Engeland se slawehandel

Daar was redelik onlangs berigte van leiers in Afrika lande waar slawehandel steeds plaasvind, is nie net in die tydperk wat Engeland erken in hul verlede nie – dit wat hulle gedoen het en ander is ook nie aanvaarbaar vir niemand nie.    Daar verdwyn steeds baie persone, vroue en veral kinders.

‘n Nuwe benaming vir die handeldryf in mense is “human trafficking or human body parts”.   Dit bestaan steeds.   Beide is verkeerd.  Die wat handel dryf, maar die grootste sondebokke is die wat die “slawe” eerstens verkoop aan die rykes om dan te misbruik, of vir geld of vir wapens / drugs.

Aanbod en aanvraag loop hand aan hand, en as die een hul eie mense of hul organe verruil vir geld, is dit handeldryf in slawe of as die se organe gebruik word en hulle aangewend word as slawe.    Lande en leiers moet tot verantwoording geroep word.

Wie is daardie magsbeheptes wat in beheer is van handel van mense en organe?  Regerings laat dit toe.

Slawe soos almal bewus is, verdien nie inkomste nie, vir “dienste”, soos seks of ander gevaarlike werke.  hulle word ook ingespan om “drugs” te verkoop nadat hulle daarmee gevoer is.   Iemand wat werk en inkomste verdien, is geen slaaf nie.   Diegene wat inkomste maak uit slawehandel of vir wapens handel dryf, moet 30-40 jaar toegesluit word en families behoort vergoed te word vir hierdie trauma’s en skok waardeur hulle moet gaan.  Wanneer ‘n familielid verdwyn vir handeldryf, moet hierdie meesters vasgevat word.  En dit geld ook in die verlede.  Engeland het hulle baie skuldig gemaak hieraan, maar die wat slawe voorsien het, is netso skuldig hieraan.    Jong kinders word in sindikate gebruik as seksslawe.  Totaal en al onaanvaarbaar.  Hierdie mense, wat soms ook pedofiele is, moet verewig toegesluit word.

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Britain’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade was an appalling atrocity that has left an “indelible stain” on the world, Prince Charles has acknowledged.

The heir to the UK’s throne made the comments in a speech in Ghana, from where many Africans were shipped away to a life of slavery, most across the Atlantic, on ships from Britain and other nations.

Charles said the “profound injustice” of that legacy could never be forgotten, adding: “At Osu Castle on Saturday, it was especially important to me, as indeed it was on my first visit there 41 years ago, that I should acknowledge the most painful chapter of Ghana’s relations with the nations of Europe, including the United Kingdom.

“The appalling atrocity of the slave trade, and the unimaginable suffering it caused, left an indelible stain on the history of our world.”

Charles had visited Christiansborg Castle in Osu, which originally operated as a Danish slave trade fort and from where it is estimated more than 1.5 million Africans were forced into slavery.

The castle later became the seat of the Ghanaian government after the country’s independence from Britain in 1957.

Britain had been involved in the transatlantic slave trade for more than 200 years by the time it abolished the trade in 1807, although the full abolition of slavery did not follow for another generation.

The British taxpayer paid out large sums in compensation to former slave owners, though none was handed to the people who had been enslaved. Many of them were even forced to work on for years without pay after slavery.

“While Britain can be proud that it later led the way in the abolition of this shameful trade, we have a shared responsibility to ensure that the abject horror of slavery is never forgotten,” Charles told his audience in Ghana.

Charles’ intervention was a significant step towards officially acknowledging the damage the UK helped to cause during the period, with the royal family having faced repeated calls from some quarters to apologise for the country’s part in it.

The prince and his wife, Camilla, are on the second leg of a tour of three African nations, having already visited Gambia, which he congratulated for turning its back on autocratic rule and returning to the Commonwealth, before he heads to Nigeria on Tuesday.

In his speech in Accra, Charles, who was approved as successor to his 92-year-old mother, Queen Elizabeth, as head of the Commonwealth earlier this year, spoke of the role the loose alliance of 53 member states could play in tackling climate change, a key campaigning issue of the prince.

“In such an uncertain and changing world, none of us can know what kind of a planet our grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, will inhabit, but the Commonwealth … offers us a vital mechanism to help ensure that it is not poisoned and polluted and that its vitality is not compromised,” he said.

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2018

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a21724621/human-trafficking-uk-survivor/

2019

Most people associate the term ‘trafficking’ with victims being moved between countries in the back of lorries, but the reality can be far closer to home. Indeed, many – like Rose, who grew up in Nigeria – are from overseas, but others are UK-born nationals, including children and vulnerable teenagers who may have been in foster care or find themselves homeless due to domestic abuse. A report in January revealed that people lured by individuals or gangs and held against their will in the UK are now more likely to be British than any other nationality, overtaking Albanian, Vietnamese, Romanian and Chinese nationals for the first time. One in eight slavery victims reported to the police is a child from the UK aged 17 or under, with 432 British children reported to the authorities in the space of nine months last year.

Taking a look inside Britain’s shocking sex-trafficking crisis