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To: 2banana; GeraldP
Christan girls are being abducted from eastern european countries (Moldova, Bulgaria and the Ukraine) and are being to forced to work in the sex industries in mostly Muslim countries (Kosovo and Albania). The main customers are UN personnel.

Be careful about attaching religious labels to this behavior. The abductors from those Christian areas are mostly also Christian and the UN customers are primarily Christian. Plus as reported in the actual Amnesty International document found here , the trafficking mostly comes thru Serbia--another Christian country:

"Women are trafficked into Kosovo predominantly from Moldova, Bulgaria and Ukraine, the majority of them via Serbia."

These people are simply criminals--to include the so called Christians. More from the report:

Trafficking routes "That night two Serbian men came there and took two other girls and me away. All of us entered [Yugoslavia] illegally firstly by car, and then crossing a river on foot, until we met two other men who were waiting for us. These men took us to a house to spend the night, and the next day somebody else took us to a different house. I do not know the name of the city where we were staying. It was a woman that took us away this time."(59)

More than half (52 per cent) of women who come to Kosovo are trafficked via Serbia, with 22 per cent coming via Macedonia.(60) Women are also trafficked into Kosovo from Albania. According to the UNMIK Border Police, around 10 women a week are trafficked through Prishtinë/Priština airport, all of whom have apparently lawful contracts of employment.(61)

Serbia's geographical location, a decade of war and sanctions and the flourishing of organized crime(62) has made Serbia a central hub in the trafficking of women from central and eastern Europe into Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania and onward into western Europe via Italy or Greece.

Sold "just like a cloth" Women are taken, usually in small groups, to "trading houses" in hotels and private apartments around Belgrade, Panèevo and Novi Sad, and also in Montenegro. There they are paraded in front of potential buyers, often being forced to strip before being sold to their new "owner". "First they would put us to get undressed, and to be only in underwear, to look at us and see how we are looking. If you are looking OK, and they [like you], they will buy you. We were like a rag, just like a cloth."(63)

"They put us in a line, standing up, and then they sit in an armchair and look at us, choosing one of us." "You will not know who bought you. They will just come and tell you that you must get ready because you [have to] leave."(64)

A journalist who visited a "trading house" near Belgrade confirmed these reports. He also observed a man bidding for a woman while talking to the purchaser via mobile phone. (65

48 posted on 05/06/2004 4:06:38 PM PDT by mark502inf
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To: mark502inf
Good to have you back.
49 posted on 05/07/2004 7:04:26 AM PDT by GeraldP (From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.)
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