Letters to the Editor
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http://letters.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2006/02/07/sex_slaves/new/form.html
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006/02/03/DI2006020301929.html
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006/02/03/DI2006020301929.html
yes, the documentarians paid for the brother's operation ....
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A new low.
You're blaming women for becoming sex slaves? Damn. That's a new level of hate; you must be proud!
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What is Kiev or Moscow doing about this?
The Russian and Ukrainian mobs who are engaged in this are selling the daughters, wives, sisters, mothers of their countries into sex slavery. This is pure evil at work. And what are the governments of these "supply" countries doing about it? If they're too chicken to take on the mobs directly, why not launch massive information/education campaigns aimed at young women to warn them of the dangers of traveling to certain countries under any circumstances? Why not work vigorously with the Turks and others to track down the criminals and their victims? I could go on and on. I've been following this issue for several years, and the complacency of the powers that be in Moscow and Kiev and Vilnius and Sofia is maddening.
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Article on Sexual Slavery
This is a well-written piece but I don't think Ms. Havrilesky has done enough research on this issue, otherwise she wouldn't have included the snarky line about sexual slavery being a "punch line" in this country. Thousands of poor, mostly young Mexican and Central American women have ended up here and used as prostitutes. They were kidnapped, brutalized and then shipped out as sex slaves. The most recent article that I know of was in the NY Times Magazine, sometime in the last year. While the stories coming out of Russia and Eastern Europe are terrible and heartbreaking, this tragedy is happening in every hemisphere on the planet. It is disgusting.