For this word, people generally associate it with key words such as backwardness, feudalism and ignorance. But this word, which should have disappeared in history, reappeared in civilized society.

At first glance, the world has already entered a civilized society. From mobile phones and air conditioners to airplanes and rockets, technology is changing with each passing day and human civilization is booming. With the development of culture and technology, it seems that the world has long been out of slavery, and everyone's fate is in their own hands.

But in fact, in the dark corner where the sun can't shine, there is still an evil slave trade.

While people enjoy the convenience brought by civilized society, some people are whipped, enslaved, treated as cheap goods and resold by slaves. ......

Just a few years ago, Britain cracked the biggest slave case in modern times, and more than 400 people were forced into slavery. This case has also uncovered the tip of the iceberg of the human trafficking industry, and made more and more people pay attention to and think about the human trafficking problem.

So how did the victim become a slave? What kind of life did they lead after being forced into slavery? Is international human trafficking really far away from us?

According to the announcement issued by the United Nations, there are 1 18 countries in the world with known cases of human trafficking. And those victims, at least from 136 different countries. Among them, the Middle East, Western Europe, North America and other regions are the main population inflow regions. East Asia, Eastern Europe and South America are the main export areas of human trafficking.

It is understood that there are at least 5 10 human trafficking flows in the world, with more than 20 million victims of human trafficking. Take Britain as an example. In just 20 17 a year, 5 145 victims from different countries were found one after another.

The number of people being trafficked is staggering.

At the same time, many people are puzzled:

Why are there slaves? And how did these victims become slaves?

In fact, some clues can be found in the biggest modern slave case that broke out in Britain a few years ago. At that time, as all eight suspects were arrested by the police, their crimes gradually surfaced. ......

According to a victim named Miroslaw Lyman, he met the suspect when he was just released from prison in 20 14. According to his description, the scene was restored to something like this.

"Hey, man, do you want a well-paid job? I know a place abroad that not only has less work and more money, but also includes food and shelter. "

"As long as a few years, you almost don't have to worry about a lifetime. I won't tell anyone about this good thing, but I won't tell you unless you have sex with me. "

"What? You said you had no money to buy a plane ticket? This is not a problem. I can put it on you first and give it back to me when I get paid. "

A conversation like this sounds absurd, because it is too beautiful for ordinary people to be easily fooled. But Miroslaw just got out of prison, and it's really hard to find a job. At that time, the suspect caught his heart and always tempted him with high salary.

In this way, Miroslaw finally followed the suspect to Britain with the idea of taking a chance. But it was not until he arrived in England that he found himself cheated. He didn't get a well-paid job, and even he complained in tears: "Life in prison is much better than this!" " "

It turned out that after Miroslaw arrived in England, he was strictly controlled and became one of many slaves. There, many people who were cheated like him crowded into a shabby house in the countryside.

Miroslaw said numbly in an interview: "There is no heating or hot water here. We can only sleep on the ground or on a straw mat, covered with our own clothes ... "

Miroslaw thought about running away after discovering that he had been cheated, but it was too late. Not only is it strict, but even if it shows a little dissatisfaction, it will be beaten up.

Meanwhile, Miroslaw and others were forced to work all day at the request of traffickers. He is doing hard work almost all day, such as decorating, painting and mowing the lawn. He has to work at least 12~ 13 hours every day.

What makes Miroslaw even more miserable is that his salary is completely inversely proportional to his heavy work. At the end of the day, he sometimes only gets 50 pence. If converted into RMB, his job only brought him less income than 5 yuan's.

As for his real salary, it fell into the hands of traffickers. Through human trafficking and exploitation, they squeezed about $2 million in profits for themselves.

While the criminals are buying luxury houses, driving luxury cars and having fun, Miloslav can only drag his tired body back to the dilapidated and crowded room.

After a hard day's work, Miroslaw urgently needs a bath to wash away the smelly sweat, but there is obviously no such facility in the room. Forced, he can only go to the canal to solve the problem of bathing simply like others.

At that time, there were not only Miroslaw, but also Mariusz Rycaczewksi who came out for interviews. He said that criminal gangs hardly let him rest. He said, "It takes us 90 minutes to go to work every day. I pick vegetables in the rain. "

Only by completing these heavy tasks can he get a meager reward. Even if those rewards are extremely low, they still don't belong to him. Because he will be charged for cigarettes, inferior food and so on.

Criminal gangs call this "a huge debt owed by immigrants."

So they hardly have enough to eat, and they have completely become a tool for criminal gangs to make money. Faced with such harsh oppression, other victims such as Miroslaw and Mariush naturally want to ask for help. But obviously, they can't escape at all.

As soon as they arrive in Britain, their ID cards and other documents will be taken away by force. Even if you go out to work, you will be closely monitored and it is difficult to find opportunities for help. Even if it is rare to find opportunities, it is difficult for them to communicate with the outside world, because they are Polish and can't speak English.

Those who tried to break through the blockade by violence were also beaten black and blue and threatened to drag him into the forest and bury him alive.

This case in Britain is actually just a microcosm of human trafficking in the world. In other countries, similar cases are still being staged in turn. If you are tricked into being a slave by accident, there are more than that waiting for them.

If someone accidentally gets lost and is detained as a slave, it will be roughly divided into three categories.

One of them is labor.

It is reported that hundreds of laborers live on a remote island in Indonesia. They need to work long hours, but they can only eat very little rice every day. If they are thirsty, they can only make do with dirty water. As for the sleeping place, it is a cage that can barely stand up when sitting down.

For them, rest is an extremely extravagant thing. Most of these workers are from Myanmar. When they signed the agreement, they thought they would have a decent job. But what they didn't expect was that they were forced to work 20 to 22 hours a day in order to get a little money. Even that little money, sometimes they can't come up with it.

Usually ship owners take it out on them if they are slightly dissatisfied. In the eyes of ship owners, they are tools and slaves, but they are not people. Some people are disabled, and some people are directly killed. In this case, some people would rather commit suicide by jumping into the sea than continue to be abused. There are also some people who choose to drag out an ignoble existence and look forward to the rescue that they don't know when it will come.

In the long wait and torture, they dare not get sick, because they are sick and can't get treatment at all. But long hours of work and harsh environment are eroding their original healthy bodies. As a result, they got sick one after another.

When a large number of people are sick, ship owners will swear. If people are seriously ill and can't continue to work, ship owners will throw them into the sea to save medical expenses.

When they were rescued, in fact, many people were desperate and never dreamed that they could wait for rescue. A worker in his thirties who got out of trouble said, "If Americans and Europeans eat these fish, they should remember us. Because at the bottom of the sea, the body of my dead companion is enough to pile up into an island. "

In addition to becoming workers, involuntary victims may also become sex workers.

20 17 held a special auction in the dark net. The "object" of the auction is not any paintings or gems, but a young woman with a good face.

Her name is Chloe Arryn. She used to be a model and lived a dull and happy life. But from the moment she was kidnapped, she was forced to step into the darkness.

According to the auction photos, she was lying flat on the marble floor with a label on her stomach. It says some basic information about her: 19 years old, English model, white, 34d-25-35, 300,000 US dollars, global delivery, European postage.

In addition, the note also indicates the purchase method, website address and brief information of the buyer. After Chloe was auctioned, she heard some news through the kidnappers. It is said that they belong to an organization called the Black Death. The task of the members of this organization is to kidnap people everywhere and then sell them to others to become sex workers.

These poor people will not only be abused by buyers, but even sold to others after they are not interested, and forced to trade with many men every day. Then, there is a new round of torture.

However, although Chloe was kidnapped, she escaped because she was the mother of a 2-year-old child. After extorting 50,000 euros from Chloe's agent, the kidnappers sent Chloe to the vicinity of the British Consulate. It is also for this reason that he was captured by the police who ambushed here.

Chloe is lucky, but many people are still bought and sold like toys and become tools to make money or vent their desires. In this process, their bodies are often seriously damaged. At this time, they will become the third carrier of human organs in the eyes of human trafficking organizations.

For these slaves, employers and human trafficking organizations will drain them of their last value. It is understood that dead sex workers will be frozen by their employers and ready to sell all kinds of organs that can still be used.

In addition to the familiar heart, kidney and so on. Even hair and bones are within the scope of the transaction. Blood can separate plasma, red blood cells and platelets. Treat patients on the operating table. Ligaments can scrape the injured person's knees.

If a man dies, he still has sperm available. Because it can make women pregnant and have children, and then sell the children to those who need them.

Even if ordinary people seem to have no marketable bones, they are profitable in their eyes. They will make the tibia into a flute and sell it to Buddhists in Bhutan. ...

Seeing this, some people may say that these look terrible, but they are far from real life, so there is no need to worry too much. But is this really the case?

Trafficking channels, be vigilant.

Before that, let's look at a table compiled according to the data of the American dating software OkCupid.

This table shows that Asian women are particularly popular in the dating market. This also shows from an angle that Asian women are more likely to be kidnapped and trafficked than other women.

Seeing this, some people will say, it doesn't matter, after all, our country is very safe. This is really good. According to the 20 18 global public security report released by American polling company Gaplo, China's public security index ranks in the top ten.

But our national security does not mean that accidents will not happen. To this end, it is necessary to briefly understand several ways of criminals committing crimes in order to plan ahead. There are roughly three ways.

First, it is transnational work.

That's how the suspect Miroslaw met mentioned above controlled him. They are an organization. In order to improve the success rate, they usually crouch in front of Polish prisons, so that they can seduce innocent victims.

In addition, criminals will also look to vagrants, alcoholics and so on. Such people have a strong desire for money and are easily persuaded. In a real case, a criminal gang even deceived a man who tried to commit suicide. First, they use high salaries to arouse the victims' hope for life, and then they pull the victims to another abyss.

With the rapid development of science and technology, some criminals began to change their methods in order to improve efficiency. They will post some false recruitment information online. Almost all of these recruitment information has a * * * feature, with an easy monthly income of more than 100,000 yuan, and requires low academic qualifications and unlimited work experience. In a few years, you will be able to save a rich family, and buying a house in Beishangguang is no longer a dream.

In this way, some people who want to get rich will be cheated and step into the trap.

Second, it is transnational marriage.

In life, there are often people who are not satisfied with the current development status and want to go to developed countries to seek a better development environment. However, there are various restrictions on development in other countries. If you want to develop smoothly, you'd better try to get a green card. As a result, some criminals took the opportunity to move and said they could get married and get a green card.

In order to enjoy the prosperity of developed countries, some women will be fooled, leading to a tragic ending.

The third is to travel abroad.

Generally speaking, if you go abroad with a regular travel agency and don't run around, it is still very safe. But if some people want to come here for some excitement, they will be targeted by criminals.

For example, if someone goes to Thailand, they may go to some mixed nightclubs to see a shemale. Then this is actually gambling with life, because Thailand has another title-"global human trafficking transit station".

Of course, this is not just a country. In different countries, you may be in danger. Then some people may ask, is it relatively safe to stay in a luxury hotel with or without a group?

Actually, this is really relative. Because single women are really easily targeted by some criminals.

In 20 14, a 24-year-old girl from China was traveling in Paris, Liu Qu, and she was almost desperate.

At that time, Liu specially booked a prestigious luxury hotel for safety reasons. In the middle of the night, she was woken up by the hotel phone and told to go downstairs to the front desk to verify the information, but did not tell her the reason for verifying the information.

This made Liu instinctively feel that something was wrong and didn't go down, but before long, her door was knocked. The voice on the phone rang at the door just now, and seriously asked her to go down and cooperate with the work as soon as possible.

Although Liu still has some concerns, she feels that her living environment is safe, and it would be bad if she really caused trouble because of information errors. So, after the man at the door left, she struggled to walk down in her pajamas.

Then, Liu saw the empty hotel front desk, the white van parked at the door, and two burly men. This made her suddenly wake up, frantically bypassed the corridor and hid in the innermost side of the cleaning room.

Fortunately, it was just a lucky escape. Afterwards, I received a short message from Liu for help, and my friend who came in a hurry criticized her with a lingering fear and said, "How can you trust people like this? In Paris, don't say you are a woman, even if I am a big man, I dare not go downstairs in the middle of the night, and I may be killed! "

Later, I learned about Liu. Someone stole the hotel's check-in information. On the day of the accident, she came back from shopping in the mall and was already targeted.

The United Nations once said that human trafficking has become the third largest international black industry after drug and arms trade. About 38.5 million people in the world are still in the state of "modern slaves" (forced labor, forced marriage, human trafficking, etc.). ).

If there is human trafficking, there will naturally be activities to combat it.

20 10 In July, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the United Nations Global Action Plan to Combat Trafficking in Persons. 20 18 China establishes national immigration bureau to crack down on illegal immigrants. ...

In addition to the government's unremitting efforts to safeguard public safety, individuals should also be vigilant and always keep safety in mind.