the other hand, the fact of the presence of slaves stimulates their owners to the possible purchase of new slaves, including children from poor families who do not at all want to become concubines or house cleaners. In Mauritania, there are human rights organizations that fight against slavery, but their activities are met with numerous obstacles from the slave owners, as well as the police and special services - after all, among the generals and senior officers of the latter, many also use the labor of free domestic servants. The Mauritanian government denies the fact of slavery in the country and claims that domestic work is traditional for Mauritanian society and the bulk of domestic servants are not going to leave their masters. Approximately similar situation is observed in Niger, in Nigeria and Mali, in Chad. Even the law enforcement system of European states cannot serve as a full-fledged obstacle to domestic slavery. After all, migrants from African countries bring the tradition of domestic slavery with them to Europe. Wealthy families of Mauritanian, Malian, Somali origin send servants from their home countries, who, most often, are not paid money and who can be subjected to cruel treatment by their masters. Repeatedly, the French police freed people from Mali, Niger, Senegal, Congo, Mauritania, Guinea and other African countries from domestic captivity, who, most often, fell into domestic slavery as early as childhood - more precisely, they were sold into the service of rich compatriots by their own parents , perhaps wishing children well - to avoid total poverty in their native countries by living in rich families abroad, albeit as a free servant.

Domestic slavery is widespread in the West Indies, especially in Haiti. Haiti is perhaps the most disadvantaged country in Latin America. Despite the fact that the former French colony became the first (other than the United States) country in the New World to achieve political independence, the standard of living in this country remains extremely low. In fact, it is socio-economic reasons that encourage Haitians to sell their children to more affluent families as domestic workers. According to independent experts, at present, at least 200-300 thousand Haitian children are in "domestic slavery", which on the island is called the word "restavek" - "service". The way the life and work of the “restavek” will go depends, first of all, on the prudence and goodwill of its owners, or on their absence. So, a “restavek” can be treated as a younger relative, or they can be turned into an object of bullying and sexual harassment. Of course, in the end, most child slaves are still abused.

Child labor in industry and agriculture

One of the most common types of free slave labor in Third World countries is child labor in agricultural work, factories and mines. In total, at least 250 million children are exploited in the world, with 153 million children exploited in Asia and 80 million in Africa. Of course, not all of them can be called slaves in the full sense of the word, since many children in factories and plantations still receive wages, albeit beggarly ones. But it is not uncommon for cases where free child labor is used, with children being bought from their parents specifically as unpaid workers. Thus, the labor of children is used on plantations of cocoa beans and peanuts in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire. Moreover, the main part of child slaves comes to these countries from neighboring poorer and more problematic states - Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. For many young inhabitants of these countries, working on plantations, where they give food, is at least some way to survive, since it is not known how their life would have developed in parental families with a traditionally large number of children. It is known that Niger and Mali have one of the highest birth rates in the world, with most children born to peasant families who themselves barely make ends meet. Droughts in the Sahel zone, destroying agricultural crops, contribute to the impoverishment of the peasant population of the region. Therefore, peasant families are forced to place their children on plantations and mines - only to "throw" them off the family budget. In 2012, the Burkina Faso police, with the help of Interpol officers, freed child slaves working in a gold mine. Children worked in the mines in dangerous and unsanitary conditions without being paid. A similar operation was carried out in Ghana, where the police also released children who worked in the sex industry. A large number of children are enslaved in Sudan, Somalia and Eritrea, where their labor is used primarily in agriculture. Nestle, one of the largest producers of cocoa and chocolate, is accused of using child labor. Most of the plantations and enterprises owned by this company are located in West African countries that actively use child labor. So, in Côte d'Ivoire, which provides 40% of the world's cocoa beans, at least 109 thousand children work on cocoa plantations. Moreover, working conditions on plantations are very difficult and are currently recognized as the worst in the world among other options for using child labor. It is known that in 2001, about 15,000 children from Mali became victims of the slave trade and were sold on cocoa plantations in Côte d'Ivoire. More than 30,000 children from Côte d'Ivoire itself also work in agricultural production on plantations, and another 600,000 children work on small family farms, the latter including both relatives of the owners and acquired servants. In Benin, the plantations use the labor of at least 76,000 child slaves, among whom there are natives of this country and other countries of West Africa, including the Congo. The majority of Beninese child slaves work on cotton plantations. In The Gambia, underage children are often forced to beg, and most often children are forced to beg ... religious school teachers who see this as an additional source of their income.

Child labor is very widely used in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and some other countries of South and Southeast Asia. India has the second largest number of child workers in the world. Over 100 million Indian children are forced to work to earn their living. Despite the fact that child labor is officially prohibited in India, it is massive. Children work at construction sites, in mines, brick factories, agricultural plantations, semi-handicraft enterprises and workshops, and in the tobacco business. In the state of Meghalaya in northeast India, in the Jaintiya coalfield, about two thousand children work. Children from 8 to 12 years old and teenagers 12-16 years old make up ¼ of the eight thousand contingent of miners, but receive half as much as adult workers. The average daily salary of a child at the mine is no more than five dollars, more often three dollars. Of course, there is no question of any observance of safety and sanitary standards. Recently, Indian children have been competing with incoming migrant children from neighboring Nepal and Myanmar, who value their labor even less than three dollars a day. At the same time, the socio-economic situation of many millions of families in India is such that without the employment of children, they simply cannot survive. After all, a family here can have five or more children - despite the fact that adults may not have a job or receive very little money. Finally, we must not forget that for many children from poor families, working at an enterprise is also an opportunity to get some kind of shelter over their heads, since there are millions of homeless people in the country. In Delhi alone there are hundreds of thousands of homeless people who have no roof over their heads and live on the street. Child labor is also used by large multinational companies, which, precisely because of the cheapness of labor, move their production to Asian and African countries. So, in the same India, at least 12 thousand children work on the plantations of the infamous Monsanto company alone. These are actually also slaves, despite the fact that their employer is a world-famous company created by representatives of the “civilized world”.

Elsewhere in South and Southeast Asia, child labor is also heavily used in industrial settings. In Nepal in particular, despite a law in force since 2000 prohibiting the employment of children under 14 years of age, children actually make up the majority of workers. Moreover, the law implies a ban on child labor only at registered enterprises, and the bulk of children work on unregistered agricultural farms, in handicraft workshops, as house helpers, etc. Three-quarters of young Nepalese workers are employed in agriculture, with the majority of the work being done by girls. Also, child labor is widely used in brick factories, despite the fact that brick production is very harmful. Also, children work in quarries, carry out work on sorting garbage. Naturally, safety regulations at such enterprises are also not observed. The majority of working Nepalese children do not receive any secondary or even primary education and are illiterate - the only possible way of life for them is unskilled hard work for the rest of their lives.

In Bangladesh, 56% of the country's children live below the international poverty line of $1 a day. This leaves them no choice but to work in heavy production. 30% of Bangladeshi children under the age of 14 are already working. Almost 50% of Bangladeshi children drop out of school before completing primary school and go to work - in brick factories, balloon factories, agricultural farms, and so on. But the first place in the list of countries most actively using child labor rightfully belongs to Myanmar, neighboring India and Bangladesh. Every third child aged 7 to 16 works here. Moreover, children are employed not only in industrial enterprises, but also in the army - as army loaders, who are subjected to harassment and bullying by soldiers. There have even been cases of children being used to "clear mines" - that is, children were released into the field to find out where there are mines and where there is free passage. Later, under pressure from the world community, the military regime of Myanmar went to a significant reduction in the number of child soldiers and military servants in the country's army, but the use of child slave labor in enterprises and construction sites, in agriculture continues. The bulk of Myanmar children are used to collect rubber, on rice and cane plantations. In addition, thousands of children from Myanmar migrate to neighboring India and Thailand in search of work. Some of them fall into sexual slavery, others become free labor in the mines. But those who are sold to households or tea plantations are even envied, because working conditions there are disproportionately easier than in mines and mines, and they pay even more outside of Myanmar. It is noteworthy that children do not receive wages for their work - parents receive it for them, who do not work themselves, but perform the functions of supervisors for their own children. In the absence or infancy of children, women work. Over 40% of children in Myanmar do not attend school at all, but devote all their time to work, acting as family breadwinners.

Slaves of war

Another type of use of virtual slave labor is the use of children in armed conflicts in third world countries. It is known that in a number of African and Asian countries there is a developed practice of buying, and more often abducting, children and adolescents in poor villages, with the aim of subsequent use as soldiers. In the countries of West and Central Africa, at least ten percent of children and adolescents are forced to serve as soldiers in the formations of local rebel groups, and even in government forces, although the governments of these countries, of course, do everything possible to hide the presence of children in their armed units. It is known that children are soldiers most of all in Congo, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Liberia.

During the Civil War in Liberia, at least ten thousand children and teenagers took part in the fighting, about the same number of child soldiers fought during the armed conflict in Sierra Leone. In Somalia, teenagers under the age of 18 make up almost the bulk of the soldiers and government troops, and formations of radical fundamentalist organizations. Many of the African and Asian "child soldiers" after the end of hostilities cannot adapt and end their lives as alcoholics, drug addicts and criminals. There is a widespread practice of using child soldiers forcibly captured from peasant families in Myanmar, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, and the Philippines. In recent years, child soldiers have been actively used by religious fundamentalist groups fighting in West and Northeast Africa, the Middle East, Afghanistan, as well as international terrorist organizations. Meanwhile, the use of children as soldiers is prohibited by international conventions. In fact, the forced conscription of children into military service is not much different from slavery, only children are at even greater risk of death or loss of health, and also endanger their psyche.

Slave labor of illegal migrants

In those countries of the world that are relatively developed economically and are attractive to foreign labor migrants, the practice of using the free labor of illegal migrants is widely developed. As a rule, illegal labor migrants entering these countries, due to the lack of documents authorizing them to work, or even identification, cannot fully protect their rights, are afraid to contact the police, which makes them easy prey for modern slave owners and slave traders. The majority of illegal migrants work in construction sites, manufacturing, and agriculture, and their work may be unpaid or paid very poorly and with delays. Most often, the slave labor of migrants is used by their own tribesmen, who arrived in the host countries earlier and created their own business during this time. In particular, a representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan, in an interview with the Russian Service of the Air Force, said that most of the crimes related to the use of slave labor by immigrants from this republic are also committed by natives of Tajikistan. They act as recruiters, intermediaries and traffickers and supply free labor from Tajikistan to Russia, thereby deceiving their own compatriots. A large number of migrants who seek help from human rights structures, during the years of free work in a foreign land, not only did not earn money, but also undermined their health, up to becoming disabled due to terrible working and living conditions. Some of them were beaten, tortured, harassed, and there were also frequent cases of sexual violence and harassment against migrant women and girls. Moreover, these problems are common to most countries of the world where a significant number of foreign labor migrants live and work.

The Russian Federation uses the free labor of illegal migrants from the republics of Central Asia, primarily Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as from Moldova, China, North Korea, and Vietnam. In addition, the facts of the use of slave labor and Russian citizens are known - both at enterprises and in construction firms, and in private subsidiary plots. Such cases are suppressed by the country's law enforcement agencies, but one can hardly say that kidnappings and, moreover, free labor in the country will be eliminated in the foreseeable future. According to the 2013 Modern Slavery Report, there are approximately 540,000 people in the Russian Federation whose situation can be described as slavery or debt bondage. However, based on a thousand people, this is not such a big figure, and Russia occupies only 49th place in the list of countries in the world. The leading positions in terms of the number of slaves per thousand people are occupied by: 1) Mauritania, 2) Haiti, 3) Pakistan, 4) India, 5) Nepal, 6) Moldova, 7) Benin, 8) Ivory Coast, 9) Gambia, 10) Gabon.

The illegal labor of migrants brings many problems - both for the migrants themselves and for the economy of the host country. After all, migrants themselves turn out to be completely insecure workers who can be deceived, not paid their wages, settled in inadequate conditions, or not ensured safety at work. At the same time, the state also loses, since illegal migrants do not pay taxes, are not registered, that is, they are officially “non-existent”. Thanks to the presence of illegal migrants, the level of crime rises sharply - both through crimes committed by migrants against the indigenous population and each other, and through crimes committed against migrants. Therefore, the legalization of migrants and the fight against illegal migration is also one of the key guarantees of at least partial elimination of free and forced labor in the modern world.

Can the slave trade be eradicated?

According to human rights organizations, in the modern world, tens of millions of people are in virtual slavery. These are women, and adult men, and teenagers, and very young children. It is natural that international organizations are trying to the best of their ability to combat the terrible fact of the 21st century slave trade and slavery. However, this struggle actually does not provide a real remedy for the situation. The reason for the slave trade and slave ownership in the modern world lies, first of all, in the socio-economic plane. In the same countries of the "third world" most of the children - slaves are sold by their own parents due to the impossibility of their content. Overpopulation in Asian and African countries, mass unemployment, high birth rates, illiteracy of a significant part of the population - all these factors together contribute to the preservation of child labor, the slave trade, and slavery. The other side of the problem under consideration is the moral and ethnic decomposition of society, which occurs primarily in the case of "westernization" without relying on one's own traditions and values. When it is combined with socio-economic causes, a very fertile ground arises for the flourishing of mass prostitution. So, many girls in resort countries become prostitutes on their own initiative. At least for them, this is the only way to earn for the standard of living that they are trying to lead in Thai, Cambodian or Cuban resort cities. Of course, they could stay in their native village and lead the lifestyle of their mothers and grandmothers, doing agriculture, but the spread of mass culture and consumer values ​​reaches even the remote provincial regions of Indochina, not to mention the resort islands of Central America.

Until the socio-economic, cultural, political causes of slavery and the slave trade are eliminated, it will be premature to talk about the eradication of these phenomena on a global scale. If in European countries, in the Russian Federation, the situation can still be corrected by increasing the efficiency of law enforcement agencies, limiting the scale of illegal labor migration from the country and into the country, then in the countries of the "third world", of course, the situation will remain unchanged. It is possible that it will only get worse, given the disparity in demographic and economic growth rates in most African and Asian countries, as well as the high level of political instability associated, among other things, with rampant crime and terrorism.

MOSCOW, July 26 - RIA Novosti, Larisa Zhukova. Every year, international human rights organizations publish the Global Slavery Index, in which Russia traditionally ranks among the top ten countries. According to the activists of the Russian movement "Alternativa", who are engaged in the liberation of people, there are at least one hundred and twenty thousand people in the slave markets of Russia. About how they fall into slavery and how they are rescued from it, the correspondent of RIA Novosti understood.

Without chains and shackles

The investigation was conducted by employees of the Butyrskaya Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office and the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department. They managed to prove the guilt of Sholpan Istambekova. But in the absence of an article on the use of slave labor (it appeared in 2003), the store owner was charged with torturing minors. After two and a half years of imprisonment, she was released under an amnesty.

Meanwhile, the Istanbekov clan did not lose influence in the Moscow region - the Sholpan sisters continued to keep grocery stores. As noted in the complaint of the Golyanovka slaves to the Strasbourg Court (the lawyers of the Civic Assistance Committee continue to defend their rights), in 2008 the inhabitants of the district complained to the council about various violations in the store. But officials, after conducting checks, noted that the information was not confirmed.

The scandal erupted in 2012. Activists rescued 11 people from the basement of a store on Novosibirskaya Street. The same unwitting workers were found in other shops on neighboring streets. All outlets belonged to the same family: Zhansulu Istanbekova owned one store, her sister and son-in-law owned the rest.

It turned out that the slaves from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan had lived in the Istanbekovs' shops for five to ten years. All this time, they were forced to work for free for almost 21 hours every day under the threat of violence. The workers were not allowed to leave the back rooms. As a result of sexual violence, the girls became pregnant. One of them had a forced abortion at a later date, others gave birth in isolation. The children were abused and "disappeared".

At a meeting of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation and the Human Rights Council under the President of Russia, chaired by Anatoly Kucherena, Andrey Sevryugin, deputy head of the Internal Security Department of the Moscow Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, refused to initiate a case, citing the fact that the data of the activists were not confirmed during the checks.

“Since then, this grocery store has received our nickname “indestructible.” In December 2015, he was convicted by journalists of selling alcohol at night, but this also did not affect his future work,” recalls Oleg Melnikov.

At the end of 2016, another high-profile case was the escape from a store on Novosibirskaya Street of another slave - 20-year-old Nesibel Ibragimova, a native of Kazakhstan. She came to Moscow in May, following her husband, at the suggestion of her mother-in-law, to earn money until the New Year as a seller for 30 thousand rubles with free accommodation. The shelter really turned out to be free - like the girl's work.

"Documents, things, the phone were immediately taken away - they said, I'll lose it. During the day they were fed with water and old frozen bread, at night they were forced to drink vodka - so that they forgot their name. A small child of five years old lived in the back room. They beat him. They said that he was "the rest whores. "It was impossible to communicate with people and go out - there are cameras everywhere," Ibragimova said.

The scandals in Golyanovo became so loud that in Tatarstan a performance called "Kibet" was staged based on a specially written play. According to the plot of the play, Kazakh woman Ziyash, the owner of a cheap grocery store in Moscow, profits from the slave labor of her compatriots in order to atone for all her sins by building a mosque in her homeland.

So far, the prototype of the theatrical heroine has not returned to her homeland. She closed the store at 11 Novosibirskskaya Street and opened it at 1 Novosibirskaya Street. The Istanbekovs could not be brought to justice, despite all the evidence of violence against the "Golyanovskaya slaves", says Oleg Melnikov.

"The Commissioner for Human Rights in Kazakhstan asked for help from a colleague Moskalkova. But they are so arrogant that they do not care. Local police officers do not notice them, and all the noise is like water off a duck's back. They continue to keep slaves in stores. Once every two months there is information that someone ran away from them, but nothing happens."

Five months ago, the Krasnogorsk police opened a criminal case against the Alternativa movement under article 322.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation for organizing illegal migration: for maintaining a shelter in which guest workers released from captivity were temporarily located - such institutions are not provided at the state level.

So far, Melnikov does not stop working, but says that in the case of the "Golyanov slave owners" he is powerless: "Closing the store by legal means will not work. Rather, we will cease to exist."

Where to go if you suspect slave labor

In Moscow:

Department of Internal Security of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow - 8499 255 9657

Department for juvenile affairs of the Internal Affairs Directorate at the Moscow metro (if children are involved) - 8 495 621 93 50; 8 495 625 37 31

For Russia:

Movement "Alternative" — 8 965 345 51 61

Civic Assistance Committee — 8 968 918 98 65

Help center for survivors of sexual violence "Sisters" - 8 499 901 02 01

“We were forbidden to talk to each other, give our names and mention where we are from. Every now and then some vile, ugly men came in and dragged the girls into the rooms, and sometimes raped us in front of our eyes. They yelled at them, ordered them to move in any way, to pretend to be excited, to moan ... Those who resisted were beaten. Those who stubbornly disobeyed were locked up in a dark basement with rats for three days, depriving them of food and water. One girl refused anal sex, and the same night the owner brought five men. They held her on the floor and took turns anal raping her right in front of us. She screamed and screamed and we all cried.”

These are the true memories of a girl named Sofia about the so-called "training grounds" in Serbia, recorded by Canadian journalist Victor Malarek. Girls from different countries are brought to such places in order to break their will, destroy their personality and teach them the “wisdom” of intimate services.

None of the future “priestesses of love” who ended up in the Serbian sex camp chose their fate on their own. The ranks of thousands of sex slaves are regularly replenished all over the world in three main ways:

• "The Boy in Love Method" (or "Marriage Agencies")
• good job invitation
• kidnapping

Dream of a better life

“The victims are usually teenage girls, young and defenseless, who fall in love with older smugglers. Girls are attracted to Mercedes and Audi, which are driven around by pimps.

This is how Claire Melinte, an employee of the Casa Bridget public center, explains why in Romania and other countries of Eastern Europe the powerful wave of trafficking - human trafficking - for the purpose of sexual exploitation does not subside, and only increases from year to year.

Most of the forced prostitutes in Europe are girls from the European East: from Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, the Czech Republic, and also from Ukraine. Natives of these countries often enter the sex industry on a voluntary basis, but those who initially dreamed only of a good life without trafficking themselves are also easily lured.

As a rule, pimps and smugglers go for their "goods" to the remote corners of Eastern Europe. In the same Romania now, in the 21st century, many villages have been preserved where there is no Internet and television, and water has to be transported from a well on a donkey or in a handcart.

There are no secrets - it's all about the low standard of living and the passionate desire of young girls and girls to escape from the trap of poverty. It is enough for a slave trader to come to the village in a foreign car, ring a gold chain in front of the local "lolitas" and spin around in an expensive jacket - and half the job is done.

Sometimes a “buyer” is immediately included in the transaction:

"Everything is very simple. Let's say I bring you a chick, then it's your turn as a buyer. For example, you are a rich guy from hell knows where. A stupid girl will take the bait in three seconds: you put noodles on her ears, and she is yours. Then it’s a matter of technique, because you are in your own country,” is how a former Romanian pimp and smuggler describes a typical “deal”.

If you take a girl to the city and take her to a restaurant, the chances become almost one hundred percent. A bouquet of flowers and one dinner - and the future prostitute will not have to be kidnapped and intimidated. She will pack her things and run away from home. And when the border is left behind, a lonely girl without money and documents (which, as you know, are immediately taken away) will simply have no choice.

The price of a slave

“In the morning and afternoon I had 15 clients, and in the evening and until the next morning they brought 20 more,” is how 26-year-old Mihaela from Romania describes her typical “work day” in an interview with the BBC. Michaela was sold into slavery three times, and the last, third time she was sold by her own boyfriend, the father of her little daughter.

The average age of sex slaves at the first sale is 20 years old. The younger the girl, the higher she is valued, but not every pimp will dare to mess with minors. When a tormented woman "goes to her knees", the pimp often decides to resell her - until she runs away or kills herself.

The cost of the girl, according to the slave trader, who gave an anonymous interview to Euronews, depends on the "quality of the goods." It can be 800 euros, or maybe 2-3 thousand. Pimps are quite closely monitoring the psychological state of the victim. At a certain point, the endless intimidation ceases to work, and the girl can do anything - especially if the right opportunity presents itself. So, for example, a compassionate client helped a Romanian woman to escape.

But more often, of course, clients do not care about the experiences of prostitutes. A huge number of concubines from Romania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Poland, as well as from the Philippines and Thailand work in the brothels of prosperous Switzerland.

Work as bait

Another easy way to lure a new prostitute into a brothel is to offer her a job. Thousands of girls go to other countries to work as nannies, nurses, waitresses, animators, to harvest berries and fruits, to do "medical" massage. Young "workers" often do not understand until the last moment that the "generous offer" has a double bottom.

Lyudmila from Perm once decided to combine business with pleasure one summer - to relax in the suburbs of sunny Madrid and earn some money. A certain “travel agency” offered an ideal option: for a week of rest in Spain, a 28-year-old Russian woman pays 1,200 euros, and then goes to harvest and personally, with her own hands, earns 2,000 euros. The benefit, it seems, is obvious - a free vacation abroad and 800 euros in hand. And it doesn't matter that she flies on a tourist visa - in Spain, obviously, no one wants to pay extra taxes!

At the airport Luda was met by the “employer” in a car. The girl was taken to a country villa, where she was locked in a room with three more Russian women. After that, she was given a “uniform” from a sex shop, her passport was taken away and new duties were listed.

A similar situation occurred with an 18-year-old resident of Kazakhstan in 2016. Only there was no “travel agency” here - a friend invited the girl to the Kingdom of Bahrain. She promised a job as a masseuse without sexual overtones, and the young Karaganda woman “pecked”.

As a result, the girl ended up in an apartment on one of the last floors of a skyscraper without the right to go outside. The work turned out to be quite definite, but it was connected with massage only indirectly.

The opinion of an Israeli gangster

Both stories ended well. A native of Karaganda was able to send several videos to journalists, which soon appeared on the Internet. After the appearance of these videos, representatives of the Kazakh Embassy in Saudi Arabia contacted the police of the Kingdom of Bayhrain. The girl was released by the police.

And Permian Lyudmila escaped from the "pleasure villa" herself, along with another compatriot Elena. The Russian women reached the city by hitchhiking, but the police, to whom they rushed for help, almost handed them back to the pimps. Then the girls turned to the Russian embassy. They were helped to return home.

At the same time, the slave traders are sure that the girls traveling "to work" are foolish:

“What a dumbass you have to be to think that you are sent abroad to work as a waitress or a dancer in a club. This is cretinism!” - said the famous Israeli pimp, drug dealer and smuggler Ludwig (Leonid) Feinberg.

Gangster Feinberg was born in Odessa, emigrated to Israel, from there to the United States, and "finished" in a Panamanian prison. In Panama, he supplied clients with "the best girls from Colombia and Russia." And, according to him, in the modern world there is nothing easier than buying or selling a woman into slavery.

Voodoo magic in the service of pimps

There is also a "dark" side of sexual slavery in Europe and other parts of the "enlightened world". In addition to Eastern European countries and Asia, sex slaves are supplied to the Old World from Africa. Nigeria can be considered the record holder for trafficking.

Young Nigerians go abroad, like everyone else, in the hope of a better future. They want to get an education, or at least a decent job in Europe, so that they no longer need and "live like a human being." Many dream of helping the family. But slave prostitutes, in the best case, get only 10% of earnings. More often they work for food and beatings.

The Nigerian slave trade is run by women - they are called "Madame". And the basis of trafficking here is, oddly enough, voodoo magic. Nigerians unconditionally believe in the power of the priest and are sure that if, after the ritual, they go against the will of their "master", something terrible will happen.

Voodoo priests take “samples” from girls: pubic hair, menstrual blood, and nail clippings. These body parts are used in a ritual that supposedly binds a girl to a madam. Now the Nigerian has no choice - either work or an indescribably terrible punishment. It can be insanity, serious illness or even death.

Details from the life of Nigerians were told in an interview with the Austrian edition of Die Presse by Joan Reiterer, an African who almost fell for the "bait" of slave traders. True, they wanted to make her not a prostitute, but “Madame”, but the career of a pimp did not seduce the woman.

Joan now lives in Vienna and leads the Exit organization, which deals with the victims of the African slave trade.

One of the scariest things about human trafficking in Africa is that a person can be sold multiple times. Girls who escaped from brothels and returned home can easily fall into bondage again. Their families have been threatened sometimes for years, and often these threats are confirmed by violence. So it's not uncommon for Nigerians to find themselves in an endless cycle of sexual slavery, escapes and returns.

Slave Markets

In our time, there are places in the world that can be called "slave markets" - and there is no mistake in the definition. One of these markets, where girls are sold into sexual slavery, is located in Bosnia and is called Acapulco.

As the journalist Victor Malarek says in his book, women are sold there “like cattle”. Slaves are put up completely naked by the road so that potential buyers can choose a product to their liking without leaving the car. The future owner can touch the goods with his hands, check his teeth, and only after that decide whether it is worth spending money.

Slaves are also sold at special auctions in nightclubs. In such establishments, girls go on stage with numbers in their hands. After the fashion show, the “product” can also be touched and examined closer.

Slave markets are flourishing in Syria, where ISIS* followers are active in selling girls and girls into sexual slavery. This was stated by UN Secretary General António Guterres at a meeting of the UN Security Council in March this year. According to Guterres, the extremists are trying to make human trafficking "legal" and even hold a kind of master class, which explains where and how to get hostages, at what price to sell them and how to exploit them.

Boys for wealthy gentlemen

However, it is not always only women who are subjected to sexual exploitation. Boys under adolescence are also in demand as sex slaves in certain circles. In Afghanistan, for example, there is an ancient tradition - "bacha bazi". This is the name of the boy dancers who are used by powerful men for sexual pleasures.

Sometimes boys are kidnapped, but quite often they are simply sold by relatives, including parents. Children are dressed in women's clothes and forced to dance at the holidays, and after that - to please the owner in all possible ways.

When a boy reaches maturity, he is simply kicked out into the street. A young man who is not adapted to anything, as a rule, becomes an outcast, a beggar and a beggar.

There is a similar tradition in India. With one small amendment - underage slave boys are also castrated here. Later they are included in a separate caste of eunuchs, the most despised and disenfranchised in the country.

give birth to sell

It's scary to think about it, but it's not uncommon for parents in poor Asian countries to sell their own children to make ends meet. Suffice it to recall the sensational film "Memoirs of a Geisha", the main character of which began to comprehend the art of geishas after her father sold her and her sister.

But more often, the sold girl will have a much less cheerful fate than the heroine of the film by Rob Marshall. Children - both boys and girls - are often sold by parents in Thailand, Cambodia and the same India. By the way, many sex tourists who prefer minors, as well as gay tourists, are well aware of this. They go to these countries specifically for “fresh impressions”.

Labor slavery

Very often, children are used not only for prostitution, but also for hard work. Savings on wages makes it possible to make the goods cheaper, and production - extremely profitable for its owner.

Slaves for hard work are sold, bought and actively used around the world. The most common areas of work where you can find people who fell into captivity are construction and agriculture. There are also especially terrible places from where it is impossible to return alive.

For example, in Brazil, people are often kidnapped to take them to the thicket of the Amazonian jungle. There, healthy men burn out in 2-3 years: they have to work on burning giant eucalyptus trees into charcoal. The charcoal burners have nowhere to run, they cannot contact the police - all that remains is to work and die.

People are actively kidnapped in countries such as China, Sudan, New Guinea, Zimbabwe, Congo, as well as Belarus, Moldova, Lithuania and Ukraine. More than 50 thousand people disappear annually on the territory of these states - they are kidnapped for the purpose of being sold into slavery.

Most of the slaves were once free people who did not even think that such a nightmare could happen to them. But this is the reality - any "gallant stranger" with flowers or "your boyfriend" offering a job can turn out to be a slave trader. And there are still enough places in the world where there is no Wi-Fi and the law does not apply. This means that you must always be on the lookout.

* An extremist organization banned in Russia.

Margarita Zvyagintseva