Sex Slaves for NATO/KFOR Troops http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins2000/tim2000-5-6.html

PRAGUE, May 19 - We’ve reported in several of our prior TiM Bulletins that drug use and trade were blossoming in NATO-“liberated” Kosovo, with KFOR troops, especially American and British soldiers, being the main targets for the Kosovo Albanian drug pushers (see “Drugs and Prostitution Blossom within KFOR”). This “Standstill at the Bondstill” (name of the large American base in Kosovo) should come as no surprise, given the longtime ties between the CIA and the KLA (see “CIA’s Ties to the KLA”).

Well, add to it now the trade in sex slaves, especially with women from Eastern Europe. That’s another example of “progress” that the “international community” has also brought into this Serbian province, along with its KFOR troops. Nor is this a new phenomenon. It merely follows the pattern established four years ago, when the NATO troops similarly occupied Bosnia.

Here’s an excerpt from a May 19 report by the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty that the TiM received from Prague:

“Sex-slave trade in Eastern European women -- one of the major crime scourges of post-communist Europe -- is becoming a serious problem in Kosovo. As a former war zone, Kosovo is a prime location for the burgeoning trafficking trade. Porous borders, the presence of a large clientele in the form of international troops and aid workers, and the lack of a working criminal justice system offer excellent conditions for the sex-slave trade.

East European women make up much of the “work force” in Kosovo's underground brothels. Their native countries are close by and are home to well-established organized-crime networks.

In the past six months, United Nations peacekeepers and police have rescued women from Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and Albania. The police say that most of these women and girls -- some as young as 15 -- were transported from their home countries to Macedonia, which borders Kosovo to the south. There, they were held in motels and sold at auction to ethnic Albanian pimps for $1,000 to $2,500.

The women were stripped of their passports and held in unsanitary conditions in bars or motels. They were then forced to engage in unprotected sex with local police and international peacekeepers for no payment. They were told that before they could keep any of their earnings, they first had to pay the pimps for their purchase price and the cost of their travel. If the women resisted, they were beaten.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, or OSCE, has provided support for women victims released from brothels by UN police and NATO-led peacekeepers. Rolf Welberts, the OSCE's human-rights director in Kosovo, says his organization has assisted some 50 women. He believes the number of women still held in bondage is much higher: "We're talking about women from Eastern Europe who are brought into Kosovo to serve as prostitutes, or when they arrive they're submitted to conditions that they didn't know about -- meaning passports taken away, money withheld, and so on. It is a form of slave trade."

Welberts says that "internationals" -- foreign (KFOR) soldiers and aid workers -- are very often brothel patrons. The same phenomenon also exists in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where the presence of peacekeepers and aid workers initiated a major trade in trafficked women from Eastern Europe that continues to thrive today.

Human Rights Watch -- an international monitoring organization -- documented that women from Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, and Albania were lured into Bosnia by promises of legal work and safe passage. When they arrived, brothel owners seized their passports and subjected them to slave-like practices. They were often sold from one brothel owner to another, with the women forced to work without wages.

Human Rights Watch says that international officials were aware of the (sex) trafficking problem in Bosnia, but did little to combat it. The organization says that some officials were actively complicit in the abuses, participating in the forced prostitution of the women or patronizing the brothels.

Jill Thompson -- an adviser on trafficking issues for the OSCE's Warsaw-based human-rights office -- estimates the number of trafficked women throughout the former Yugoslavia in the tens of thousands.”

For the full RFE/RL report, check out http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2000/05/F.RU.000519123012.html .

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TiM Ed.: And just where are now all those "Amazing UN Amazon Women," such as Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright and others, when these Eastern European female sex slaves of the New World Order need them to defend their human rights? By contrast, check out a story about the Russian prostitutes who refused to provide their services to NATO sailors in April 1997 on patriotic grounds.