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first place?
Were any of them even still alive?
Mr. Alaric is only sure on three things. They are all from Eastern Europe and Asia. They are under 18. And they had been bought and sold as slaves in the bustling human flesh markets of Balkans.
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The problem is particularly acute in the violent backwaters of the former Yugoslavia; in cities such as Pale and Srebrenica, where there is little policing. UN soldiers here maintain an uneasy peace between the once warring ethnic enclaves.
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For Mr. Alaric, vague assertions and broad measures aren’t enough. Mr. Alaric is a slave hunter. He hunts for slaves in the back alleys of Pale and Srebrinica, not to capture them, but to liberate them. And liberate them he does, often at gunpoint, and guarantees their safe return to their homelands.
He is a wanted man in three countries.
“The police want me because the fact that I exist--- the fact that I am necessary---is a black spot on their reputations---proof that they can’t
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Before he embarks on another mission, Harvey Alaric spreads the photos of several young women onto the linoleum floor and tries to imagine their lives. Did that one ever kick her habit and give up the streets? Or did she return to a life of prostitution and addiction? Had that young one---she had been 12, hadn’t she?---been returned to the abusive family that hd sold her in on the
“I haven’t lost one---no one--- in all of these
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year. It’s been close but we’ve always made it.
Once he accepts a job---he will stop at nothing to free these young women. He is alleged to have killed over five men who tried to stop him.
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---or won’t---do their jobs.
And the mafia wants me because---well, for obvious reasons, I guess.” he laughs. Gallows humor in a seedy roadside motel on the outskirts of Sarajevo.
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UNICEF estimates that about 1.2 million women and children are trafficked annually. The majority of them are trafficked out of Asia and Eastern Europe, especially the republics of the former Soviet Union. UN officials say that governments who signed onto the global antichild trafficking drive in Japan in 2001 must urgently tackle the root causes of the human slave trade, such as povery and inequality.
Slave huting in the Balkans
The problem of human trafficking currently plaguing the world has grown so acute, especially in the Balkans, that it has been met by a number of extra-legal responses, one of which is “slave huting,” in which a family or organization puts e money to hire a private detective/mercenary to liberate--focibly, if necessary---the victim from the criminals.