Chapter 143 The Missing Child (2)
These children who were abducted and sold abroad by human traffickers, except for a small number who were bought by families in need and were able to live a normal life, the majority of them are in a very miserable situation:
Some of them are sent by human traffickers to beg at tourist attractions in some countries.
In order to win the sympathy of tourists, human traffickers will cruelly remove the eyeballs of some children, or cut off the tongues of some children, or cruelly injure their limbs... All the money obtained from begging is handed over to these human traffickers.
Some of them were sold to brothels by human traffickers, who forced them to engage in pornographic activities and become prostitutes, strippers, or prostitutes.
Even more tragic is that some of the unfortunate people who are chosen will have their organs removed, and human traffickers will take these removed organs to the organ transplant black market to make huge profits...
Human traffickers are completely devoid of conscience!
All their evil deeds are just for the purpose of making huge profits!
The term "trafficking" commonly used by ordinary people is defined as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons for the purpose of exploitation or trafficking, through the threat of violence, or use of violence, or other forms of coercion, through abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power, or giving or receiving remuneration or benefits to gain control over another person.
Exploitation or trafficking includes, among other things, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude, or the removal of organs.
The victims are mainly women and children, but not limited to them...
Human trafficking is an ancient atrocity!
Four hundred years ago, there was a "Slave Road" in Ouidah that was 4 kilometers long.
This stretch of red gravel road marked the last stretch of road the slaves traveled in Africa before being shipped to the plantations in America. It became the "point of no return" for these suffering slaves. According to sources, half of the slaves died from disease, starvation, and unforgiving torture en route to America. This red gravel road, too, seemed stained with the blood of the slaves.
Ouidah is a town in Benin facing the Atlantic Ocean, 120 kilometers south of Abomey, located east of present-day Ghana, all the way to the "Bight of Benin" area of the Niger Delta... Together with the "Ivory Coast" of Côte d'Ivoire and the "Gold Coast" of Ghana, it is known as one of the three famous "slave coasts" in West Africa.
Since the 16th century, European colonists have been engaged in a frenzied slave trade along the African coast. Over the following centuries, tens of millions of black people were trafficked from this region to the Americas, forced to work in mines and plantations, and enslaved. The Kingdom of Dahomey in Benin, relying on the wealth gained from the slave trade, built Africa's most magnificent palace in Abomey, becoming Africa's most powerful empire.
Today, slavery has long been abolished, but human trafficking has made a comeback under the new situation of globalization, with the convenience of transportation, the development of communication technology, and the increased openness of countries' borders!
Driven by the desire for lucrative profits, criminal gangs resort to extreme risk, engaging in illegal activities through illegal immigration, illegal labor, and illegal tourism. These transnational criminal groups often employ a clear division of labor and relatively established trafficking channels when carrying out their crimes. They also utilize electronic technology to expand their criminal networks in developed and developing countries. To maintain relative secrecy and mitigate risk, these organized crime groups typically establish bases or strongholds in lower-risk countries and regions, then supply abducted women and children to markets in more lucrative countries and regions.
Currently, these criminal issues are receiving increasing attention from governments around the world and the international community, and there is a consensus that trafficking in children and women infringes upon the fundamental rights and interests of women and children, disrupts the normal order of the international community, and is a serious crime.
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