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DemoCrates

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Dec 20, 2001, 12:47:47 PM12/20/01
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Een prachtig staaltje van zogenaamd "ernstig anti-semitisme".
Te gek voor woorden eigenlijk. Als hij het had gehad over b.v. Albanië was er
niks aan de hand geweest ............
Of zijn er in deze NG mensen die de mening van de ambassadeur wél als
anti-semitisch beschouwen ?

-----------------------
Joden woest na uitspraken Franse ambassadeur


AMSTERDAM - De Franse ambassadeur in Londen, Daniel Bernard (60), heeft voor
een diplomatieke rel gezorgd door volgens sommigen ernstige anti-semitische
uitlatingen te doen op het feestje van The Spectator-hoofdredacteur en
Conservatief parlementslid Boris Johnson. Vooraanstaande Britse joden hebben
gisteren om zijn aftreden gevraagd.
De ambassadeur, een vriend van de Franse president Chirac, deed zijn
vertrouwelijke uitspraken op het feestje tegenover Lord Black, de uitgever
van The Daily Telegraph. Lord Black lichtte later zijn vrouw in die de
uitspraken naderhand in de krant van haar man in een column weergaf. Volgens
haar had de Franse ambassadeur gezegd dat de huidige internationale
veiligheidscrisis de schuld was van "dat lullige kleine landje Israël".
Hij had eraan toegevoegd: "Waarom moeten wij in gevaar van een Derde
Wereldoorlog verkeren vanwege deze mensen?" Ambassadeur Bernard liet via een
woordvoerder weten dat hij zich de gekozen woorden niet kon herinneren en
dat hij meende dat hij op een feestje bij vrienden was.
-----------------------------

D.


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theo1610

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Dec 20, 2001, 3:38:20 PM12/20/01
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DemoCrates <democrat...@democrates.net> wrote:

>Een prachtig staaltje van zogenaamd "ernstig anti-semitisme".

>Te gek voor woorden eigenlijk. Als hij het had gehad over b.v. Albaniė was er


>niks aan de hand geweest ............
>Of zijn er in deze NG mensen die de mening van de ambassadeur wél als
>anti-semitisch beschouwen ?
>
>-----------------------
>Joden woest na uitspraken Franse ambassadeur
>
>
>AMSTERDAM - De Franse ambassadeur in Londen, Daniel Bernard (60), heeft voor
>een diplomatieke rel gezorgd door volgens sommigen ernstige anti-semitische
>uitlatingen te doen op het feestje van The Spectator-hoofdredacteur en
>Conservatief parlementslid Boris Johnson. Vooraanstaande Britse joden hebben
>gisteren om zijn aftreden gevraagd.
>De ambassadeur, een vriend van de Franse president Chirac, deed zijn
>vertrouwelijke uitspraken op het feestje tegenover Lord Black, de uitgever
>van The Daily Telegraph. Lord Black lichtte later zijn vrouw in die de
>uitspraken naderhand in de krant van haar man in een column weergaf. Volgens
>haar had de Franse ambassadeur gezegd dat de huidige internationale

>veiligheidscrisis de schuld was van "dat lullige kleine landje Israėl".


>Hij had eraan toegevoegd: "Waarom moeten wij in gevaar van een Derde
>Wereldoorlog verkeren vanwege deze mensen?" Ambassadeur Bernard liet via een
>woordvoerder weten dat hij zich de gekozen woorden niet kon herinneren en
>dat hij meende dat hij op een feestje bij vrienden was.
>-----------------------------

:)))))))))))))

>D.
>
>
> =================================
> De Multiculturele Chaos
> De andere kant van de Multikul-utopie
> zie : http://www.democrates.net
> =================================
>


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Albert

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Dec 20, 2001, 7:23:30 PM12/20/01
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"DemoCrates" <democrat...@democrates.net> wrote in message
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> Een prachtig staaltje van zogenaamd "ernstig anti-semitisme".
> Te gek voor woorden eigenlijk. Als hij het had gehad over b.v. Albanië was
er
> niks aan de hand geweest ............
> Of zijn er in deze NG mensen die de mening van de ambassadeur wél als
> anti-semitisch beschouwen ?

Hieruit blijkt duidelijk dat joden staat en religie niet van elkaar
gescheiden kunnen houden. Die ambassadeur had het over Israel, en dan
begrijp ik niet waarom de joden zich ermee moeten bemoeien. Ik heb de indruk
dat die joden de Britse nationaliteit hebben, dus wat hebben ze dan te
zeiken als die man het over Israel heeft, of zijn die Britse gasten stiekem
zionist.

Mag men nu geen kritiek meer hebben over die schandalige zionistische
moordenaars die Palestina bezet houden en met F-16's en Apaches beschieten,
is dat dan ook anti-semitisme, wel in dat geval dan ben ik een
anti-semitist, want ik ben tegen de bezetting van Israel op de Palestijnse
gebieden.

En tevens die ambassadeur Bernard heeft nog *groot* gelijk ook, dat "dat
lullige kleine landje Israel" een gevaar is voor ons allen.


Hee, ik ben het weer met demoo(n)tje eens, dat is nu al de 3de keer ;-))

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Dec 20, 2001, 8:09:33 PM12/20/01
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DemoCrates heeft geschreven in bericht ...

>Een prachtig staaltje van zogenaamd "ernstig anti-semitisme".
>Te gek voor woorden eigenlijk. Als hij het had gehad over b.v. Albaniė was

er
>niks aan de hand geweest ............
>Of zijn er in deze NG mensen die de mening van de ambassadeur wél als
>anti-semitisch beschouwen ?
>
>-----------------------
>Joden woest na uitspraken Franse ambassadeur
>
Zoals zo vaak, gewoon hysterisch gegil uit die monden met te dikke tongen!

>AMSTERDAM - De Franse ambassadeur in Londen, Daniel Bernard (60), heeft
voor
>een diplomatieke rel gezorgd door volgens sommigen ernstige anti-semitische
>uitlatingen te doen op het feestje van The Spectator-hoofdredacteur en
>Conservatief parlementslid Boris Johnson. Vooraanstaande Britse joden
hebben
>gisteren om zijn aftreden gevraagd.
>De ambassadeur, een vriend van de Franse president Chirac, deed zijn
>vertrouwelijke uitspraken op het feestje tegenover Lord Black, de uitgever
>van The Daily Telegraph. Lord Black lichtte later zijn vrouw in die de
>uitspraken naderhand in de krant van haar man in een column weergaf.
Volgens
>haar had de Franse ambassadeur gezegd dat de huidige internationale
>veiligheidscrisis de schuld was van "dat lullige kleine landje Israėl".

Richard Smol

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Dec 21, 2001, 7:50:35 AM12/21/01
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"DemoCrates" <democrat...@democrates.net> wrote in message news:mm842u0s1t68s4mp5...@4ax.com...
> Een prachtig staaltje van zogenaamd "ernstig anti-semitisme".
> Te gek voor woorden eigenlijk. Als hij het had gehad over b.v. Albanië was er
> niks aan de hand geweest ............
> Of zijn er in deze NG mensen die de mening van de ambassadeur wél als
> anti-semitisch beschouwen ?

Eh, nee. Volgens het citaat had hij het over Israel en niet specifiek over
joden. Mij is al vaker opgevallen dat kritiek op Israel wordt vertaald als
"anti-semitisme", wat discussies over de gebeurtenissen daar nogal moeilijk
maakt. Ik ben het persoonlijk niet eens met de nogal lompe manier waarmee
Israel omgaat met de Palestijnse kwestie. Alhoewel de Palestijnen ook niet
bepaald lieverdjes zijn, moet je wel beseffen dat het HUN land is dat is afgepakt.
En dat allemaal met de motivatie dat er in een of ander oud stoffig boek wordt
gerept over een "beloofd land". Nu mag een groot deel van de Israeli's dat
wel geloven, maar dat betekennt niet dat de Palestijnen dat ook moeten doen.

Op zo'n moment wordt de discussie natuurlijk wel lastig, omdat het concept
van een "beloofd land" duidelijk voortkomt uit de joodse religie. Nu mag
iedereen van mij geloven wat hij wil, maar dat geeft je nog geen recht anderen
te onderdrukken. Ja, ik weet dat in veel islamitische landen het volk wordt
onderdrukt met de Koran in de hand, maar dat geeft de Israeli's geen vrijbrief
om mensen eronder te houden onder verwijzing van wat passages uit de
Talmoed.

Het kan mij persoonlijk niet schelen wie nu wie onderdrukt... het is in alle
gevallen even afkeurenswaardig.

Groeten,

RS


Jaak

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Dec 21, 2001, 3:04:47 PM12/21/01
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Albert wrote:

> Hieruit blijkt duidelijk dat joden staat en religie niet van elkaar
> gescheiden kunnen houden. Die ambassadeur had het over Israel, en dan
> begrijp ik niet waarom de joden zich ermee moeten bemoeien. Ik heb de indruk
> dat die joden de Britse nationaliteit hebben, dus wat hebben ze dan te
> zeiken als die man het over Israel heeft, of zijn die Britse gasten stiekem
> zionist.

Uiteindelijk blijkt het nogal mee te vallen met het zogezegde
anti-semitisme in de wereld. Als je joden zelf zou moeten geloven, zou
de hele wereld uit niets anders bestaan dan nazi's. Volgens mij zijn het
de joden zelf die het liefst het begrip 'anti-semitisme' niet zouden
willen zien verdwijnen uit het woordenboek.

Vaak wordt het Duits antisemitisme uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog
aangegrepen om de hele Israėlische politiek te rechtvaardigen, inclusief
het racistische bestuur onder Sharon, wat onze Albert omschrijft als:

> Mag men nu geen kritiek meer hebben over die schandalige zionistische
> moordenaars die Palestina bezet houden en met F-16's en Apaches beschieten,
> is dat dan ook anti-semitisme, wel in dat geval dan ben ik een
> anti-semitist, want ik ben tegen de bezetting van Israel op de Palestijnse
> gebieden.

Dit rechtvaardigen van de joodse politiek kent inmiddels een lange
traditie, sinds het ontstaan van de staat Israel, waar de zionisten het
antisemitisme van de nationaal-socialistische Duitsers op een
schandalige wijze misbruikten om op lange termijn hetzelfde te doen als
die nazi's: Lebensraum vrijwaren ten koste van de autochtone bevolking,
de Palestijnen. Dat kent nu een triestige climax in de vorm van Ariel
Sharon, die een regelrecht havikenbeleid voert.

DemoCrates

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Dec 22, 2001, 5:44:35 AM12/22/01
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On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 01:23:30 +0100, "Albert" <m...@somewhere.nl> , wondering
whence the lambs and piglets bleated and squealed, wrote:


>Hee, ik ben het weer met demoo(n)tje eens, dat is nu al de 3de keer ;-))

Je gaat inderdaad vooruit met je intelligentie .......

Jaak

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Dec 22, 2001, 6:17:33 AM12/22/01
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DemoCrates wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 01:23:30 +0100, "Albert" <m...@somewhere.nl> , wondering
> whence the lambs and piglets bleated and squealed, wrote:
>
> >Hee, ik ben het weer met demoo(n)tje eens, dat is nu al de 3de keer ;-))
>
> Je gaat inderdaad vooruit met je intelligentie .......

Dat is geen kwestie van intelligentie, dat is een kwestie van opinie. Ik
ben het ongeveer even vaak niet met je eens als wel, omdat je soms
gewoon zit uit je nek te kletsen, en de andere keer je verdomd de nagel
op de kop slaagt.

God verhoede me dat ik het ooit volledig met iemand volledig eens zal
zijn.

DemoCrates

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Dec 22, 2001, 12:06:53 PM12/22/01
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On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 12:17:33 +0100, Jaak <ja...@nospam.com> , wondering whence

the lambs and piglets bleated and squealed, wrote:

>DemoCrates wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 01:23:30 +0100, "Albert" <m...@somewhere.nl> , wondering
>> whence the lambs and piglets bleated and squealed, wrote:
>>
>> >Hee, ik ben het weer met demoo(n)tje eens, dat is nu al de 3de keer ;-))
>>
>> Je gaat inderdaad vooruit met je intelligentie .......
>
>Dat is geen kwestie van intelligentie, dat is een kwestie van opinie. Ik
>ben het ongeveer even vaak niet met je eens als wel, omdat je soms
>gewoon zit uit je nek te kletsen, en de andere keer je verdomd de nagel
>op de kop slaagt.
>
>God verhoede me dat ik het ooit volledig met iemand volledig eens zal
>zijn.

Zo ? Heb je dan nog wel wat servies in huis of is je ega het tegendeel ? ...:-))

wally

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Dec 22, 2001, 12:20:30 PM12/22/01
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DELENDA EST JUDAICA!

Jewish Atrocities: White Slave Trade in Israel
Please Tell 100 People About White Sex Slaves!
Jews and the White Slave Trade
Jews Pimp Innocent White Women
Price of a Woman
Amnesty International Criticizes Israel
Over Trade of Women
Russian Women Sought After
Contraband Women
Russia Cracks Down on Jewish Slave Traders

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HELP ENSLAVED WHITE GIRLS AND WOMEN
by SonOfThunder
Our girls and women ARE being enslaved; here's a typical scenario: an
impoverished girl or woman from the former USSR answers an ad to work
abroad as a nanny, waitress, etc. False papers are acquired and she is
brought to Israel, Italy, Turkey, Canada, Australia, Germany, Holland,
the USA, or any other government where the power of the Jewish Mafia
and elite is manifest.
After arriving, the girl or lady is told that she will need to pay off
her &quo;debt.&quo; She is often raped, stripped, and sold on an
auction block.

From there a life of brutality, terror, and forced prostitution
awaits. IN ISRAEL, IT IS LEGAL TO BUY AND SELL SLAVES--AS LONG AS THEY
ARE NOT JEWISH.

If you doubt the veracity of any of these FACTS, read the articles
collected on this portal. Many are from &quo;PC&quo; sources;
collecting these rarely printed and seldom-seen articles from
&quo;&quo;PC&quo; sources was deliberate. We live in a very strange
time; the majority of our people have been cleverly conditioned since
birth to disbelieve warnings and FACTS presented by those who are
proud of their own extended family.

If you're White, your reaction at this point might be something like,
&quo;Huh?" If you can recover from the fact that you've been misled
your entire life and you DO care about the girls and women of your
extended family, you STILL might be reluctant to get the word out
about these CURRENT atrocities being committed against our
impoverished sisters. (They are impoverished due to Jewish communism;
read about it on this portal.)

Are you worried about our enemies snickering at the REALITY that
hundreds of thousands of White girls and women have literally become
sex slaves? I personally hope that anti-white haters do talk about and
even snicker and laugh loudly about the sex slaves. Hearing this might
wake some of our people up. Yes, the term &quo;sex slave" does have a
fantasy/fun connotation in our day, but in the case of hundreds of
thousands of our women, it's an accurate term.)

We need to understand that White slavery is not an aberration caused
by some &quo;bad" Jews; White slavery is the natural consequence of
the Jewish religion and mentality regarding non-Jews. The Old
Testament is one of the two most racist, hateful books ever written.
In it, the Jewish scriptwriters portray themselves as the "chosen"
people.

In the Old Testament, Yahweh, their tribal god, directs the Jews to
pillage and destroy gentiles (non-Jews) . Read it! (See especially
Deuteronomy 6, etc.; 7:2 and 7:16, etc. Deuteronomy 20:10 is
especially instructive for the topic of this article.)

The most hateful book ever written is the Talmud. It is considered the
holiest book of Judaism. Among other things, it states that only the
Jews are human beings. The Talmud promotes all manner of hatred
against non-Jews; this hatred includes enslavement and murder.

You can read about the Talmud and quotes from the Talmud at a &quo;PC"
source: http://www.truthbeknown.com/author.htm Go to the Religion and
Spirituality section. Enter Talmud into the search engine. You can
also read about the Talmud directly from the http://www.wcotc.com/
site. Dare to learn the truth!

Here's a quote that deals with our topic:

"A Jew may do to a non-Jewess what he can do. He may treat her as he
treats a piece of meat." (Hadrine, 20, B: Schulchan Aruch, Choszen
Hamiszpat 348.) Ever wonder why why campaigns against racism never
address this material? It is because the Jews have control of our
media, schools, and government. Don't take my word for it; you can
read about it from a transcript of a speech given by prominent Jewish
rebel. Refer to 6/9/01: A Jewish Defector Warns America.

If you do decide to spread the word and help White girls and women who
are being raped for profit, congratulations! Here are some tips:

1. Send this portal to 100 people; tell the people you send it to to
do the same, etc. (In particular, have them click on and read the TELL
100 PEOPLE....link.
2. Post the http://www.wcotc.com/jews/ address on USENET groups.
3. Tell people in chat rooms.
4. Here's a useful link on net activism:
http://www.creator.org/internet.html
5. Print up fliers and distribute them. Go to
http://www.churchfliers.com/ to find some online.

With the internet, we have a duty to let people all across the globe
know of this atrocity. Steven Spielburg will never make a movie about
it. (If he did, he would certainly use deception to hide the truth
that the so-called "Russian" mafia trafficking these girls and women
is run by Jews.)

If you think that somehow you can address this problem without
addressing the Jewish mentality responsible, then send out the AMNESTY
article on this subject. Write to your congressman and tell him or her
that you resent paying taxes toward funding Israel because it is an
apartheid, slave-holding state. (We send BILLIONS a year to Israel.)
For other things you can do see the FREE OUR WOMEN SITE

Understand that you will be attacked for merely pointing out these
FACTS. This is a natural consequence of allowing the Jews to develop a
monopoly on nearly ALL of our major news and entertainment media.

You will be verbally attacked for merely pointing out the words of the
Talmud. You will be chided for pointing out that Israel is engaging in
the massive enslavement of non-Jewish girls and women. You will be
told that this is all the doing of the so-called "Russian mafia" or
"Italian Mafia" or some other such nonsense. These mafias are run by
Jews, and the Jews have always dealt in the sale of human flesh.

The Jews were instrumental in bringing the African slaves to this
country. And yes, a minority of Southern Whites foolishly gave in to
the temptation to keep them enslaved. All races have enslaved others.
Which race ended slavery?

You will be taken to task for sending out a WCOTC portal. Whether you
agree with the WCOTC or not, I ask you this, are they not standing up
for our women? African Americans followed an openly anti-white,
anti-Jewish leader on the One Million Man March. Many claimed they did
not agree with the leader of that march on every subject. The subject
at hand is the systematic destruction of White girls and women; do you
agree this should be protested?

White people are the creators of great civilizations, sciences, and of
much great art. It is natural for us to be envied and hated; however,
it is NOT natural for us to be ashamed of our accomplishments and
allow our people to be robbed of our pride and liberty.

We developed in the lands of the North. The brutal conditions of the
Ice Ages forced us to become creators; we were compelled by necessity
to become inventors, planners, dreamers and doers. (See ASCENT OF THE
MIND by William H. Calvin.)
Life was harsh for our ancestors; they earned the right to their
pride. Our great people have made great errors over the course of our
history, but all in all we should feel an overwhelming sense of pride
in our accomplishments and our people.

Those who will attack you for defending OUR girls and women would rob
you of your pride. Taking away a people's pride is prelude to
enslavement.

Those who will attack us for educating our people would be happy to
take away our right to even verbally defend ourselves. They will tell
us that most Jews today do not believe such hate as is written in the
Talmud.

We need to tell them that the Jews who are not directly involved in
the White Slave Trade are not (with very rare exceptions) speaking out
against those that are. How many so-called modern Jews will continue
to support Israel knowing that thousands of innocent women are
enslaved there?
(A Jewish concentration camp survivor named Israel Shahak wrote a
crucial book revealing the Jews' hatred of non-Jews. It is called
JEWISH HISTORY; JEWISH RELIGION: THE WEIGHT OF 3000 YEARS. In it, you
will also learn how Jews are directed to lie about their beliefs, how
they edit English versions of the Talmud, etc.)

The ones who will attack you call themselves "anti-racists." They will
tell you this is not a racial issue; tell them that the Jews have made
it a racial issue: those are our women languishing under their
enslavement.

If our attackers were "anti-racists," they would be attacking Orthodox
Judiasm. They would have questioned Senator Lieberman on the racism
inherent in Judiasm during his campaigns. They would be seeking to
honestly determine just how deep-seated racism is in world Jewry. They
would have spoken out against comments like this one by Rabbi Yitzhak
Ginsburg: "We have to recognize that Jewish blood and the blood of a
goy (non-Jew) are not the same thing." (NY TIMES, June 6, 1989, p.5)

If our attackers were "anti-racists" they would be wondering why the
Jewish people, a tiny minority, feel it necessary to have complete
control of the banks, media, and politicians of the world. If our
attackers were "anti-racists' they would be calling to task the Jewish
communists for the murder of 20-30 millon "goys" during and after the
so-called communist revolution. They would honestly ask themselves
just why the Jews have been welcomed into and ultimately expelled from
so many nations over the course of so many centuries.

If these people were "anti-racists" they would be calling to task the
media for not making slavery against women in the year 2001 a HUGE
issue. If our attackers were "anti-racists" or "feminists" they
certainly would be demanding that the US government stop extorting
billions of taxpayer dollars per year to send to Israel, an apartheid,
racist, slave-holding state.

Most devastating of all is this fact: those who attack us for
spreading this news are making a choice: they have decided that it is
better to ignore the rape for profit and enslavement of women and
girls than to be called "anti-semites." When debating one of these
attackers, make sure he or she understands that this is the choice
that has been made.

The ones who attack us for trying to get the word out about White
Slavery at the hands of the Jewish mafia and the government of Israel
are not who they claim to be or even who they may think they are. They
are anti-white bigots who would deprive us of our pride and our
natural right to defend ourselves. Spread the word about the rape for
profit of our beautiful sisters.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Published in Free Speech - February 1998 - Volume IV, Number 2
Jews and the White Slave Trade
by Dr. William Pierce


(Steven Spielberg's pseudo-historical film about a 19th-century mutiny
and massacre aboard a Spanish slave ship, Amistad, and the subsequent
trial of the Black mutineers is being praised by the reviewers.
Spielberg, one of the wealthiest and most successful of Hollywood's
Jewish film makers, is also being praised by his kinsmen in various
so-called "human rights" organizations for using his propaganda skills
to sensitize White, Gentile audiences to the horrors of slavery and
make them feel just a little more guilty for treating non-Whites so
badly in the past. What the film doesn't mention, of course, is that
Spielberg's Jewish kinsmen owned many, though not all, of the ships
involved in the 18th- and 19th-century Atlantic trade in Black slaves
and, in fact, played a very prominent role in bringing Black slaves to
America.)

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The film tends to steer one away from blaming anyone for slavery
except White Gentiles. This bit of misdirection is interesting in
light of the fact that Jews have been dominant in the slave trade
since at least Roman times -- especially the trade in White slaves.
Jewish slave dealers followed Caesar's armies everywhere -- into Gaul,
into Germany, and into other northern lands -- eager to buy as slaves
all of the captives of the Romans -- especially the female captives.
Jews have remained dominant in the White slave trade until the present
day -- although during the Middle Ages the Christian Church tried
unsuccessfully a number of times to stop them, beginning in the fifth
century with an edict by the emperor Theodosius II against Jews owning
Christian slaves. After being banned from owning or dealing in slaves
by one emperor, the Jews would wait until the next emperor came along,
then they would buy a charter giving them a monopoly in the slave
trade. Then public outrage against the Jews would grow until another
emperor would ban their slave-dealing again. Most of the time,
however, the Jews were the undisputed masters of the White slave
trade, and that is still the case today.

Interestingly enough, this fact was revealed in a recent news report
in the Jewish newspaper the New York Times, of all places. The January
11 issue has a major article titled "Contraband Women" and written by
a Jewish reporter in Israel. The article deals specifically with the
Jewish trade in Ukrainian and Russian women -- although it doesn't
label the trade as "Jewish." What the report does say is this:

Centered in Moscow and the Ukrainian capital Kiev, the networks
trafficking women run east to Japan and Thailand, where thousands of
young Slavic women now work against their will as prostitutes, and
west to the Adriatic coast and beyond. The routes are controlled by
Russian crime gangs based in Moscow.
What the reader must understand is that these crime gangs don't have a
real Russian in them. They are entirely Jewish, but the agreed-upon
subterfuge used by the newspapers in this country is to refer to them
as "Russian" rather than as Jewish. Thus one reads in various news
organs about the recent takeover of organized crime in many areas of
America -- especially the East Coast and Los Angeles -- by "Russian
gangs" and of the viciousness and cleverness of these "Russian"
gangsters, but there is never any mention of the fact that they are
not Russians at all, but Jews from the former Soviet Union: Jews like
Mr. Clinton's supporter Vadim Rabinovich, photographed shaking hands
with Clinton at a Miami fundraiser when he was illegally in the United
States, as I mentioned in my broadcast of December 27, 1997.

The story of the exploitation of eastern Europe by the Jews is a
fascinating and infuriating story. Throughout the Middle Ages and into
the modern era they focused on profiting from the weaknesses and vices
of the Gentile populations of Poles, Russians, Ukrainians and others
among whom they lived as a barely tolerated minority. In addition to
being the moneylenders, they controlled the liquor business and owned
the drinking establishments, the gambling dens, and the brothels. A
number of 19th-century Russian writers, among them Dostoievski and
Gogol, have described their destructive effects on Slavic peasant
society and the perpetual condition of mutual hostility which existed
between the Jews and the Slavs.

During the 19th and early 20th centuries the Jewish trade in White
slaves from these lands expanded enormously. It has been described by
the Jewish historian Edward Bristow in his 1982 book Prostitution and
Prejudice, published by Oxford University Press and Schocken Books in
New York. Although Bristow's book is written from the viewpoint of one
opposed to this Jewish trade in women, it is nevertheless enormously
revealing. The Jews recruited peasant girls in Polish and Russian
villages, usually under false pretenses, and transported them to
brothels in Turkey, Egypt, and other parts of the Middle East; to
Vienna, Budapest, and other major cities in the Austro-Hungarian
Empire; and as far away as New York, New Orleans, and Buenos Aires.
This Jewish trade in Slavic women naturally caused a great deal of
hatred against the Jews by the Slavs, and this hatred broke out in
pogroms and other popular actions against the Jews over and over
again.

One would believe from the works of Mr. Spielberg and other Jewish
propagandists that the hatred the Slavs bore against the Jews was
based only on religious bigotry and that the Jews were completely
innocent and inoffensive. One fascinating fact which Bristow's book
reveals is that the center of the Jewish trade in Polish girls was in
a little town called Oswiecim. The German name for this town was
Auschwitz.

I don't mean to imply that the Jews were the only ones at fault in the
White slave trade. Gentile politicians and police officials gladly
accepted bribes from the Jews and in return allowed them to carry on
their dirty business. And in the United States non-Jewish criminal
elements such as the Mafia collaborated with the Jews or ran their own
White slave operations. But the trade in White slaves from eastern
Europe has been an exclusively Jewish activity for the last 200 years.

It is ironic that another Jewish enterprise, organized Marxism, put a
temporary crimp in the Jewish trade in Slavic women. When the Jewish
Bolsheviks...
...seized control of Russia and Ukraine after the First World War,
and of Poland and other Slavic lands after the Second World War, they
clamped down on all capitalist activity, including that of their
Jewish brethren in the White slave business. What they did instead was
establish a huge empire of slave-labor camps, of which Alexander
Solzhenitsyn has written so eloquently. Jewish slave dealers became
commissars and slave camp bosses. And of course, they butchered their
Gentile opponents by the millions. The time of communism was the Jews'
time for getting rid of all of the Russian and Ukrainian patriots, who
had hated them for so long.

Actually, some capitalist activity did survive throughout the
communist years in the form of organized crime. Two excellent books on
the subject were published in the United States, both written by
Soviet Jews thoroughly familiar with organized crime in the Soviet
Union. In fact, one of the authors, Yuri Brokhin, was a former member
of a Jewish organized crime gang in Russia, where he worked as a pimp.
His book, Hustling on Gorky Street, was published in 1975 by Dial
Press.

The other author, Konstantin Simis, was a Jewish defense lawyer for
organized Jewish criminals. His book, USSR: The Corrupt Society, was
published in 1982 by Simon and Schuster. Both of these Jewish authors
write quite frankly about the Jewish domination of organized crime
during the communist years. Brokhin brags about it, in fact. He says
Russians and other Slavs can only be ordinary criminals, depending on
guns and strong-arm tactics, but they aren't smart enough for
successful, large-scale organized crime; only Jews are smart enough
for that.

A factor neither author mentions which was more important than
smartness was the connections Jewish criminals had with Jewish
communists in the Soviet bureaucracy. When Abe, who ran a prostitution
and drug racket in Moscow, could count on his cousin Hymie in the
prosecutor's office to keep him informed about police plans for raids,
as well as a little covert assistance if matters ever came to court,
he had a distinct advantage over his Russian competitors.

Eventually communism bled eastern Europe dry, and with the economies
of the countries under their control on the verge of collapse the
communists switched hats, declared themselves "democrats" instead of
communists, and announced a return to capitalism. The Jewish slave
dealers went back into business, and business was good for them. Other
Jewish communists went into business too. As the economies were
"privatized" -- that is, as state-owned factories and businesses were
sold to private entrepreneurs at bargain-basement prices -- Jews used
their connections with their now-"democratic" kinsmen in the
bureaucracies to snap them up. Other Jews, who had monopolized
organized crime during the communist years, remained as organized
crime bosses but greatly expanded the scope of their operations.
Often, the new entrepreneurs and the new crime bosses are the same
people.

The richest man in Russia today is Boris Berezovsky, who since the
collapse of communism has become a multi-billionaire by buying up
banks, television networks, and newspapers from the government, with
the aid of his fellow Jews still in the bureaucracy. Berezovsky speeds
around Moscow in a bulletproof vest and an armored limousine, and
anyone who gets in the way of his business interests has a tendency to
get shot or simply to disappear. Second only to Berezovsky in wealth
is another Jewish media mogul, Vladimir Gusinsky. Between them,
Berezovsky and Gusinsky control most of the mass media in Russia. They
also exercise pretty thorough control of Boris Yeltsin, Russia's
alcoholic president, who is sort of a Slavic version of Bill Clinton,
plus vodka. It was only through the support of Berezovsky's and
Gusinsky's media that Yeltsin won his last election.

If you remember, Clinton and all of the Jewish media in the United
States also were rooting enthusiastically for Yeltsin during that
election. They all were afraid that a genuine Russian patriot might
beat Yeltsin, in which case the Jewish control of Russia would have
been finished.

After the election, Yeltsin appointed Berezovsky to Russia's national
security council, but when some of the few media in Russia which still
are independent publicized Berezovsky's connections to Jewish
organized crime gangs, Yeltsin was forced to fire him. Yeltsin has
made up for that, however, by appointing another Jew, Boris Nemtsov,
to the position of deputy prime minister, one of the most powerful
positions in the government. One thing Yeltsin never has done,
however, is make any move to curtail the operations of Russia's
organized Jewish crime gangs, which are running rampant through the
country and displaying their wealth and power, while ordinary Russians
struggle to feed themselves and keep their homes warm this winter.

And tens of thousands of pretty but naive young Russian and Ukrainian
women are being swept up by the Jewish gangs -- called "Russian" gangs
by the New York Times -- and shipped off to a life of misery and
degradation in Turkey, Pakistan, Thailand, and Israel, as well as to
countries in western Europe, where Jews also control organized crime.
The young women, unable to find work in Russia, Ukraine, or Poland and
facing a bleak future in countries ravaged by decades of communism,
are eager for any chance at a better life. They respond to
advertisements that offer them work abroad as receptionists or
secretaries and also promise free training and transportation. When
the girls arrive at their destinations, however, they find something
quite different -- but by then it is too late.
One of these girls, Irina, a 21-year-old, green-eyed Ukrainian blond,
was interviewed in Israel. She told how her Israeli employer took her
to a brothel soon after her arrival in Israel. He took her passport
away from her, burned it before her eyes, and told her that she now
was his property and must work in the brothel. When Irina refused, she
was beaten and raped. Luckier than most of the Slavic women lured to
Israel, Irina eventually was swept up in a police raid and sent to
prison as an illegal alien. She was awaiting deportation, along with
hundreds of other Russian and Ukrainian women, when she was
interviewed. She lamented the fact that the Israeli who had raped her
and forced her to work in the brothel was not even arrested. Indeed,
according to Jewish law, the rape of a Gentile woman is not illegal.
Nor is it illegal in Israel to buy and sell slaves, so long as the
slaves are not Jewish. Amazingly, the New York Times article reveals
this fact.

The White slave trade is big business in Israel. Ukrainian authorities
estimate that as many as 40,000 Ukrainian women under the age of 30
are taken from Ukraine each year. Some of these women respond to
advertisements promising employment abroad, like Irina did, and some
are simply kidnapped and smuggled out of the country. Those who try to
escape from their Jewish captors are treated brutally. Often they are
butchered in front of other captive women to keep the others terrified
into doing whatever they are told. At slave markets operated by the
Jewish gangs in Italy young Slavic women are stripped, put on blocks,
and auctioned off to brothel owners.

The most astounding thing about this whole, filthy business is that
most people are forced to learn about it from a Jewish newspaper like
the New York Times. And really, you should read for yourself the
article to which I referred. It was in the January 11, 1998, issue,
and the news is not likely to be repeated.

Ask yourself, why doesn't Interpol, the international police agency,
do something to put a stop to this White slave trade? Why don't the
governments of the countries from which the women are being abducted
do something? Why don't the mass media raise a hue and cry? Why don't
powerful feminist organizations demand the eradication of White
slavery?

And the answer to all of these questions is easy: they dare not do or
say anything because it is a Jewish business. In places like Germany,
where the Jews have almost total control of organized crime, anyone
who announces that fact publicly will be arrested and charged with
"inciting racial hatred." Germany and most other European countries
have laws against what they call "hate speech." Saying anything
negative about Jews, true or not, invokes these laws.

Jewish organizations -- and of course, the Clinton administration --
would like very much to have similar laws in the United States.
Interpol, which has plenty of other work to keep it busy, is not eager
to be charged with "anti-Semitism" by going after the Jewish
White-slave gangs. Even if Interpol did arrest the gangsters, it
wouldn't do much good, because the fix is in nearly everywhere.
There's a huge amount of money made from selling women: enough money
to pay off politicians, bureaucrats, judges, and policemen.

Jews like to say about the so-called "Holocaust" of the Second World
War, "Never again." They like to talk about how it is necessary to
stamp out anti-Semitism and pass laws against so-called "hate speech,"
so that there can never be another "Holocaust." But by their own
behavior they guarantee that there will be.

While some Jews beat the drums for more reparations payments from
Switzerland, Germany, France, and other countries they claim didn't
treat them right or took some of their ill-gotten gold from them 55 or
60 years ago, other Jews are still bleeding countries like Poland,
Ukraine, Russia, and the Baltic nations of money and of their young
women. Countries which suffered for decades under the brutal rule of
communist commissars are still being exploited by the same people, now
calling themselves "democrats."

The Jews believe that with their deathgrip on the mass media nearly
everywhere, with their puppets -- like Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin
-- in positions of power in the East and in the West, with the
enormous wealth they have at their disposal, and with so many Gentiles
buffaloed by "Holocaust" propaganda of the sort cranked out by Steven
Spielberg and a hundred others, they can keep getting away with their
exploitation of us forever. But they are wrong. They themselves are
building up the hatred and the resentment and the rage which will
destroy them. It will destroy them all: the gang members, the media
bosses, the "advisers" to Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin, the
professional "Holocaust" wailers, the former commissars, and the rest,
even those who are not currently involved in any of these activities.
They are guaranteeing that there will be another "Holocaust." And this
time it will be a real one.

Thanks for being with me again today -- and do find and read that
article on the White slave trade in the January 11, 1998, New York
Times.

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Source: The New York Times, Sunday, January 11, 1998
Jews Pimp Innocent White Women!
Traffickers' New Cargo: Naive Slavic Women
by Michael Specter

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RAMLE, Israel -- Irina always assumed that her beauty would somehow
rescue her from the poverty and hopelessness of village life. A few
months ago, after answering a vague ad in a small Ukrainian newspaper,
she slipped off a tour boat when it put in at Haifa, hoping to make a
bundle dancing naked on the tops of tables.

She was 21, self-assured and glad to be out of Ukraine. Israel offered
a new world, and for a week or two everything seemed possible. Then,
one morning, she was driven to a brothel, where her boss burned her
passport before her eyes.

"I own you," she recalled his saying. "You are my property, and you
will work until you earn your way out. Don't try to leave. You have no
papers and you don't speak Hebrew. You will be arrested and deported.
Then we will get you and bring you back."

It happens every single day. Not just in Israel, which has deported
nearly 1,500 Russian and Ukrainian women like Irina in the past three
years. But throughout the world, where selling naive and desperate
young women into sexual bondage has become one of the fastest-growing
criminal enterprises in the robust global economy.

The international bazaar for women is hardly new, of course. Asians
have been its basic commodity for decades. But economic hopelessness
in the Slavic world has opened what experts call the most lucrative
market of all to criminal gangs that have flourished since the fall of
Communism: Eastern European women with little to sustain them but
their dreams. Pimps, law-enforcement officials and relief groups all
agree that Ukrainian and Russian women are now the most valuable in
the trade.

Because their immigration is often illegal -- and because some
percentage of the women choose to work as prostitutes -- statistics
are difficult to assess. But the United Nations estimates that 4
million people throughout the world are trafficked each year -- forced
through lies and coercion to work against their will in many types of
servitude. The International Organization for Migration has said that
as many as 500,000 women are annually trafficked into Western Europe
alone.

Many end up like Irina. Stunned and outraged by the sudden order to
prostitute herself, she simply refused. She was beaten and raped
before she succumbed. Finally she got a break. The brothel was raided,
and she was brought here to Neve Tirtsa in Ramle, the only women's
prison in Israel. Now, like hundreds of Ukrainian and Russian women
with no documents or obvious forgeries, she is waiting to be sent
home.

"I don't think the man who ruined my life will even be fined," she
said softly, slow tears filling her enormous green eyes. "You can call
me a fool for coming here. That's my crime. I am stupid. A stupid girl
from a little village. But can people really buy and sell women and
get away with it? Sometimes I sit here and ask myself if that really
happened to me, if it can really happen at all."

Then, waving her arm toward the muddy prison yard, where Russian is
spoken more commonly than Hebrew, she whispered one last thought: "I'm
not the only one, you know. They have ruined us all."

Traffic Patterns: Russia and Ukraine Supply the Flesh

Centered in Moscow and the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, the networks
trafficking women run east to Japan and Thailand, where thousands of
young Slavic women now work against their will as prostitutes, and
west to the Adriatic Coast and beyond. The routes are controlled by
Russian crime gangs based in Moscow. Even when they do not
specifically move the women overseas, they provide security,
logistical support, liaison with brothel owners in many countries and,
usually, false documents.

Women often start their hellish journey by choice. Seeking a better
life, they are lured by local advertisements for good jobs in foreign
countries at wages they could never imagine at home.

In Ukraine alone, the number of women who leave is staggering. As many
as 400,000 women under 30 have gone in the past decade, according to
their country's interior ministry. The Thai Embassy in Moscow, which
processes visa applications from Russia and Ukraine, says it receives
nearly 1,000 visa applications a day, most of these from women.

Israel is a fairly typical destination. Prostitution is not illegal
here, although brothels are, and with 250,000 foreign male workers --
most of whom are single or here without their wives -- the demand is
great. Police officials estimate that there are 25,000 paid sexual
transactions every day. Brothels are ubiquitous.

None of the women seem to realize the risks they run until it is too
late. Once they cross the border their passports will be confiscated,
their freedoms curtailed and what little money they have taken from
them at once.

"You want to tell these kids that if something seems too good to be
true it usually is," said Lyudmilla Biryuk, a Ukrainian psychologist
who has counseled women who have escaped or been released from
bondage. "But you can't imagine what fear and real ignorance can do to
a person."

The women are smuggled by car, bus, boat and plane. Handed off in the
dead of night, many are told they will pick oranges, work as dancers
or as waitresses. Others have decided to try their luck at
prostitution, usually for what they assume will be a few lucrative
months. They have no idea of the violence that awaits them.

The efficient, economically brutal routine -- whether here in Israel,
or in one of a dozen other countries -- rarely varies. Women are held
in apartments, bars and makeshift brothels; there they service, by
their own count, as many as 15 clients a day. Often they sleep in
shifts, four to a bed. The best that most hope for is to be deported
after the police finally catch up with their captors.

Few ever testify. Those who do risk death. Last year in Istanbul,
Turkey, according to Ukrainian police investigators, two women were
thrown to their deaths from a balcony while six of their Russian
friends watched.

In Serbia, also last year, said a young Ukrainian woman who escaped in
October, a woman who refused to work as a prostitute was beheaded in
public.

In Milan, Italy, a week before Christmas, the police broke up a ring
that was holding auctions in which women abducted from the countries
of the former Soviet Union were put on blocks, partially naked, and
sold at an average price of just under $1,000.

"This is happening wherever you look now," said Michael Platzer, the
Vienna, Austria-based head of operations for the U.N.'s Center for
International Crime Prevention. "The Mafia is not stupid. There is
less law enforcement since the Soviet Union fell apart and more
freedom of movement. The earnings are incredible. The overhead is low
-- you don't have to buy cars and guns. Drugs you sell once and they
are gone. Women can earn money for a long time."

"Also," he added, "the laws help the gangsters. Prostitution is
semilegal in many places and that makes enforcement tricky. In most
cases punishment is very light."

In some countries, Israel among them, there is not even a specific law
against the sale of human beings.

Platzer said that although certainly "tens of thousands" of women were
sold into prostitution each year, he was uncomfortable with statistics
since nobody involved has any reason to tell the truth.

"But if you want to use numbers," he said, "think about this. Two
hundred million people are victims of contemporary forms of slavery."
"Most aren't prostitutes, of course, but children in sweatshops,
domestic workers, migrants. During four centuries, 12 million people
were believed to be involved in the slave trade between Africa and the
New World. The 200 million -- and many of course are women who are
trafficked for sex -- is a current figure. It's happening now. Today."

Distress Calls: Far-Flung Victims Provide Few Clues

The distress call came from Donetsk, the bleak center of coal
production in southern Ukraine. A woman was screaming on the telephone
line. Her sister and a friend were prisoners in a bar somewhere near
Rome. They spoke no Italian and had no way out, but had managed,
briefly, to get hold of a man's cell phone.

"Do you have any idea where they are, exactly?" asked Olga Shved, who
runs La Strada in Kiev, Ukraine's new center dedicated to fighting the
trafficking of women in Eastern Europe and the countries of the former
Soviet Union.

The woman's answer was no. Ms. Shved began searching for files and
telephone numbers of the local consul, the police, anybody who could
help.

"Do they know how far from Rome they are?" she asked, her voice
tightening with each word. "What about the name of the street or the
bar? Anything will help," she said, jotting notes furiously as she
spoke. "We can get the police on this, but we need something. If they
call back, tell them to give us a clue. The street number. The number
of a bus that runs past. One thing is all we need."

Ms. Shved hung up and called officials at Ukraine's Interior Ministry
and the Foreign Ministry. Her conversations were short, direct and
obviously a routine part of her job.

That is because Ukraine -- and to a lesser degree its Slavic neighbors
Russia and Belarus -- has replaced Thailand and the Philippines as the
epicenter of the global business in trafficking women. The Ukrainian
problem has been worsened by a ravaged economy, an atrophied system of
law enforcement, and criminal gangs that grow more brazen each year.
Young European women are in demand, and Ukraine, a country of 51
million people, has a seemingly endless supply. It is not that hard to
see why.

Neither Russia nor Ukraine reports accurate unemployment statistics.
But even partial numbers present a clear story of chaos and economic
dislocation. Federal employment statistics in Ukraine indicate that
more than two-thirds of the unemployed are women. The government also
keeps another statistic: employed but not working. Those are people
who technically have jobs, and can use company amenities like day-care
centers and hospitals. But they do not work or get paid.
Three-quarters are women. And of those who have lost their jobs since
the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, more than 80 percent are women.

The average salary in Ukraine today is slightly less than $30 a month,
but it is half that in the small towns that criminal gangs favor for
recruiting women to work abroad. On average, there are 30 applicants
for every job in most Ukrainian cities. There is no real hope; but
there is freedom.

In that climate, looking for work in foreign countries has
increasingly become a matter of survival.

"It's no secret that the highest prices now go for the white women,"
said Marco Buffo, executive director of On the Road, an
antitrafficking organization in northern Italy. "They are the novelty
item now. It used to be Nigerians and Asians at the top of the market.
Now it's the Ukrainians."

Economics is not the only factor causing women to flee their
homelands. There is also social reality. For the first time, young
women in Ukraine and Russia have the right, the ability and the
willpower to walk away from their parents and their hometowns. Village
life is disintegrating throughout much of the former Soviet world, and
youngsters are grabbing any chance they can find to save themselves.

"After the wall fell down, the Ukrainian people tried to live in the
new circumstances," said Ms. Shved. "It was very hard, and it gets no
easier. Girls now have few opportunities yet great freedom. They see
'Pretty Woman,' or a thousand movies and ads with the same point, that
somebody who is rich can save them. The glory and ease of wealth is
almost the basic point of the Western advertising that we see. Here
the towns are dying. What jobs there are go to men. So they leave."

First, however, they answer ads from employment agencies promising to
find them work in a foreign country. Here again, Russian crime gangs
play a central role. They often recruit people through seemingly
innocuous "mail order bride" meetings. Even when they do not, few such
organizations can operate without paying off one gang or another.
Sometimes want ads are almost honest, suggesting that the women can
earn up to $1,000 a month as "escorts" abroad. Often they are vague or
blatantly untrue.

Recruiting Methods: Ads Make Offers Too Good To Be True

One typical ad used by traffickers in Kiev last year read: "Girls:
Must be single and very pretty. Young and tall. We invite you for work
as models, secretaries, dancers, choreographers, gymnasts. Housing is
supplied. Foreign posts available. Must apply in person."

One young woman who did, and made it back alive, described a harrowing
journey. "I met with these guys, and they asked if I would work at a
strip bar," she said. "Why not, I thought. They said we would have to
leave at once. We went by car to the Slovak Republic where they
grabbed my passport. I think they got me new papers there, but
threatened me if I spoke out. We made it to Vienna, then to Turkey. I
was kept in a bar and I was told I owed $5,000 for my travel. I worked
for three days, and on the fourth I was arrested."

Lately, the ads have started to disappear from the main cities --
where the realities of such offers are known now. These days the
appeals are made in the provinces, where their success is
undiminished.

Most of the thousands of Ukrainian women who go abroad each year are
illegal immigrants who do not work in the sex business. Often they
apply for a legal visa -- to dance, or work in a bar -- and then stay
after it expires.

Many go to Turkey and Germany, where Russian crime groups are
particularly powerful. Israeli leaders say that Russian women -- they
tend to refer to all women from the former Soviet Union as Russian --
disappear off tour boats every day. Officials in Italy estimate that
at least 30,000 Ukrainian women are employed illegally there now.

Most are domestic workers, but a growing number are prostitutes, some
of them having been promised work as domestics only to find out their
jobs were a lie. Part of the problem became clear in a two-year study
recently concluded by the Washington-based nonprofit group Global
Survival Network: Police officials in many countries just don't care.

The network, after undercover interviews with gangsters, pimps and
corrupt officials, found that local police forces -- often those best
able to prevent trafficking -- are least interested in helping.

Gillian Caldwell of Global Survival Network has been deeply involved
in the study. "In Tokyo," she said, "a sympathetic senator arranged a
meeting for us with senior police officials to discuss the growing
prevalence of trafficking from Russia into Japan. The police insisted
it wasn't a problem, and they didn't even want the concrete
information we could have provided. That didn't surprise local relief
agencies, who cited instances in which police had actually sold
trafficked women back to the criminal networks which had enslaved
them."

Official Reactions: Best-Placed To Help, but Least Inclined

Complacency among police agencies is not uncommon.

"Women's groups want to blow this all out of proportion," said Gennadi
Lepenko, chief of Kiev's branch of Interpol, the international police
agency. "Perhaps this was a problem a few years ago. But it's under
control now."

That is not the view at Ukraine's parliament -- which is trying to
pass new laws to protect young women -- or at the Interior Ministry.

"We have a very serious problem here, and we are simply not equipped
to solve it by ourselves," said Mikhail Lebed, chief of criminal
investigations for the Ukrainian Interior Ministry. "It is a human
tragedy, but also, frankly, a national crisis. Gangsters make more
from these women in a week than we have in our law-enforcement budget
for the whole year. To be honest, unless we get some help we are not
going to stop it."

But solutions will not be simple. Criminal gangs risk little by
ferrying women out of the country; indeed, many of the women go
voluntarily. Laws are vague, cooperation between countries rare and
punishment of traffickers almost nonexistent. Without work or much
hope of a future at home, an eager teen-ager will find it hard to
believe that the promise of a job in Italy, Turkey or Israel is almost
certain to be worthless.

"I answered an ad to be a waitress," said Tamara, 19, a Ukrainian
prostitute in a massage parlor near Tel Aviv's old Central Bus
Station, a Russian-language ghetto for the cheapest brothels. "I'm not
sure I would go back now if I could. What would I do there, stand on a
bread line or work in a factory for no wages?"

Tamara, like all other such women interviewed for this article, asked
that her full name not be published. She has classic Slavic features,
with long blond hair and deep green eyes. She turned several potential
customers away so she could speak at length with a reporter. She was
willing to talk as long as her boss was out. She said she was not
watched closely while she remained within the garish confines of the
"health club."

"I didn't plan to do this," she said, looking sourly at the rich red
walls and leopard prints around her. "They took my passport, so I
don't have much choice. But they do give me money. And believe me,
it's better than anything I could ever get at home."

Yitzhak Tyler, the chief of undercover activities for the Haifa
police, is a big, open-faced man who doesn't mince words.

"We got a hell of a problem on our hands," he said. The port city of
200,000 has become the easiest entryway for women brought to Israel to
work as prostitutes -- though by no means the only one. Sometimes they
walk off tour boats, but increasingly they come with forged documents
that enable them to live and work in Israel. These have often been
bought or stolen from elderly Jewish women in Russia or Ukraine.

"This is a sophisticated, global operation," Tyler said. "It's evil,
and it's successful because the money is so good. These men pay $500
to $1,000 for a Ukrainian or Russian woman. Do you understand what I
am telling you? They will buy these women and make a fortune out of
them."

To illustrate his point, Tyler grabbed a black calculator and started
calling out the sums as he punched them in.

"Take a small place," he said, "with 10 girls. Each has 15 to 20
clients a day. Multiply that by say 200 shekels. So say 30,000 shekels
a day comes in to each place. Each girl works 25 days a month.
Minimum."

Tyler was busy doing math as he spoke. "So we are talking about
750,000 shekels a month, or about $215,000. A man often owns five of
these places. That's a million dollars. No taxes, no real overhead.
It's a factory with slave labor. And we've got them all over Israel."

The Tropicana, in Tel Aviv's bustling business district, is one of the
busiest bordellos. The women who work there, like nearly all
prostitutes in Israel today, are Russian. Their boss, however, is not.

"Israelis love Russian girls," said Jacob Golan, who owns this and two
other clubs, and spoke willingly about the business he finds so
"successful." "They are blonde and good-looking and different from
us," he said, chuckling as he drew his hand over his black hair. "And
they are desperate. They are ready to do anything for money."

Always filled with half-naked Russian women, the club is open around
the clock. There is a schedule on the wall next to the receptionist --
with each woman's hours listed in a different color, and the days and
shifts rotating, as at a restaurant or a bar. Next to the schedule a
sign reads, "We don't accept checks." Next to that there is a poster
for a missing Israeli woman.

There are 12 cubicles at the Tropicana where 20 women work in shifts,
eight during the daytime, 12 at night. Business is always booming, and
not just with foreign workers. Israeli soldiers, with rifles on their
shoulders, frequent the place, as do business executives and tourists.

Golan was asked if most women who work at the club do so voluntarily.
He laughed heartily.

"I don't get into that," he said, staring vacantly across his club at
four Russian women sitting on a low couch. "They are brought here and
told to work. I don't force them. I pay them. What goes on between
them and the men they are with, how could that be my problem?"

Deterrent Strategies: A System that Fails Those Who Testify

Every once in a while, usually with great fanfare and plenty of
advance notice, Golan gets raided. He pays a fine, and the women
without good false documents are taken to prison.

If they are deported, the charges against them are dropped. But if a
woman wants to file a complaint, then she must remain in prison until
a trial is held. "In the past four years," Betty Lahan, prison
director of Neve Tirtsa here, said, "I don't know of a single case
where a woman chose to testify."

Such punitive treatment of victims is the rule rather than the
exception. In Italy, where the police say killings of women forced
into prostitution average one a month, parliament tried to create a
sort of witness protection program. But it only allowed women to stay
in the country for one year and did nothing to hide their identities.

"The deck is just so completely stacked against the women in all
this," said Daniella Pompei, an immigration specialist with the
community of Sant'Egidio, the Catholic relief agency in Rome. "The
police is the last place these women want to go." She said that only
20 women had ever used the protection program.

It is not clear who will stop the mob. On a trip to Ukraine late last
year, Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke out about the new slave trade that
has developed so rapidly there. The United States and the European
Union have plans to work together to educate young women about the
dangers of working abroad. Other initiatives, like stays of
deportation for prisoners, victims' shelters and counseling, have also
been discussed.

"I don't care about any of that," said Lena, a young Latvian, one of
the inmates waiting to be deported here. "I just want to know one
thing. How will I ever walk down the street like a human being again?"


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Price of a Woman
Are police involved in Israel's growing traffic in women?
Is the establishment turning a blind eye?
By Aryeh Dayan

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At the Beit Berl, shocking facts were revealed by spokesmen for the
police and public organizations that are fighting prostitution and
trafficking in women.(Photo: Ariel Schalit)

A police van will be setting out sometime in the next day or two from
the Neve Tirza women's prison near Ramle. It will head for Ben-Gurion
International Airport, where the young woman in the back of the van
will board a Russian passenger plane. The policemen will hand her a
new Russian passport issued by the Russian embassy in Tel Aviv, and
will make sure she gets on the plane and leaves the country. And once
she takes off for Russia, no one here will be able to judge the
credibility of the disturbing story she told the few Israelis who had
tried to help her.The Israel Police has taken steps to speed up her
deportation, even though they should be greatly interested in the full
details of her tale. For if the story is correct, it is altogether
possible that some of her blue-uniformed escorts are part of a covert
operation in which women are bought and sold into sexual slavery.

She told her story at Neve Tirza to volunteers for the Hotline for
Detained Foreign Workers. Sigal Rozen, chair of the hotline, recounted
her story at a conference held last weekend at the Beit Berl College,
"Prostitution, Trafficking in Women and the Establishment in Israel."

The woman, who is to be deported from Israel this week (Rozen was only
willing to identify her by the fictitious name "Larissa"), has Russian
citizenship and arrived in Israel about six months ago.

Larissa told the hotline's volunteers that shortly before her arrival,
she read an ad in a local newspaper in Russia, offering work to young
Russian women as au pairs in Israel. She contacted the advertisers,
who explained that Israeli law forbade her from working there, and
that they would have to prepare forged documents for her and smuggle
her into Israel via Egypt. Larissa said the explanation sounded
convincing. She was flown to Cairo and transported from there via the
Sinai Desert to an area close to the border with Israel, where she was
led on foot by Bedouin smugglers into the Negev. She was then picked
up by a man who drove her to Tel Aviv.

At this point, she stiA police van will be setting out sometime in the
next day or two from the Neve Tirza women's prison near Ramle. It will
head for Ben-Gurion International Airport, where the young woman in
the back of the van will board a Russian passenger plane. The
policemen will hand her a new Russian passport issued by the Russian
embassy in Tel Aviv, and will make sure she gets on the plane and
leaves the country. And once she takes off for Russia, no one here
will be able to judge the credibility of the disturbing story she told
the few Israelis who had tried to help her.The Israel Police has taken
steps to speed up her deportation, even though they should be greatly
interested in the full details of her tale. For if the story is
correct, it is altogether possible that some of her blue-uniformed
escorts are part of a covert operation in which women are bought and
sold into sexual slavery.

She told her story at Neve Tirza to volunteers for the Hotline for
Detained Foreign Workers. Sigal Rozen, chair of the hotline, recounted
her story at a conference held last weekend at the Beit Berl College,
"Prostitution, Trafficking in Women and the Establishment in Israel."

The woman, who is to be deported from Israel this week (Rozen was only
willing to identify her by the fictitious name "Larissa"), has Russian
citizenship and arrived in Israel aboull believed that she had been
brought to Israel to work as an au pair, but in Tel Aviv the truth
came out: Russian smugglers sold her to an Israeli pimp, who took her
forged documents away and coerced her, amid physical force and
threats, to engage in prostitution.

Rozen says that until this point, Larissa's story is no different from
those of numerous other women brought to Israel from the Commonwealth
of Independent States. Some were brought on fraudulent grounds; others
knew in advance that they would be working as prostitutes.

However, Larissa's story takes a surprising twist, which, if true,
casts a crimson stain on the Israel Police. Larissa told the hotline
volunteers that she eventually managed to escape from her pimp. She
hid from him in various places, but some time afterward was arrested
by the police. She told the volunteers that she was in fact rather
pleased to be placed under arrest, assuming it would spell the end of
her misery here.

Sold to another pimp

"To her great horror," Rozen told the gathering at Beit Berl - which
included the police commander of the Tel Aviv district, Chief
Superintendent Yossi Sedbon, who did not visibly react to the story -
"she was taken by one of the policemen to another city, where she was
transferred, for a fistful of dollars, to another pimp. She
subsequently learned that that same pimp to whom the policeman sold
her had once worked for the police."

Rozen's version of events is based solely on what she heard from
Larissa. The police, she added, have no record of her arrest. And as
far as the police are concerned, Rozen went on, "that is the proof
that she is lying." Later on, Larissa managed to run away from the
second pimp as well, and worked for a while as a waitress. After she
was arrested for a second time - again, without any documents - she
was brought to Neve Tirza prison.

Larissa told the hotline volunteers that she was prepared to testify
to the police or in court against the two pimps. But Rozen says the
police were not anxious to hear her evidence. The police investigator
assigned to Larissa's case explained to Rozen that "in her two
arrests, she failed to lodge any complaint against the pimps. Only
after her incarceration in prison did she suddenly remember her
willingness to testify against them."

It took three weeks for the investigator to find time to see her in
Neve Tirza and take down her statement. The police will not use her
testimony to indict the two pimps. Rozen claims the officer told her
that "Larissa did engage in prostitution, but the tall tale that she's
selling - that she was sold to a pimp by a policeman - is completely
fabricated."

Representatives of the Interior Ministry, who also interrogated her in
prison, reached a different conclusion. "Larissa," the ministry
employees determined, "was not engaged in prostitution at all, but in
the drug trade." However, they concurred with the police's contention
that "her entire story is made up." Larissa continually said that she
would be able to identify the policeman who sold her to the second
pimp; the police continued to disregard her. At the end of last week,
after she was issued a new passport by the Russian consul, the police
determined that she would be deported this week.

The Beit Berl conference, which was jointly arranged by the college's
department of social sciences and a consortium of public organizations
that are fighting prostitution and trafficking in women, pitted two
members of the establishment who were invited to take part - Chief
Superintendent Sedbon and attorney Anat Savidor, a senior deputy
prosecutor for the central district - face to face with the harsh
criticism leveled by members of the women's lobby. The latter group
included Dr. Arella Shadmi, a sociologist who investigates police
handling of violence against women, and representatives of several
organizations: Women's Equality Representation, the New Masculinity
Movement and We Are Equals.


Harsh reality

At one session of the conference, six women engaged in prostitution
took the podium. Their remarks may have been representative of a harsh
social reality, but what they had to say was jumbled and unfocused.
None of them related to the issue of trafficking in women from
overseas. Statements made by participants at other sessions left the
impression that Israel is becoming a center of trafficking in women, a
phenomenon that is taking its place in the world's consciousness as
the "slavery of the 21st century."

In a booklet published by the Toda'ah (consciousness) Institute, an
Israeli organization that is affiliated with the World Coalition
Against Trafficking in Women, the editors state that four million
women and children are smuggled each year for the purpose of
prostitution. Approximately 700,000 are smuggled to the United States,
and at least 3,000 are smuggled to Israel. When compared to the
overall populations the United States and Israel, the Toda'ah booklet
points out, the dimensions of the problem in Israel are 2.5 times
worse than in America.

A police report filed last year states that in Tel Aviv alone, there
are about 150 houses of prostitution in which foreign women are
forcibly employed. But at the conference, Chief Superintendent Sedbon
estimated that that number has now topped 200.

"There is widespread import of women, primarily from the Ukraine,
Azerbaijan, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Turkey, the Dominican Republic,
Brazil, and lately, South Africa as well," the conference organizers
wrote in a position paper distributed at the gathering. "Based on the
statements of the women, it seems that about 30 percent of them did
not know that they would be occupied as prostitutes, but rather that
they were assured employment as babysitters, medical masseuses, models
or waitresses."

"And the remaining 70 percent never imagined the conditions in which
they would be employed. According to many statements, when they arrive
in Israel they go through an 'educational seminar' that includes rape
and sale by auction, after which their passports are taken from them
and they are imprisoned in sealed apartments. They are forced to work
in prostitution in order to repay the 'debt' incurred in bringing them
to Israel.
They and their families abroad are threatened that if they try to
escape, they will be caught by the police, and when, after several
months they have 'repaid' their debt, they are sold to another house
of prostitution, and a new 'debt' is created."

Chief Superintendent Sedbon confirmed that this is in fact the case.
He was even able to provide additional details. Sedbon spoke in a calm
and even bemused tone of voice, as if he were describing a phenomenon
that he himself had nothing to do with. His statements, which were
intended to defend the establishment against the claim that it is
shutting its eyes to the problem, actually became the mainstay of the
indictment.

"The price of a woman in Tel Aviv today," said the commander of the
Tel Aviv district, "varies between $5,000 and $15,000. It depends on
her looks and the quality of the forged documents in her possession.
Anyone who thinks the phenomenon can be eliminated doesn't know what
he's talking about. We have deported blond women and they came back as
brunettes. We have deported brunettes, and they came back as blondes.
It is impossible to hermetically seal all of the transfer points. Last
year, about 2,000 travelers at Ben-Gurion Airport were denied entry,
but the traffickers know we are looking for women who look like
prostitutes, so the women arrive not looking like prostitutes."

Greater enforcement at the airport, said Sedbon, would not help. Some
of the women arrive aboard tourist ships that anchor in Haifa and
Ashdod; others are smuggled through the Sinai. "There have even been
instances of women who swam from Taba to Eilat," he said.

Sedbon claimed that the police are trying to fight the phenomenon, but
gave the impression that he had come to terms with its continued
existence. One must understand that the situation has expanded over
the past decade, in part due to laws of supply and demand, he
explained. "There are now about 200,000 foreign workers and tens of
thousands of Palestinians living in the Tel Aviv area. What can you
do? They simply need sex services."
Sold for $15,000
Following are three of the statements that were read at the
conference:

"I am Ilona. I was sold for $15,000, and a few months later I was sold
once more. They forced me to accept 150 clients a week. Lots of people
knew about me and the other girls. There were taxi drivers and people
from the grocery store who brought alcohol, and also the (women)
doctors who gave us pills against pregnancy - take them all month
long, so that we wouldn't lose any work because of the blood. And the
doctors checked us after we were beaten and gave us painkillers. But
the worst thing happened with the policemen who knew about me. One
time I managed to run away and went to the police. They referred me to
a policeman who knew Russian, and I spoke with him and he listened
very intently. An hour after he listened so intently my boss, the
pimp, arrived at the station and took me home and there he gave me the
worst beating, so that all the girls would see what happens if you run
away. After that, I couldn't work for a few days."

"I am Yanna. At the airport I was picked up by Ilyosha. I had six or
seven clients a day on Ben-Yehuda, and I made him NIS 600-700 a day. I
got food, cigarettes and NIS 20 a day. After two weeks, he sold me to
Peter and Gershon, and I worked for a month at their massage parlor -
10 or 15 clients a day, NIS 150 for half an hour, and for me - NIS 20
a day, food and cigarettes. After two months, Peter sent me to another
bar.

Whenever I wasn't working I was locked in an apartment, and they
brought me whatever I needed. Peter said that I could go after I had
made $40,000 for him. I had between 7 and 10 clients a day at the bar,
and there I had to earn NIS 700. If I had a slow day, I had to work
harder the next day. They also beat me at the massage parlor - the
employees and the manager. But I met someone there from Ramallah, and
ran away with him. After a few months, we went to Cyprus and got
married. I brought the marriage papers to the Interior Ministry, but
the clerk there said that if I didn't have enough toilet paper, I
could wipe my ass with the papers."

Sigal Rozen, chairperson of the Hotline for Detained Foreign Workers:
"Before the hearing in court, I went to the prosecutor's office.
Yalena refused to testify in front of the defendants, but the
prosecutor was insistent. ... If a woman wasn't interested in
testifying in front of her pimps, she had to emphasize the fact that
she had been raped by the pimp. Yalena had also been forced to have
sex with the pimp, but he gave her NIS 20, so she did not consider it
rape.

"On the way to court I asked if there was a chance that either of them
would receive the maximum sentence allowed by law. The prosecutor was
amazed, and said, "What are you talking about? If they get anything at
all, it won't be for trafficking; it'll be for the other offenses.

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Source: Ha'aretz
Amnesty International Criticizes Israel
Over Trade of Women
By Einat Fishbain, Ha'aretz Correspondent

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In a report to be published today by Amnesty International, the
human-rights organization is scathing in its comments on Israeli
authorities' responsibility for the local proliferation of the
phenomenon of "traded women," in which women from abroad are lured to
Israel under false pretenses and then enslaved as prostitutes in
brothels.

"The traded women come in contact with many Israeli government
agencies, but there seems to be no clear policy in fighting these
violations of human rights," Amnesty noted in its report.

The report, the product of a special investigation conducted last
spring, adds, "The government of Israel failed to take appropriate
steps to prevent, investigate, try and punish those responsible for
the violations of human rights commited against traded women."
The report marks the first time that Amnesty International has turned
its investigative eye toward "trade" in women. Israel was chosen as
the group's first case study. Hundreds of women are smuggled into
Israel annually, most from the former Soviet Union. The presence of a
large community of immigrants from those countries facilitates their
illicit entry and stay in Israel.

The case of "Valentina," 27, is a typical one. She was offered a job
as a company representative by an Israeli who made all the necessary
arrangements. He received her at the airport and the next day took her
passport, money and return ticket and transferred her to an apartment
- where she realized that she had been brought to Israel to work as a
prostitute.
"The conditions were horrible," she says. "Most of the girls suffered
from venereal diseases. There was nowhere to run - there were bars on
the windows and guards all the time, day and night." Eventually she
jumped from the first floor of the building in order to escape.

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Source: The Sydney Morning Herald | March 8, 2001


Ticket to Nowhere
Russian women are sought after for the international sex trade.
by Craig Nelson

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Above, A Russian poster that says "Try West".


Russian girls are being lured to richer countries with the promise of
a new life, only to find the reality is a locked room and 20 tricks a
day. Craig Nelson reports.

Mariana had to admit that her friend had a point when she said: "Why
stay here?" They'd both grown up in Chelyabinsk, Russia, a
soot-encrusted city in the southern Urals, heart of one of the most
polluted regions on earth and shrouded much of the year in countless
shades of grey.

While her friend was enjoying the Mediterranean sun in Israel, Mariana
was scrambling to stay afloat in a post-industrial, post-communist
hell.

So, buoyed by her friend's vague promise of a $1,000-a-month job, she
boarded a plane and flew to Israel. Her hopes were quickly dashed.

In the coastal city of Ashdod, Mariana was met by two male
acquaintances of her friend. They packed her into a car and then
handed her over to another group of men, who took her passport and
drove her to a one-storey grey building in nearby Tel Aviv. "All you
have to do is pay us back," she recalls one of the Russian-speaking
men saying. Mariana, 23, had been sold into sexual bondage for
$10,000.

Prostitution and sexual slavery are hardly new, and Israel is scarcely
the only destination for trafficked women. Yet, aided by loosened
borders and the Internet, the buying and selling of human flesh for
the worldwide sex industry is now organised crime's fastest-growing
business, the United Nations says.

"Trafficking is the ugly face of globalisation," says Pino Arlacchi,
executive director of the UN Office for Drug Control and Crime
Prevention in Vienna.

The impoverishment of Russia and Eastern Europe since the collapse of
the Soviet Union has opened the flourishing cross-border sex trade to
the most lucrative commodity of all: white women. Russian and Eastern
European women have replaced Asian women as the trade's most valuable
cargo, law enforcement officials and anti-trafficking activists say.

So sought after are Russian women for the sex trade that the
Australian Embassy in Moscow installed a tape recording last month to
warn Russian girls against accepting jobs as nannies, maids, dancers,
barmaids or models in Australia. It is the first embassy in the
Russian capital to do so.
"It's a preventative strategy," the ambassador, Ruth Pearce, says.
"We wanted to outline the jobs that aren't generally available in
Australia for foreigners."

For Mariana, who asked that her full name not be published for fear of
her safety, there were no warnings.

The brothel routine was brutal and efficient. She worked seven days a
week, servicing up to 20 customers a day, both Jewish and Arab.
Condoms and anti-bacterial soap were provided.

A man stood guard near the door of her room, furnished sparely with a
bed, a dresser, a shower and a sink. She was isolated from the outside
world, except for a woman who stopped each day to sell food to her and
the other Russian girls. Telephone calls home to assure her parents
that "work" was fine were monitored.

After about five months, Mariana was allowed to leave the one-storey
grey building with a driver to meet clients at a Tel Aviv hotel. Three
days later, a group of men drugged her in a cabana behind the hotel.

"Do what we say. Don't kick and don't scream. There's no point in
fighting," she remembers them saying before they gang-raped her.
Desperate, she tried to escape the brothel but was caught.

Finally, a sympathetic customer whom Mariana would describe only as a
"Polish Jew" tipped off police. They raided the brothel, jailed
Mariana and deported her two weeks later to Russia. Six months after
departing Chelyabinsk, Mariana, an only child, returned to Russia,
penniless.

Looking back, Mariana strikes a worldly wise tone and insists no-one
is to blame for her nightmare. Besides, she shrugs: "For me to get mad
doesn't solve anything. If you close the border and put up a wall, the
prices will increase."

It's with no apparent irony that Mariana, the child of a barricaded
communist empire, invokes the icons of free trade and open borders.
Yet, they helped fuel the smuggling last year of 100,000 women from
Russia, Ukraine and elsewhere in the former Soviet Union into
international prostitution, the US Government estimates.

At the root of the flourishing trade in Slavic women is economic
desperation. Average wages in Russia are $110 a month. A third of the
country's population - or 48 million people - earn less than $1 a day,
the Labour Ministry says. Two-thirds of Russia's 12.6 million
unemployed are women.

Another factor causing young women to leave Russia is the simple
yearning to see a world long cut off from them. During the Soviet era,
foreign travel was sharply restricted, and the State-run media drew a
repellent picture of life abroad to suit its anti-Western views.

In today's Russia, enormously popular reruns of Santa Barbara are
often viewed not as fiction but as documentaries pointing to a life
tantalisingly within reach. Young women, visions of Pretty Woman
dancing in their heads, are easily lured by newspaper advertisements
offering phony jobs as dancers and waitresses in exotic locales.

But the surge in trafficking is not fed by lies and ignorance alone.
Some Russian women accept overseas jobs, knowing they will be expected
to work as prostitutes. They believe they can turn a few tricks, earn
big money and return home, says Mariana Solomatova, an
anti-trafficking activist in Chelyabinsk.

The problem is, they often lose control, falling prey to gangs and
brothel owners who imprison, enslave and beat them.

For the trapped, there is little legal recourse. Trafficking is not
illegal in most countries, including Russia, and Russian authorities
are largely indifferent. "Why should we care if our prostitutes go
abroad?" Solomatova quotes a Chelyabinsk prosecutor as saying.

With few if any risks, business is surging. Besides legal impunity,
the trade in human beings has yet another appeal to organised crime:
by contrast to illicit narcotics, which are used once, trafficked
women pay out for a number of years.
A mix of Moscow-based crime gangs and small-time entrepreneurs are a
dominant force in the trade, operating networks that run Slavic women
east to Japan and South-East Asia, and west to the Balkans and Europe,
according to Sally Stoecker, of the Transnational Crime and Corruption
Centre at American University in Washington, DC. The traffickers
provide transportation, security, false documents and contacts with
brothel owners overseas.

Their merchandise is in great demand. "Russian women are thought to be
more educated, more beautiful and more white than Asian women," says
Doros Michael, of the Immigrant Support Action Group in Cyprus, where
women from the countries of the former Soviet Union - entering the
country legally as "artists" - dominate the eastern Mediterranean
island's sex industry.

For Arlacchi, the booming trade in humans means nothing less than a
resurgence of slavery, though on a scale far bigger than the slave
trade between Africa and the New World.

In four centuries, about 12 million slaves were forcibly moved from
Africa to the New World, Arlacchi says. By contrast, he says, up to
200 million people worldwide - many women and children ensnared in the
sex trade - may be in the grips of traffickers.

"We must absolutely stop it. We have more and more victims, more and
more geographical areas involved and more criminal groups than ever
seeking a piece of the business," Arlacchi says.

Mariana was just one of the estimated 2,000 Russian women who enter
the Israeli sex industry every year.

Some arrive legally on tourist visas, says the executive director of
the Israeli section of Amnesty International, Yael Weisz-Rind. Others
come ashore from cruise ships at Haifa or Ashdod, or enter Israel with
false papers issued by the network of Russian and local traffickers.
Still others enter as new immigrants, receiving the basic allotment of
benefits given to Jews from the former Soviet Union.

While prostitution is legal in Israel, brothels are not. Yet there are
more than 200 brothels, 200 sex clubs and an unknown number of firms
providing call girls in a sex industry worth between $110 million and
$450 million a year, says Weisz-Rind, who wrote a report last year on
the trafficking of women to Israel.

Israel had no specific laws against trafficking until June last year
when the Knesset approved legislation making trafficking illegal and
punishable by jail terms of up to 17 years. But, Weisz-Rind says,
prosecutors and judges are not using their new clout. "We don't see
any big action in this area. Judges aren't behaving differently,
handing down light sentences. The networks and pimps just go back and
import more women to Israel."

Nearly 18 months after her ordeal, Mariana, now a second-year law
student, is just trying to forget. But the past is difficult to
escape.

"Going home was her single preoccupation while trapped in Israel", she
says. Yet it is no longer a refuge. The friend who enticed her to
Israel has returned to Chelyabinsk, though they don't speak to each
other anymore. It turned out she had been working as a prostitute in
Israel, too.

The man who arranged her travel documents has also reappeared. Mariana
has learnt he is a relative of the two men in Israel who had bought
her for $10,000.

But more than the betrayals, it is the memories of suffering alone,
without the knowledge of those dearest to her, that has left the
deepest scar: "The most hurtful thing is that my parents don't know
what happened to me. They couldn't stand to hear what happened ..."

With that, Mariana's voice falters and her eyes well with tears.

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Source: The New York Times | Sunday, January 11, 1998

Contraband Women
By MICHAEL SPECTER

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RAMLE, Israel &#8212; Irina always assumed that her beauty would
somehow rescue her from the poverty and hopelessness of village life.
A few months ago, after answering a vague ad in a small Ukrainian
newspaper, she slipped off a tour boat when it put in at Haifa, hoping
to make a bundle dancing naked on the tops of tables.

She was 21, self-assured and glad to be out of Ukraine. Israel
offered a new world, and for a week or two everything seemed possible.
Then, one morning, she was driven to a brothel, where her boss burned
her passport before her eyes.

"I own you," she recalled his saying. "You are my property, and you
will work until you earn your way out. Don't try to leave. You have
no papers and you don't speak Hebrew. You will be arrested and
deported. Then we will get you and bring you back."

It happens every single day. Not just in Israel, which has deported
nearly 1,500 Russian and Ukrainian women like Irina in the past three
years. But throughout the world, where selling naive and desperate
young women into sexual bondage has become one of the fastest-growing
criminal enterprises in the robust global economy.

The international bazaar for women is hardly new, of course. Asians
have been its basic commodity for decades. But economic hopelessness
in the Slavic world has opened what experts call the most lucrative
market of all to criminal gangs that have flourished since the fall of
Communism: Eastern European women with little to sustain them but
their dreams. Pimps, law-enforcement officials and relief groups all
agree that Ukrainian and Russian women are now the most valuable in
the trade.

Because their immigration is often illegal &#8212; and because some
percentage of the women choose to work as prostitutes &#8212;
statistics are difficult to assess. But the United Nations estimates
that 4 million people throughout the world are trafficked each year
&#8212; forced through lies and coercion to work against their will in
many types of servitude. The International Organization for Migration
has said that as many as 500,000 women are annually trafficked into
Western Europe alone.

Many end up like Irina. Stunned and outraged by the sudden order to
prostitute herself, she simply refused. She was beaten and raped
before she succumbed. Finally she got a break. The brothel was
raided, and she was brought here to Neve Tirtsa in Ramle, the only
women's prison in Israel. Now, like hundreds of Ukrainian and Russian
women with no documents or obvious forgeries, she is waiting to be
sent home.

"I don't think the man who ruined my life will even be fined," she
said softly, slow tears filling her enormous green eyes. "You can
call me a fool for coming here. That's my crime. I am stupid. A
stupid girl from a little village. But can people really buy and sell
women and get away with it? Sometimes I sit here and ask myself if
that really happened to me, if it can really happen at all."

Then, waving her arm toward the muddy prison yard, where Russian is
spoken more commonly than Hebrew, she whispered one last thought: "I'm
not the only one, you know. They have ruined us all."

Traffic Patterns: Russia and Ukraine Supply the Flesh

Centered in Moscow and the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, the networks
trafficking women run east to Japan and Thailand, where thousands of
young Slavic women now work against their will as prostitutes, and
west to the Adriatic Coast and beyond. The routes are controlled by
Russian crime gangs based in Moscow. Even when they do not
specifically move the women overseas, they provide security,
logistical support, liaison with brothel owners in many countries and,
usually, false documents.

Women often start their hellish journey by choice. Seeking a better
life, they are lured by local advertisements for good jobs in foreign
countries at wages they could never imagine at home.

In Ukraine alone, the number of women who leave is staggering. As
many as 400,000 women under 30 have gone in the past decade, according
to their country's interior ministry. The Thai Embassy in Moscow,
which processes visa applications from Russia and Ukraine, says it
receives nearly 1,000 visa applications a day, most of these from
women.

Israel is a fairly typical destination. Prostitution is not illegal
here, although brothels are, and with 250,000 foreign male workers
&#8212; most of whom are single or here without their wives &#8212;
the demand is great. Police officials estimate that there are 25,000
paid sexual transactions every day. Brothels are ubiquitous.

None of the women seem to realize the risks they run until it is too
late. Once they cross the border their passports will be confiscated,
their freedoms curtailed and what little money they have taken from
them at once.

"You want to tell these kids that if something seems too good to be
true it usually is," said Lyudmilla Biryuk, a Ukrainian psychologist
who has counseled women who have escaped or been released from
bondage. "But you can't imagine what fear and real ignorance can do
to a person."

The women are smuggled by car, bus, boat and plane. Handed off in the
dead of night, many are told they will pick oranges, work as dancers
or as waitresses. Others have decided to try their luck at
prostitution, usually for what they assume will be a few lucrative
months. They have no idea of the violence that awaits them.

The efficient, economically brutal routine &#8212; whether here in
Israel, or in one of a dozen other countries &#8212; rarely varies.
Women are held in apartments, bars and makeshift brothels; there they
service, by their own count, as many as 15 clients a day. Often they
sleep in shifts, four to a bed. The best that most hope for is to be
deported after the police finally catch up with their captors.

Few ever testify. Those who do risk death. Last year in Istanbul,
Turkey, according to Ukrainian police investigators, two women were
thrown to their deaths from a balcony while six of their Russian
friends watched.

In Serbia, also last year, said a young Ukrainian woman who escaped in
October, a woman who refused to work as a prostitute was beheaded in
public.

In Milan, Italy, a week before Christmas, the police broke up a ring
that was holding auctions in which women abducted from the countries
of the former Soviet Union were put on blocks, partially naked, and
sold at an average price of just under $1,000.

"This is happening wherever you look now," said Michael Platzer, the
Vienna, Austria-based head of operations for the U.N.'s Center for
International Crime Prevention. "The Mafia is not stupid. There is
less law enforcement since the Soviet Union fell apart and more
freedom of movement. The earnings are incredible. The overhead is
low &#8212; you don't have to buy cars and guns. Drugs you sell once
and they are gone. Women can earn money for a long time."

"Also," he added, "the laws help the gangsters. Prostitution is
semilegal in many places and that makes enforcement tricky. In most
cases punishment is very light."

In some countries, Israel among them, there is not even a specific law
against the sale of human beings.

Platzer said that although certainly "tens of thousands" of women were
sold into prostitution each year, he was uncomfortable with statistics
since nobody involved has any reason to tell the truth.

"But if you want to use numbers," he said, "think about this. Two
hundred million people are victims of contemporary forms of slavery."
"Most aren't prostitutes, of course, but children in sweatshops,
domestic workers, migrants. During four centuries, 12 million people
were believed to be involved in the slave trade between Africa and the
New World. The 200 million &#8212; and many of course are women who
are trafficked for sex &#8212; is a current figure. It's happening
now. Today."

Distress Calls: Far-Flung Victims Provide Few Clues

The distress call came from Donetsk, the bleak center of coal
production in southern Ukraine. A woman was screaming on the
telephone line. Her sister and a friend were prisoners in a bar
somewhere near Rome. They spoke no Italian and had no way out, but
had managed, briefly, to get hold of a man's cell phone.

"Do you have any idea where they are, exactly?" asked Olga Shved, who
runs La Strada in Kiev, Ukraine's new center dedicated to fighting the
trafficking of women in Eastern Europe and the countries of the former
Soviet Union.

The woman's answer was no. Ms. Shved began searching for files and
telephone numbers of the local consul, the police, anybody who could
help.

"Do they know how far from Rome they are?" she asked, her voice
tightening with each word. "What about the name of the street or the
bar? Anything will help," she said, jotting notes furiously as she
spoke. "We can get the police on this, but we need something. If
they call back, tell them to give us a clue. The street number. The
number of a bus that runs past. One thing is all we need."

Ms. Shved hung up and called officials at Ukraine's Interior Ministry
and the Foreign Ministry. Her conversations were short, direct and
obviously a routine part of her job.

That is because Ukraine &#8212; and to a lesser degree its Slavic
neighbors Russia and Belarus &#8212; has replaced Thailand and the
Philippines as the epicenter of the global business in trafficking
women. The Ukrainian problem has been worsened by a ravaged economy,
an atrophied system of law enforcement, and criminal gangs that grow
more brazen each year. Young European women are in demand, and
Ukraine, a country of 51 million people, has a seemingly endless
supply. It is not that hard to see why.

Neither Russia nor Ukraine reports accurate unemployment statistics.
But even partial numbers present a clear story of chaos and economic
dislocation.

Federal employment statistics in Ukraine indicate that more than
two-thirds of the unemployed are women. The government also keeps
another statistic: employed but not working. Those are people who
technically have jobs, and can use company amenities like day-care
centers and hospitals. But they do not work or get paid.
Three-quarters are women. And of those who have lost their jobs since
the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, more than 80 percent are women.

The average salary in Ukraine today is slightly less than $30 a month,
but it is half that in the small towns that criminal gangs favor for
recruiting women to work abroad. On average, there are 30 applicants
for every job in most Ukrainian cities. There is no real hope; but
there is freedom.

In that climate, looking for work in foreign countries has
increasingly become a matter of survival.

"It's no secret that the highest prices now go for the white women,"
said Marco Buffo, executive director of On the Road, an
antitrafficking organization in northern Italy. "They are the novelty
item now. It used to be Nigerians and Asians at the top of the
market. Now it's the Ukrainians."

Economics is not the only factor causing women to flee their
homelands. There is also social reality. For the first time, young
women in Ukraine and Russia have the right, the ability and the
willpower to walk away from their parents and their hometowns.
Village life is disintegrating throughout much of the former Soviet
world, and youngsters are grabbing any chance they can find to save
themselves.

"After the wall fell down, the Ukrainian people tried to live in the
new circumstances," said Ms. Shved. "It was very hard, and it gets no
easier. Girls now have few opportunities yet great freedom. They see
'Pretty Woman,' or a thousand movies and ads with the same point, that
somebody who is rich can save them. The glory and ease of wealth is
almost the basic point of the Western advertising that we see. Here
the towns are dying. What jobs there are go to men. So they leave."

First, however, they answer ads from employment agencies promising to
find them work in a foreign country. Here again, Russian crime gangs
play a central role. They often recruit people through seemingly
innocuous "mail order bride" meetings. Even when they do not, few
such organizations can operate without paying off one gang or another.
Sometimes want ads are almost honest, suggesting that the women can
earn up to $1,000 a month as "escorts" abroad. Often they are vague
or blatantly untrue.

Recruiting Methods: Ads Make Offers Too Good To Be True

One typical ad used by traffickers in Kiev last year read: "Girls:
Must be single and very pretty. Young and tall. We invite you for
work as models, secretaries, dancers, choreographers, gymnasts.
Housing is supplied. Foreign posts available. Must apply in person."

One young woman who did, and made it back alive, described a harrowing
journey. "I met with these guys, and they asked if I would work at a
strip bar," she said. "Why not, I thought. They said we would have
to leave at once. We went by car to the Slovak Republic where they
grabbed my passport. I think they got me new papers there, but
threatened me if I spoke out. We made it to Vienna, then to Turkey.
I was kept in a bar and I was told I owed $5,000 for my travel. I
worked for three days, and on the fourth I was arrested."

Lately, the ads have started to disappear from the main cities &#8212;
where the realities of such offers are known now. These days the
appeals are made in the provinces, where their success is
undiminished.

Most of the thousands of Ukrainian women who go abroad each year are
illegal immigrants who do not work in the sex business. Often they
apply for a legal visa &#8212; to dance, or work in a bar &#8212; and
then stay after it expires.

Many go to Turkey and Germany, where Russian crime groups are
particularly powerful. Israeli leaders say that Russian women &#8212;
they tend to refer to all women from the former Soviet Union as
Russian &#8212; disappear off tour boats every day. Officials in
Italy estimate that at least 30,000 Ukrainian women are employed
illegally there now.

Most are domestic workers, but a growing number are prostitutes, some
of them having been promised work as domestics only to find out their
jobs were a lie. Part of the problem became clear in a two-year study
recently concluded by the Washington-based nonprofit group Global
Survival Network: Police officials in many countries just don't care.

The network, after undercover interviews with gangsters, pimps and
corrupt officials, found that local police forces &#8212; often those
best able to prevent trafficking &#8212; are least interested in
helping.

Gillian Caldwell of Global Survival Network has been deeply involved
in the study. "In Tokyo," she said, "a sympathetic senator arranged a
meeting for us with senior police officials to discuss the growing
prevalence of trafficking from Russia into Japan. The police insisted
it wasn't a problem, and they didn't even want the concrete
information we could have provided. That didn't surprise local relief
agencies, who cited instances in which police had actually sold
trafficked women back to the criminal networks which had enslaved
them."
Official Reactions: Best&#8212;Placed To Help, but Least Inclined

Complacency among police agencies is not uncommon.

"Women's groups want to blow this all out of proportion," said Gennadi
Lepenko, chief of Kiev's branch of Interpol, the international police
agency. "Perhaps this was a problem a few years ago. But it's under
control now."

That is not the view at Ukraine's parliament &#8212; which is trying
to pass new laws to protect young women &#8212; or at the Interior
Ministry.

"We have a very serious problem here, and we are simply not equipped
to solve it by ourselves," said Mikhail Lebed, chief of criminal
investigations for the Ukrainian Interior Ministry. "It is a human
tragedy, but also, frankly, a national crisis. Gangsters make more
from these women in a week than we have in our law&#8212;enforcement
budget for the whole year. To be honest, unless we get some help we
are not going to stop it."

But solutions will not be simple. Criminal gangs risk little by
ferrying women out of the country; indeed, many of the women go
voluntarily. Laws are vague, cooperation between countries rare and
punishment of traffickers almost nonexistent. Without work or much
hope of a future at home, an eager teen&#8212;ager will find it hard
to believe that the promise of a job in Italy, Turkey or Israel is
almost certain to be worthless.

"I answered an ad to be a waitress," said Tamara, 19, a Ukrainian
prostitute in a massage parlor near Tel Aviv's old Central Bus
Station, a Russian-language ghetto for the cheapest brothels. "I'm
not sure I would go back now if I could. What would I do there, stand
on a bread line or work in a factory for no wages?"

Tamara, like all other such women interviewed for this article, asked
that her full name not be published. She has classic Slavic features,
with long blond hair and deep green eyes. She turned several
potential customers away so she could speak at length with a reporter.
She was willing to talk as long as her boss was out. She said she
was not watched closely while she remained within the garish confines
of the "health club."

"I didn't plan to do this," she said, looking sourly at the rich red
walls and leopard prints around her. "They took my passport, so I
don't have much choice. But they do give me money. And believe me,
it's better than anything I could ever get at home."

Yitzhak Tyler, the chief of undercover activities for the Haifa
police, is a big, open-faced man who doesn't mince words.

"We got a hell of a problem on our hands," he said. The port city of
200,000 has become the easiest entryway for women brought to Israel to
work as prostitutes &#8212; though by no means the only one.
Sometimes they walk off tour boats, but increasingly they come with
forged documents that enable them to live and work in Israel. These
have often been bought or stolen from elderly Jewish women in Russia
or Ukraine.

"This is a sophisticated, global operation," Tyler said. "It's evil,
and it's successful because the money is so good. These men pay $500
to $1,000 for a Ukrainian or Russian woman. Do you understand what I
am telling you? They will buy these women and make a fortune out of
them."

To illustrate his point, Tyler grabbed a black calculator and started
calling out the sums as he punched them in.

"Take a small place," he said, &quo;with 10 girls. Each has 15 to 20
clients a day. Multiply that by say 200 shekels. So say 30,000
shekels a day comes in to each place. Each girl works 25 days a
month. Minimum.&quo;

Tyler was busy doing math as he spoke. &quo;So we are talking about
750,000 shekels a month, or about $215,000. A man often owns five of
these places. That's a million dollars. No taxes, no real overhead.
It's a factory with slave labor. And we've got them all over
Israel.&quo;

The Tropicana, in Tel Aviv's bustling business district, is one of the
busiest bordellos. The women who work there, like nearly all
prostitutes in Israel today, are Russian. Their boss, however, is
not.

&quo;Israelis love Russian girls,&quo; said Jacob Golan, who owns this
and two other clubs, and spoke willingly about the business he finds
so "successful." &quo;They are blonde and good-looking and different
from us,&quo; he said, chuckling as he drew his hand over his black
hair. &quo;And they are desperate. They are ready to do anything for
money.&quo;

Always filled with half-naked Russian women, the club is open around
the clock. There is a schedule on the wall next to the receptionist
&#8212; with each woman's hours listed in a different color, and the
days and shifts rotating, as at a restaurant or a bar. Next to the
schedule a sign reads, &quo;We don't accept checks.&quo; Next to that
there is a poster for a missing Israeli woman.

There are 12 cubicles at the Tropicana where 20 women work in shifts,
eight during the daytime, 12 at night. Business is always booming,
and not just with foreign workers. Israeli soldiers, with rifles on
their shoulders, frequent the place, as do business executives and
tourists.

Mr. Golan was asked if most women who work at the club do so
voluntarily. He laughed heartily.

&quo;I don't get into that,&quo; he said, staring vacantly across his
club at four Russian women sitting on a low couch. &quo;They are
brought here and told to work. I don't force them. I pay them. What
goes on between them and the men they are with, how could that be my
problem?&quo;

Deterrent Strategies: A System that Fails Those Who Testify

Every once in a while, usually with great fanfare and plenty of
advance notice, Golan gets raided. He pays a fine, and the women
without good false documents are taken to prison.

If they are deported, the charges against them are dropped. But if a
woman wants to file a complaint, then she must remain in prison until
a trial is held. &quo;In the past four years,&quo; Betty Lahan,
prison director of Neve Tirtsa here, said, &quo;I don't know of a
single case where a woman chose to testify.&quo;

Such punitive treatment of victims is the rule rather than the
exception. In Italy, where the police say killings of women forced
into prostitution average one a month, parliament tried to create a
sort of witness protection program. But it only allowed women to stay
in the country for one year and did nothing to hide their identities.

&quo;The deck is just so completely stacked against the women in all
this,&quo; said Daniella Pompei, an immigration specialist with the
community of Sant'Egidio, the Catholic relief agency in Rome.
&quo;The police is the last place these women want to go.&quo; She
said that only 20 women had ever used the protection program.

It is not clear who will stop the mob. On a trip to Ukraine late last
year, Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke out about the new slave trade that
has developed so rapidly there. The United States and the European
Union have plans to work together to educate young women about the
dangers of working abroad. Other initiatives, like stays of
deportation for prisoners, victims' shelters and counseling, have also
been discussed.

&quo;I don't care about any of that,&quo; said Lena, a young Latvian,
one of the inmates waiting to be deported here. &quo;I just want to
know one thing. How will I ever walk down the street like a human
being again?&quo;

(Courtesy of Jeff's Archive.)

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Source: Sunday November 12, 2000 The Observer
Russians launch crackdown on 'sex slave' traffickers
Campaigners attack 'risk-free' trade in women
reported by Amelia Gentleman

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Had it not been for the long queue for tickets at St Petersburg's
central railway station, Lara Matveyeva might never have found herself
working in a German brothel - one of hundreds of thousands of East
European women unwittingly sold into prostitution in the West.

As it was, the slow movement of the queue provided an ideal forum for
recruitment. The tedium of waiting was lifted by the appearance of a
friendly, well-dressed woman behind her.

Enticed into conversation, Lara told her that she was returning home
to a job and a town that bored her. The woman replied that she had a
friend in Germany who was looking for help with the housework for a
few months, and that if Lara was eager for a change she could put them
in touch. The money would be bad, but she would be required to do
little except water the plants and feed the pets; most importantly, it
would be a chance to travel.

Only mildly surprised by this stranger's desire to be kind, Lara
accepted. A few days later she was travelling by bus to Hamburg. A
Russian woman was there to meet her at the bus stop, accompanied her
to a flat nearby and took her passport from her - for safekeeping.
After three days she told Lara, then 24, that there was no housework
to be done, so she would have to work as a prostitute.

Intelligent and well-educated, it nevertheless took her six months to
escape from imprisonment in a series of bars and nightclubs in Hamburg
and its suburbs. Most of the other Russians she met there had given up
even trying to return home. Even now that she is back in her small
provincial town on the southern border with Ukraine, she remains so
anxious about reprisals from the people who organised her trip that
she refuses to reveal her real name.

Her horror at her own experience and at the scale of the problem in
Russia motivated her - in spite of the dangers - to start tackling the
problem. She was one of the participants at a conference of 43
anti-trafficking organisations from 25 regions of Russia and six
former Soviet republics that finished last week.
These groups hope to combat a phenomenon that, according to the
Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, has swept up
something like 500,000 Russian women in the past decade (although the
trade's clandestine nature makes it impossible to estimate accurately
the numbers). Activists say that, despite its scale, human trafficking
is still not treated seriously by the Russian government.

"There is a great reluctance to recognise and address this problem,"
said one of the conference organisers, who also requested anonymity.
"The reality is that it is a modern slave trade, just as profitable as
it was 200 years ago."

The trade stems from a mixture of poverty, naivety, a weak legal
system and a prevalence of well-organised criminal groups. Ignorance
lies at the heart of the problem. According to MiraMed, the charity
that organised this month's conference, around 90 per cent of the
women trafficked abroad are unaware that they are headed for a career
in the sex industry.

The small ads columns of provincial newspapers are filled with adverts
encouraging young, attractive women to apply for work as waitresses in
Italy or barmaids and nannies in Germany.

With the economy in Russia's remote regions deeply depressed, many
women are desperate for an escape. The novelty of travel in the West
remains high, while awareness about life there is low. Not suspecting
any possible threat, the women - mostly in their teens or early
twenties - are easy prey.

For the groups organising the trafficking there are few obstacles.
Compared with selling drugs or weapons abroad, trade in women is
highly profitable and relatively risk-free. Unlike guns or drugs,
women can be sold over and over again, acting as a regular, long-term
source of income. And, crucially, in Russia there is still no specific
legislation which decrees illegal the trade in humans . The few women
who make their way back to Russia have no recourse to the law. Even
now, two years after her return, she has told none of her friends or
family about what happened in Germany; they believe she spent an
uneventful few months as an au pair.
The memory of those months remains painful. 'I'm not scared of
anything any more because the worst thing that could possibly happen
to me already has. Very few of the women I met had willingly become
prostitutes. Most were tricked. Most alarming was the sense that there
was no way out.

Our passports had been taken; we spoke no German and knew nothing
about the country, so we didn't know what punishment would face us if
we went to the police. We were illegal immigrants involved in an
illegal activity - we didn't expect any sympathy.

'To begin with I refused to do the work, but later I had to - there
was no other way of feeding myself, and by that time I had seen the
beatings other women got when they refused to co-operate.'

Each of the new recruits was presented with instant debts to their
pimps of around $1,000. The bar's exits were monitored by security
cameras, heightening the sense that there was no escape.

When the woman who had first pushed her into prostitution decided she
was no good at it, Lara was sold on to a man for $1,000, the sum of
her 'debts'. It was only when his bar was raided and she was arrested
that she realised the police were not as terrifying as she had
anticipated. They spoke no Russian, so she was never able to explain
her situation, but they handed her a deportation order and she was
able to leave.

The main conclusion to come out of this month's anti-trafficking
conference was the need for greater information. A privately sponsored
advertising campaign showing pretty young fish being ensnared by evil
fishermen is soon to run on regional television, and lectures in
schools are being organised to warn girls to be wary of offers of
casual labour abroad.

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DemoCrates wrote:

> >God verhoede me dat ik het ooit volledig met iemand volledig eens zal
> >zijn.
>
> Zo ? Heb je dan nog wel wat servies in huis of is je ega het tegendeel ? ...:-))

Wij hebben gewoon duidelijke afspraken, die feministen misschien niet
leuk gaan vinden. En wat dat servies betreft, als het toch bijna zo ver
is, mijn stamcafé ligt op een kwartiertje stappen :-)

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the lambs and piglets bleated and squealed, wrote:

Prima oplossing ! ....:-))

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