Sunday, October 05, 2008
Hallmark channel (scv ch 17) was showing the movie "Human Trafficking" last night. I watched a bit of it, and found it online.
Regarding the plot, the title says it all.
Hundreds of thousands of young women have vanished from their everyday lives-forced by violence into a hellish existence of brutality and prostitution. (Read more over at IMDb here.)
It's totally brutal.
Just thinking that at this very moment that I'm typing this, there probably are women and girls (children) who are trapped and struggling... treated as not human...
Conned by some man wooing them, tricked through model agencies, kidnapped outright, etc. And the way they're moved from brothel to brothel, shipped from country to country. Beaten up if they disobeyed orders, murdered if they contract diseases like AIDs.
As the detective agents on the hunt to catch the ringleader put it:
1) For those bad guys, selling drugs like heroin only makes them a profit once. But by selling women, they can resell and resell, and everytime it makes them a profit.
2) The United States is one of the largest market in the world.
3) If there wasn't a demand for it, there wouldn't be a market.
The movie really open your eyes up to something that you would think isn't possible in this century. Go watch it, girls. It's a sad and dark story, but it's true and happening in this world.
himitsu @ 9:27 PM.
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