by gregkavarnos » Tue Apr 10, 2012 4:32 pm
muni wrote:Nepali slaves in the Middle East - video
Pete Pattison investigates the trafficking of people escaping poverty and conflict in Nepal. Unscrupulous agents take huge sums of money from them for work abroad then consign them to slavery and appalling conditions in the Middle East. Many are abused by their employers and some are killed at the hands of agents
Date of the video is april last year, but still going on, no solution for the poorest. Worldly power is so admired...!!!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2 ... ates-video
Same thing happens to Afghan refugess during their transit through Turkey. They are bonded to textile factories in order to pay off their debts to smugglers. The smugglers con them by saying it costs $x to get to Europe but once they get them as far as Istanbul they so now you have to pay another $x for the rest of the journey.
I have personally had contact with hundreds of Afghan kids that were forced to work in the Turkish textiles industry.

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