Last update: 10 September, 2015
"We will sell you to the highest bidder and you will do exactly what he wants you to do. I don't care who you are, whose son or daughter, father or mother, brother or sister… You and your body are, from now on, puppets of evil and with you we will do whatever we want. It will be devastating for you, but I will get rich, and that's all I care about. From now on you will act under my orders.
I won't even introduce you to your new master, you will just obey. If he wants you to undress, you will undress; if he wants to force you to have sexual relations, you will agree; if he wants me to work in the fields or in any other sector, you will; and you will not complain because this is the only way you will get a ration of soup that keeps you alive.
The best thing for you is not to think, why there is no escape and you will come to feel that you were born to be humiliated. Some of your buyers will care about your skin color, others your hair color, others your physique, gender and / or age. In any case you will be robbed of your identity, you are no longer anything, just merchandise. Say goodbye to your freedom.
Perhaps you have never known another life and since your childhood you have passed from market to market, gripped by eyes that observe you as if you had a barcode. Since we captured you, you will have noticed that there are many and all of different sizes, orders and conditions. The pleasure of our customers lies in the variety.
Take a good look at these people because it is likely that some of you will no longer be here tomorrow. Observe them carefully why now I will explain to you what awaits those who survive ...
Half of you will be raped and tortured with violence, others of you will be terrified with the cruelest threats and will lock you in small rooms in order to harm you; you will also work from sunrise to sunset, every day of the week, in the harshest conditions you can imagine. Do not dream of resting, because rest is not your thing.
It is likely that they will hurt you, amputate parts of your body, hit you hard, and wish to commit suicide. You will not be able to count on any kind of medical treatment, it would not be convenient for us; moreover, our aim is to earn money, it doesn't matter that your lives are at stake.
You will live with the terror that every minute of this life supposes. You will be mutilated puppets, puppets broken from the slave trade, which was never abolished. We live off the harm that we do to you and we do not pay a pledge.
I condemn you to a life of suffering, to not be free, to be tortured and exploited and I will make sure that your condemnation is perpetual. We have tough enemies, sometimes they weaken us and you manage to free yourself, but our strength still resists. "
And now we turn to you, who are reading these words, with the intention of telling you that you too could be turned into puppets of evil. Your siblings, children, friends or yourself and the rest of your family could be victims of human trafficking. In reality, this horror affects and martyrs people in a causal way, and the people who suffer it every day on their skin rise to 27 million.
We learn to call prostitution, labor slavery and sexual exploitation by their name and ad be aware of this reality. We raise our voices through their choked throats, their battered bodies and their tormented souls. We fight from the outside, from where we find the means to do it, and we protect the most vulnerable from the fate of being captured by mafias and demons who profit from the lives of others.
Image courtesy of Larissa Kulik
