Human Trafficking
On this beautiful spring day I am reading about human
trafficking triggered by watching “The Whistleblower”, a film based on true
events about a female police officer in postwar Bosnia who uncovers a trafficking
ring involving UN officials and contractors.
The conditions of the young women who are lured abroad with tales of
money and excitement (one can only hope that doesn’t happen as much now) are worse
than we can even imagine.
Mostly trafficking equates to female slavery. Woman are still chattel in many parts of the
world. Even Turkey, a modern country, reports
many cases of honor killings. But let’s
examine those UN officials and contractors.
What did they tell themselves to
make their actions possible? Don’t
men have sisters, wives, and daughters? Is it just another case of the
brutality of humankind? Woman is the
other, and once you turn any being into someone separate from yourself, or even
different, anything is possible. Humans
will never evolve until women regain a place of value in all societies. It is precisely the femaleness, the feminine
that our culture has deplored and tried over and over to eradicate, even to the
point of making our own mother earth unable to sustain life.
The Whistleblower
Purge- the wonderful novel by Oksanen
http://www.amazon.com/Purge-Sofi-Oksanen/dp/0802170773
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