See K.Ram's post above which is more pertinent to India in general.
Meanwhile, holy slave-trading father kidnaps African children, stealing them away from their mums and dads, to sell them and make money (probably to fund more of his expanding child-slave-trading enterprise). Praise jeebus-jehovallah!
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story....jectid=10482597
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Africa's stolen lives</b>
5:00AM Sunday December 16, 2007
By Jonathan Brown
[image caption:] About <b>12,000 West African children are taken by slave traders each year</b>. Photo / Reuters
<b>William Koua's story of how he tracked down four children, including his son Gilbert, trafficked by an unscrupulous pastor, has highlighted the illegal trade in children in the Ivory Coast.</b>
The arrival last April of a charismatic preacher called the Rev Siehi, promising to open a new school, seemed like manna from heaven for the desperately poor village of Zeaglo, population 6000.
One of three new classrooms was soon complete and the children started attending lessons. But after only six weeks of study, the preacher suggested that the brightest children might be better accommodated at another institution down the road. He picked four - aged between 2 and 5, and members of the Gere tribe.
Their parents were grateful for the opportunity for their children, and gathered to wave them off as they boarded a bus one evening. It soon became clear that all was not well when a worker from Save the Children asked to see some documentation confirming the move. There was none.
(I may be wrong, but "Save the Children" sounds like another christian child/death trap. African parents in their desperation need to turn to a christian org to save their kids from <i>other</i> christians? Things are looking very bleak indeed.)
Koua's wife, Ange-Sylvie, had just given birth to her third child when Gilbert boarded the bus. "The day he disappeared I felt completely lost - like I did not know who I was anymore," she said.
Trafficking in children is big business in the Ivory Coast, with gangs and individuals all too willing to exploit traditional kinship practices in which children are sent to live with better-off relatives.
<b>The traffickers bring about 12,000 children from across West Africa each year to toil as virtual slaves in the country's cocoa plantations. A smaller number are set to work for as little as £1 ($2.60) a day in Ivorian gold mines.</b>
(Pastor is doing the christian thing: precisely what other christians before him did when they kidnapped Africans and made them work at plantations in the Americas.)
<b>It is estimated 2000 trafficked girls are consigned annually to a life as bonded domestic servants in Abidjan, where sexual exploitation is an ever-present danger. Others find themselves sent for illegal adoptions overseas.</b>
(Only affluent countries overseas adopt. And affluent countries are largely of a particular ideological persuasion.
The correct description for what's going on is Child Trafficking to the first world. And it's always christians that are behind these adoption agency projects. Just like in India
When children are stolen from Samoan mothers by unscrupulous western 'adoption agencies', these last argue most 'ethically' about how the adoptive parents in the west have more money and can give a better life for 'third world' baby. See how the logic is infallible. Remember: What's theirs is theirs and what's yours is theirs. No one cares that Samoan or African mum invested 9 months and thereafter all their love in rearing their child, not to mention that it's the actual parents' child in the first place.)
Koua travelled to Abidjan where he began his search, with help from Save the Children. After two months, the farmer located an address and a telephone number for Siehi. "When I rang him he was very cool and relaxed. He actually invited me to his house," recalled Koua. But <b>what he found was deeply disturbing.
The four children had been separated. One of the girls, Veronique, was with the pastor, another, Linda, had been billeted with a powerful local government official who had paid the pastor £250 to procure a light-skinned daughter for a childless friend living in France.</b>
(Nausea attack. Must find basin.)
The other two were being kept at separate locations. Koua eventually arranged to see the children one by one, remaining as cool as he could for fear of jeopardising their safety.
Though improving, the Ivory Coast fails to meet even the most basic minimum international standards on trafficking, though a draft bill formally outlawing the trade is pending.
But with a powerful international aid organisation on his side, Koua found the police willing to take his story seriously. The pastor was arrested and is in jail awaiting trial and the children are all safely back home with relatives.
(Oh please. Powerful <b>christian</b> aid organisations are a major part of the problem. Next to organising the trade of children (like Guatamalan kids stolen from their parents and who form a major supply for adoption centres in the US, and of course Samoan children, and Hindu Indian kids kidnapped from their families and sent to christian adopters 'overseas'), christian orgs also keep the slave trade in Africa operating in full swing. In particular in Sudan - where the islamis are guilty of kidnapping-and-slave-trading the African population - christian organisations are guilty of further encouraging the slave trade by buying the victims into 'freedom' (victim then feels compelled/brainwashed to show their gratitude by living a christian life of 'freedom'). Though Sudan's islamis are the ones enslaving people, overseas christian NGOs are tipping the market forces such that the slave trade continues. And the end result is that more Africans are fed to one or other of the jehova-allah combine.)
- The Independent<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Meanwhile, holy slave-trading father kidnaps African children, stealing them away from their mums and dads, to sell them and make money (probably to fund more of his expanding child-slave-trading enterprise). Praise jeebus-jehovallah!
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story....jectid=10482597
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Africa's stolen lives</b>
5:00AM Sunday December 16, 2007
By Jonathan Brown
[image caption:] About <b>12,000 West African children are taken by slave traders each year</b>. Photo / Reuters
<b>William Koua's story of how he tracked down four children, including his son Gilbert, trafficked by an unscrupulous pastor, has highlighted the illegal trade in children in the Ivory Coast.</b>
The arrival last April of a charismatic preacher called the Rev Siehi, promising to open a new school, seemed like manna from heaven for the desperately poor village of Zeaglo, population 6000.
One of three new classrooms was soon complete and the children started attending lessons. But after only six weeks of study, the preacher suggested that the brightest children might be better accommodated at another institution down the road. He picked four - aged between 2 and 5, and members of the Gere tribe.
Their parents were grateful for the opportunity for their children, and gathered to wave them off as they boarded a bus one evening. It soon became clear that all was not well when a worker from Save the Children asked to see some documentation confirming the move. There was none.
(I may be wrong, but "Save the Children" sounds like another christian child/death trap. African parents in their desperation need to turn to a christian org to save their kids from <i>other</i> christians? Things are looking very bleak indeed.)
Koua's wife, Ange-Sylvie, had just given birth to her third child when Gilbert boarded the bus. "The day he disappeared I felt completely lost - like I did not know who I was anymore," she said.
Trafficking in children is big business in the Ivory Coast, with gangs and individuals all too willing to exploit traditional kinship practices in which children are sent to live with better-off relatives.
<b>The traffickers bring about 12,000 children from across West Africa each year to toil as virtual slaves in the country's cocoa plantations. A smaller number are set to work for as little as £1 ($2.60) a day in Ivorian gold mines.</b>
(Pastor is doing the christian thing: precisely what other christians before him did when they kidnapped Africans and made them work at plantations in the Americas.)
<b>It is estimated 2000 trafficked girls are consigned annually to a life as bonded domestic servants in Abidjan, where sexual exploitation is an ever-present danger. Others find themselves sent for illegal adoptions overseas.</b>
(Only affluent countries overseas adopt. And affluent countries are largely of a particular ideological persuasion.
The correct description for what's going on is Child Trafficking to the first world. And it's always christians that are behind these adoption agency projects. Just like in India
When children are stolen from Samoan mothers by unscrupulous western 'adoption agencies', these last argue most 'ethically' about how the adoptive parents in the west have more money and can give a better life for 'third world' baby. See how the logic is infallible. Remember: What's theirs is theirs and what's yours is theirs. No one cares that Samoan or African mum invested 9 months and thereafter all their love in rearing their child, not to mention that it's the actual parents' child in the first place.)
Koua travelled to Abidjan where he began his search, with help from Save the Children. After two months, the farmer located an address and a telephone number for Siehi. "When I rang him he was very cool and relaxed. He actually invited me to his house," recalled Koua. But <b>what he found was deeply disturbing.
The four children had been separated. One of the girls, Veronique, was with the pastor, another, Linda, had been billeted with a powerful local government official who had paid the pastor £250 to procure a light-skinned daughter for a childless friend living in France.</b>
(Nausea attack. Must find basin.)
The other two were being kept at separate locations. Koua eventually arranged to see the children one by one, remaining as cool as he could for fear of jeopardising their safety.
Though improving, the Ivory Coast fails to meet even the most basic minimum international standards on trafficking, though a draft bill formally outlawing the trade is pending.
But with a powerful international aid organisation on his side, Koua found the police willing to take his story seriously. The pastor was arrested and is in jail awaiting trial and the children are all safely back home with relatives.
(Oh please. Powerful <b>christian</b> aid organisations are a major part of the problem. Next to organising the trade of children (like Guatamalan kids stolen from their parents and who form a major supply for adoption centres in the US, and of course Samoan children, and Hindu Indian kids kidnapped from their families and sent to christian adopters 'overseas'), christian orgs also keep the slave trade in Africa operating in full swing. In particular in Sudan - where the islamis are guilty of kidnapping-and-slave-trading the African population - christian organisations are guilty of further encouraging the slave trade by buying the victims into 'freedom' (victim then feels compelled/brainwashed to show their gratitude by living a christian life of 'freedom'). Though Sudan's islamis are the ones enslaving people, overseas christian NGOs are tipping the market forces such that the slave trade continues. And the end result is that more Africans are fed to one or other of the jehova-allah combine.)
- The Independent<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->