"STUPRI ETNICI" SULLE STRADE DI ROMA:
DECINE DI MIGLIAIA DI RAGAZZE DALL'EUROPA ORIENTALE
RIDOTTE IN SCHIAVITU'. COSA C'E' DIETRO?
Noi italiani ci indignamo molto per gli "stupri etnici" (veri o
presunti) solo se commessi da popolazioni barbariche.
Infatti noi italiani non andiamo con le prostitute - e non siamo
stupratori! Mai stati! (E nemmeno colonizzatori!)
Le guerre nei Balcani ed in Africa orientale le abbiamo sempre fatte per
aiutare quei poverini.
Il sesso a pagamento anche?
---
NEL KOSOVO OCCUPATO, AMMETTONO ANCHE NATO ED ONU,
LE DONNE SONO RIDOTTE IN SCHIAVITU'
http://www.workers.org/ww/2000/kosovo0525.html
Workers World newspaper
May 25, 2000
In occupied Kosovo
NATO, UN admit women are enslaved
By Leslie Feinberg
---
KOSOVO: LA TRATTA DELLE SCHIAVE DIVENTA UN PROBLEMA SERIO
http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2000/05/F.RU.000519123012.html
Kosovo: Sex-Slave Trade Becomes A Serious Problem
By Alexandra Poolos
Women from former East Bloc countries are being trafficked in large
numbers
to former Yugoslav territories to serve as prostitutes for the area's
large
population of soldiers and aid workers. In Part Two of a two-part series
on
trafficking of East European women, RFE/RL correspondent Alexandra
Poolos
reports on the sex-slave trade in a former war zone.
Prague, 19 May 2000 (RFE/RL)
---
SESSO ALL'ASTA: PROSPERA L'INDUSTRIA SCHIAVISTICA IN EUROPA
...un reportage da ROMA !!!
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,,244011,00.html
MeMail: World News & Comment from The Guardian
AUCTIONS FOR SEX: EUROPE'S THRIVING SLAVERY INDUSTRY
Angela always liked attention, but the day she was forced
to stand naked on a block for men to poke, pinch and haggle
over her worth ended that.
http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,,244011,00.html
Auctions for sex: Europe's thriving slavery industry
Women tell of being sold to pimps by the Balkan mafia and beaten if they
resist or fail to earn enough on the streets
Rory Carroll in Rome Tuesday May 23, 2000
---
ATTENZIONE AL COMMERCIO SESSUALE IN KOSOVO
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_761000/761183.stm
BBC World Service
Wednesday, 24 May, 2000, 22:05 GMT 23:05 UK
Kosovo sex slave trade warning
By Nicholas Wood in Pristina
---
LANCIATA UNA CAMPAGNA CONTRO LA PROSTITUZIONE FORZATA IN KOSOVO
STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM
Thursday, May 25 12:51 AM SGT
Group launches campaign against forced prostitution in Kosovo
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, May 24 (AFP) -
NATO-led troops and United Nations workers in Kosovo have fed a
mushrooming sex trade in which young girls are being forced into
prostitution by criminal gangs, officials said Wednesay.
The explosion in prostitution in the Yugoslav province was largely down
to the international presence there, said Pasquale Lupoli, a spokesman
for the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).
Lupoli was launching a campaign against forced prostitution from the
regional capital Pristina to raise awareness among UN workers, KFOR
troops and aid agency employees of the violence and intimidation used
against the women.
Many had been lured from eastern Europe with the promise of jobs in the
catering or leisure industry, but had then been forced into
prostitution, said Lupoli.
"Once they cross the borders, the victims can be beaten up, sold, and
their documents seized," he added.
There had been a "mushrooming of night clubs" and brothels in Kosovo
since 40,000 KFOR troops and thousands of United Nations workers arrived
in June
The Yugoslav province had not previously been known as a centre of the
sex trade, said Lupoli.
"The large international presence in Kosovo itself makes this
trafficking possible," he added.
Seventy percent of the women had never been prostitutes before arriving
in Kosovo. Aged between 16 and 25, they were living in Kosovo in
difficult conditions "maltreated and with very little medical
attention", said Lupoli.
The IOM helped repatriate women trying to return to their home country,
said Lupoli. So far, it had helped 50 women, but he added: "It's the tip
of the iceberg."
Nearly half were from Moldova, while others were from Ukraine, Romania
and Bulgaria.
The UN deputy police commissioner Gilles Moreau for Pristina said no
brothel-keeper had so far been caught despite the fact that pimping is
illegal, even though prostitution is not.
"We're making progress on this matter, but we are not yet a force with
25 years of experience," said the Canadian officer.
Some brothels simply moved when police started gathering information on
them: others were based in people's homes.
He said organised crime was behind the sex trade in Kosovo, pointing the
finger at expatriate Kosovars.
Some of the people behind the trade had offered their prostitutes to
former KLA members the now-disbanded ethnic Albanian guerilla force, for
free.
The IOM campaign is also being run in Bulgaria and Hungary, using
leaflets, posters and radio messages.
The campaign carries the slogan: "You pay for a night -- She pays with
her life."
---
MAFIA ALBANESE GESTISCE LE SCHIAVE AD ANVERSA (BELGIO)
> Subject: Albanian Mob Smuggles 500,000 Sex Slaves A Year Into W. Europe
>
>
> http://www.the-times.co.uk (World)
>
> The Times (London)
> May 18 2000 EUROPE
>
>
>
> MEPs are urged to free sex slaves
>
> FROM MARTIN FLETCHER IN ANTWERP
>
>
>
> IN ANTWERP'S red-light district, young men from Albania, Turkey and Russia
> loiter on corners with
> knives hidden under their leather jackets. The police The men count how
many
> customers are lured by the
> near-naked girls posing in street-front windows, so they can check that
the
> girls do not try to keep the
> £17 that each client pays for sex behind a curtain.
> They also see that the prostitutes do not flee, for they are "owned" by
the
> watchers, who entice them from
> their homelands with promises of well-paid jobs, then force them into
> prostitution.
>
> About 500,000 women from Eastern Europe, Russia and Turkey are smuggled
into
> Western Europe by criminal
> gangs each year, according to a report to be presented to the European
> Parliament today by its Women's Rights
> Committee. They are kidnapped, or sold by their families. Many are minors.
> The women "are victims of
> violence, threats, ill-treatment, incarceration and extortion, and have to
> pay off considerable debts to
> meet the cost of their transport and documents," the report says.
>
> "They are illegal residents, and the fact that they have been robbed of
> their money and identity documents
> deprives them of any hope of improving their situation. If they resist
their
> traffickers and pimps,
> they face the threat of their families being told about their activities
as
> prostitutes." Many become
> drug addicts.
>
> The report's author, Patsy Sorensen, a 47-year-old Belgian MEP, runs a
> prostitutes' refuge in the
> red-light district. It sends workers into the local streets and bars.
> Sometimes girls signal from their
> windows that they need help or send messages through clients. Others are
> brought to the refuge by the
> police. Last year the refuge rescued more than 200 girls, but 90 were too
> scared to press charges. Some
> returned to their pimps.
>
> Ms Sorensen, who needed police protection last year, says that she used to
> be able to reason with the
> pimps, but adds: "Today it's much more dangerous. All the pimps have
> weapons. They are killers." Last year
> there were 12 shootings involving the gangs.
>
> Flori, a 16-year-old girl from Romania, is in one of the refuge's safe
> houses after she fled from her
> captors. She told The Times, in broken English, how an Albanian named Bimi
> had approached her in a café near
> her school in the town of Drobeta-Turnu Severin. He promised her a good
job
> in a restaurant in Belgium or
> Italy, and she left home without telling her parents. She and five
> girlfriends were ferried to Serbia, then
> driven to Albania, where three of the girls were sold for DM3,000 (£917).
>
> Flori was shipped to the Italian port of Bari with Larissa, a 19-year-old
> Moldovan who had been promised
> two months' work in Cyprus. Bimi and two other Albanians drove the girls
> through France to Belgium.
> In Antwerp, they were locked in a room and told they had to work to repay
> their travel costs.
>
> Only when they saw the prostitutes in the windows did they realise their
> fate. "I said: 'My God, what's
> this. I'm 16 years'," said Flori. "Bimi said: 'If you don't work, I will
> beat you. If you don't do good with
> me, maybe I shoot you.' "
>
> Flori was lucky. She fled before developing what the report describes as
the
> "state of extreme dependency"
> that ends up tying prostitutes to their pimps. When a passing police car
> distracted her watcher, she ran
> into the street in her bikini and dived into a taxi that took her to a
> police station. "It was worse than
> a nightmare," she said.
>
> Ms Sorensen's report says that membership of the EU should be made
> conditional upon the applicant
> country's cracking down on this trade in prostitutes which it calls an
> "intolerable violation" of human
> rights. It also calls for co-ordinated policing, tougher penalties and
more
> help for victims. The
> Parliament is expected to approve the report and to pass it to the
European
> Commission and member states
> for consideration. But Ms Sorensen is wary of rhetoric that changes
little.
> "There is a common view that
> they're only prostitutes," she says.
>
> She may have another reason to be sceptical. A Swedish MEP, Marianne
> Eriksson, recently complained that
> "hundreds" of prostitutes arrive in Strasbourg whenever the Parliament,
> which is mainly male, meets there.
--------- COORDINAMENTO ROMANO PER LA JUGOSLAVIA -----------
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DECINE DI MIGLIAIA DI RAGAZZE DALL'EUROPA ORIENTALE
RIDOTTE IN SCHIAVITU'. COSA C'E' DIETRO?
Noi italiani ci indignamo molto per gli "stupri etnici" (veri o
presunti) solo se commessi da popolazioni barbariche.
Infatti noi italiani non andiamo con le prostitute - e non siamo
stupratori! Mai stati! (E nemmeno colonizzatori!)
Le guerre nei Balcani ed in Africa orientale le abbiamo sempre fatte per
aiutare quei poverini.
Il sesso a pagamento anche?
---
NEL KOSOVO OCCUPATO, AMMETTONO ANCHE NATO ED ONU,
LE DONNE SONO RIDOTTE IN SCHIAVITU'
http://www.workers.org/ww/2000/kosovo0525.html
Workers World newspaper
May 25, 2000
In occupied Kosovo
NATO, UN admit women are enslaved
By Leslie Feinberg
---
KOSOVO: LA TRATTA DELLE SCHIAVE DIVENTA UN PROBLEMA SERIO
http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2000/05/F.RU.000519123012.html
Kosovo: Sex-Slave Trade Becomes A Serious Problem
By Alexandra Poolos
Women from former East Bloc countries are being trafficked in large
numbers
to former Yugoslav territories to serve as prostitutes for the area's
large
population of soldiers and aid workers. In Part Two of a two-part series
on
trafficking of East European women, RFE/RL correspondent Alexandra
Poolos
reports on the sex-slave trade in a former war zone.
Prague, 19 May 2000 (RFE/RL)
---
SESSO ALL'ASTA: PROSPERA L'INDUSTRIA SCHIAVISTICA IN EUROPA
...un reportage da ROMA !!!
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,,244011,00.html
MeMail: World News & Comment from The Guardian
AUCTIONS FOR SEX: EUROPE'S THRIVING SLAVERY INDUSTRY
Angela always liked attention, but the day she was forced
to stand naked on a block for men to poke, pinch and haggle
over her worth ended that.
http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,,244011,00.html
Auctions for sex: Europe's thriving slavery industry
Women tell of being sold to pimps by the Balkan mafia and beaten if they
resist or fail to earn enough on the streets
Rory Carroll in Rome Tuesday May 23, 2000
---
ATTENZIONE AL COMMERCIO SESSUALE IN KOSOVO
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_761000/761183.stm
BBC World Service
Wednesday, 24 May, 2000, 22:05 GMT 23:05 UK
Kosovo sex slave trade warning
By Nicholas Wood in Pristina
---
LANCIATA UNA CAMPAGNA CONTRO LA PROSTITUZIONE FORZATA IN KOSOVO
STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM
Thursday, May 25 12:51 AM SGT
Group launches campaign against forced prostitution in Kosovo
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, May 24 (AFP) -
NATO-led troops and United Nations workers in Kosovo have fed a
mushrooming sex trade in which young girls are being forced into
prostitution by criminal gangs, officials said Wednesay.
The explosion in prostitution in the Yugoslav province was largely down
to the international presence there, said Pasquale Lupoli, a spokesman
for the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).
Lupoli was launching a campaign against forced prostitution from the
regional capital Pristina to raise awareness among UN workers, KFOR
troops and aid agency employees of the violence and intimidation used
against the women.
Many had been lured from eastern Europe with the promise of jobs in the
catering or leisure industry, but had then been forced into
prostitution, said Lupoli.
"Once they cross the borders, the victims can be beaten up, sold, and
their documents seized," he added.
There had been a "mushrooming of night clubs" and brothels in Kosovo
since 40,000 KFOR troops and thousands of United Nations workers arrived
in June
The Yugoslav province had not previously been known as a centre of the
sex trade, said Lupoli.
"The large international presence in Kosovo itself makes this
trafficking possible," he added.
Seventy percent of the women had never been prostitutes before arriving
in Kosovo. Aged between 16 and 25, they were living in Kosovo in
difficult conditions "maltreated and with very little medical
attention", said Lupoli.
The IOM helped repatriate women trying to return to their home country,
said Lupoli. So far, it had helped 50 women, but he added: "It's the tip
of the iceberg."
Nearly half were from Moldova, while others were from Ukraine, Romania
and Bulgaria.
The UN deputy police commissioner Gilles Moreau for Pristina said no
brothel-keeper had so far been caught despite the fact that pimping is
illegal, even though prostitution is not.
"We're making progress on this matter, but we are not yet a force with
25 years of experience," said the Canadian officer.
Some brothels simply moved when police started gathering information on
them: others were based in people's homes.
He said organised crime was behind the sex trade in Kosovo, pointing the
finger at expatriate Kosovars.
Some of the people behind the trade had offered their prostitutes to
former KLA members the now-disbanded ethnic Albanian guerilla force, for
free.
The IOM campaign is also being run in Bulgaria and Hungary, using
leaflets, posters and radio messages.
The campaign carries the slogan: "You pay for a night -- She pays with
her life."
---
MAFIA ALBANESE GESTISCE LE SCHIAVE AD ANVERSA (BELGIO)
> Subject: Albanian Mob Smuggles 500,000 Sex Slaves A Year Into W. Europe
>
>
> http://www.the-times.co.uk (World)
>
> The Times (London)
> May 18 2000 EUROPE
>
>
>
> MEPs are urged to free sex slaves
>
> FROM MARTIN FLETCHER IN ANTWERP
>
>
>
> IN ANTWERP'S red-light district, young men from Albania, Turkey and Russia
> loiter on corners with
> knives hidden under their leather jackets. The police The men count how
many
> customers are lured by the
> near-naked girls posing in street-front windows, so they can check that
the
> girls do not try to keep the
> £17 that each client pays for sex behind a curtain.
> They also see that the prostitutes do not flee, for they are "owned" by
the
> watchers, who entice them from
> their homelands with promises of well-paid jobs, then force them into
> prostitution.
>
> About 500,000 women from Eastern Europe, Russia and Turkey are smuggled
into
> Western Europe by criminal
> gangs each year, according to a report to be presented to the European
> Parliament today by its Women's Rights
> Committee. They are kidnapped, or sold by their families. Many are minors.
> The women "are victims of
> violence, threats, ill-treatment, incarceration and extortion, and have to
> pay off considerable debts to
> meet the cost of their transport and documents," the report says.
>
> "They are illegal residents, and the fact that they have been robbed of
> their money and identity documents
> deprives them of any hope of improving their situation. If they resist
their
> traffickers and pimps,
> they face the threat of their families being told about their activities
as
> prostitutes." Many become
> drug addicts.
>
> The report's author, Patsy Sorensen, a 47-year-old Belgian MEP, runs a
> prostitutes' refuge in the
> red-light district. It sends workers into the local streets and bars.
> Sometimes girls signal from their
> windows that they need help or send messages through clients. Others are
> brought to the refuge by the
> police. Last year the refuge rescued more than 200 girls, but 90 were too
> scared to press charges. Some
> returned to their pimps.
>
> Ms Sorensen, who needed police protection last year, says that she used to
> be able to reason with the
> pimps, but adds: "Today it's much more dangerous. All the pimps have
> weapons. They are killers." Last year
> there were 12 shootings involving the gangs.
>
> Flori, a 16-year-old girl from Romania, is in one of the refuge's safe
> houses after she fled from her
> captors. She told The Times, in broken English, how an Albanian named Bimi
> had approached her in a café near
> her school in the town of Drobeta-Turnu Severin. He promised her a good
job
> in a restaurant in Belgium or
> Italy, and she left home without telling her parents. She and five
> girlfriends were ferried to Serbia, then
> driven to Albania, where three of the girls were sold for DM3,000 (£917).
>
> Flori was shipped to the Italian port of Bari with Larissa, a 19-year-old
> Moldovan who had been promised
> two months' work in Cyprus. Bimi and two other Albanians drove the girls
> through France to Belgium.
> In Antwerp, they were locked in a room and told they had to work to repay
> their travel costs.
>
> Only when they saw the prostitutes in the windows did they realise their
> fate. "I said: 'My God, what's
> this. I'm 16 years'," said Flori. "Bimi said: 'If you don't work, I will
> beat you. If you don't do good with
> me, maybe I shoot you.' "
>
> Flori was lucky. She fled before developing what the report describes as
the
> "state of extreme dependency"
> that ends up tying prostitutes to their pimps. When a passing police car
> distracted her watcher, she ran
> into the street in her bikini and dived into a taxi that took her to a
> police station. "It was worse than
> a nightmare," she said.
>
> Ms Sorensen's report says that membership of the EU should be made
> conditional upon the applicant
> country's cracking down on this trade in prostitutes which it calls an
> "intolerable violation" of human
> rights. It also calls for co-ordinated policing, tougher penalties and
more
> help for victims. The
> Parliament is expected to approve the report and to pass it to the
European
> Commission and member states
> for consideration. But Ms Sorensen is wary of rhetoric that changes
little.
> "There is a common view that
> they're only prostitutes," she says.
>
> She may have another reason to be sceptical. A Swedish MEP, Marianne
> Eriksson, recently complained that
> "hundreds" of prostitutes arrive in Strasbourg whenever the Parliament,
> which is mainly male, meets there.
--------- COORDINAMENTO ROMANO PER LA JUGOSLAVIA -----------
RIMSKI SAVEZ ZA JUGOSLAVIJU
e-mail: crj@... - URL: http://marx2001.org/crj
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