Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Meet the 21st Century

It has a depressingly familiar look about it.

Hundreds of Eritrean refugees have been enslaved in torture camps in Sudan and Egypt in the past 10 years, enduring weeks or months of violence and rape and extorted by traffickers often in collusion with state security forces...

The report, I Wanted to Lie Down and Die: Trafficking and Torture of Eritreans in Sudan and Egypt, says state authorities have failed to identify and prosecute perpetrators, and have often colluded with them in the kidnap and abuse of refugees.

Golly, I wonder if there's a government we are familiar with that provided aid to Egypt the last decade without doing something about this...like even complaining? [cross-posted at Firedoglake]

2 comments:

Philo Vaihinger said...

Hundreds of Eritrean refugees have been enslaved in torture camps in Sudan and Egypt in the past 10 years, enduring weeks or months of violence and rape and extorted by traffickers often in collusion with state security forces...

How Africa exported slaves to the Americas until England tried to stop it and the Americas decided to stop buying the product.

NOT A ROBOT!

pansypoo said...

just force breed the slaves you have.