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RE: New Slaves - Modern Human Trafficking
I lived in Kuwait for a short time.. The amount of Human Trafficking there is CRAZY...
I lived in Kuwait for a short time.. The amount of Human Trafficking there is CRAZY...
Are those people coming from Third world countries? What is their position in Kuwait? I've watched a few documentaries on human trafficking in the Gulf states. It's mostly women from India, Philippines, Malaysia et cetera who apparently work as maids but it is a cover up for slaves in literal sense, doing every job that it is asked from them to do.
So many of them start by getting contractor jobs with US Companies.. KBR to name one.. and they get paid SHITTY wages and have horrible living conditions. I was a contractor in Afghanistan making 6 figures and had a whole tent with only 3 roommates we got a good size of space so we werent cramped.. Those people got paid Mcdonalds worker wages and less (sending that money back home to support their families) and live like 10 - 15 people in a SMALL ASS TENT. basically on top of each other... then when there time is up. They have to leave country and most go to Kuwait to wait for another job.. they get there... and get stuck because they take their passports.. Kuwaitis have money.. so they open a restaurant , a hotel, etc.. and Get these people to work for them paying them just enough to survive but never enough to get home... They Drive them to and from work.. they live in crappy apartments... and we as Americans.. know about it.. but not much we can do.. Not our country
Thank you for this informative response. Indeed the Gulf states are Western most reliable allies in the Middle East, yet none of the Western countries representatives have ever spoken openly about this horrific crime. Mostly it's the journalists who are covering this topic but it's simply not enough to put pressure on the institutions of these "exotic" countries to start combating this problem. It looks like money and oil prevails over basic human rights.
I won't say that it is the problem of the USA or any Western country, but simply said, it is a hypocrisy to make sale contracts, democracy and economy boosting projects in this part of the world, when you know from all these facts that the waitress in the meeting board room might be - a slave. In the 21th century...