23-letnia Ugandyjka zeznała na posterunku straży granicznej, że przez ponad miesiąc była więziona, bita i gwałcona przez gang handlarzy ludźmi. Historia Afrykanki, która uciekła oprawcom w samym centrum Warszawy, do złudzenia przypomina głośną sprawę Nigeryjki Janet J. (…)
Wiadomo jedynie, że jej gehenna trwała około 40 dni.
Z relacji 23-latki wynika, że odyseję rozpoczęła od poznania białego mężczyzny, który zaproponował jej załatwienie “dochodowej pracy w Europie”. “Wcześniej sprzedawała owoce na ulicach Kampali, stolicy Ugandy. Mężczyzna skusił ją wizją dostatnego życia” – opowiada rzecznik nadwiślańskiej Straży Granicznej Agnieszka Golias.
Najprawdopodobniej kobiecie obiecywano pracę sprzątaczki – dziesięciokrotność przeciętnej pensji mieszkańca Ugandy.
Dalsza opowieść jest chaotyczna: wiadomo, że Afrykanka tylko raz leciała samolotem. Nie wiadomo skąd i dokąd. Znaczną część podróży, najprawdopodobniej przez kilka granic pokonała w samochodzie białego opiekuna. “Była bita, gwałcona i odurzana narkotykami. Zabrano jej dokumenty” – opowiada Golias. Udało jej się uciec dopiero, gdy wiozący ją mężczyzna zatrzymał się w centrum Warszawy. Wykorzystała chwilę jego nieuwagi i ukryła się w przejściach pod Dworcem Centralnym.
“Było to w nocy z czwartku na piątek. O świcie, gdy na ulicach pojawili się ludzie, udało jej się zaczepić kogoś znającego angielski. Przechodzeń skierował ją prosto do naszej siedziby. Pojawiła się u nas w piątek około godz. 10” – wyjaśnia Golias.
“Badamy, czy nie doszło do przypadku handlu żywym towarem. Z wyjaśnień kobiety wynika, że miała trafić do domu publicznego” – opowiada oskarżyciel z mokotowskiej prokuratury.
Ugandyjką zajmuje się teraz fundacja La Strada, która wspólnie z resortem spraw wewnętrznych prowadzi program ochrony ofiar handlu ludźmi. Miejsce pobytu kobiety jest utrzymywane w ścisłej tajemnicy.
Policja zwraca uwagę, że Polska coraz częściej leży na trasie przerzutu kobiet z Afryki.
“Handel ludźmi to dochodowa gałąź przestępczości. Czarnoskóre kobiety trafiają do agencji, gdzie otrzymują jedynie jedzenie i dach nad głową. Cały zysk wędruje do kieszeni sutenerów” – komentuje oficer biura kryminalnego w Komendzie Głównej Policji.
Ale jest też druga strona medalu: Polska coraz częściej staje się krajem docelowym dla “żywego towaru”, choć jeszcze niedawno była jedynie przystankiem w trasie do agencji na zachodzie Europy.
Z danych Prokuratury Krajowej wynika, że od 1995 r. w Polsce aż 2885 osób usłyszało zarzut handlu ludźmi.
communio sanctorum (Latin for communion of saints, świętych obcowanie)
Madrid, Nov 12, 2008 / 09:21 pm (CNA).- The Spanish daily “La Razon” has published an article on the pro-life conversion of a former “champion of abortion.” Stojan Adasevic, who performed 48,000 abortions, sometimes up to 35 per day, is now the most important pro-life leader in Serbia, after 26 years as the most renowned abortion doctor in the country.
“The medical textbooks of the Communist regime said abortion was simply the removal of a blob of tissue,” the newspaper reported. “Ultrasounds allowing the fetus to be seen did not arrive until the 80s, but they did not change his opinion. Nevertheless, he began to have nightmares.”
In describing his conversion, Adasevic “dreamed about a beautiful field full of children and young people who were playing and laughing, from 4 to 24 years of age, but who ran away from him in fear. A man dressed in a black and white habit stared at him in silence. The dream was repeated each night and he would wake up in a cold sweat. One night he asked the man in black and white who he was. ‘My name is Thomas Aquinas,’ the man in his dream responded. Adasevic, educated in communist schools, had never heard of the Dominican genius saint. He didn’t recognize the name”
“Why don’t you ask me who these children are?” St. Thomas asked Adasevic in his dream.
“They are the ones you killed with your abortions,’ St. Thomas told him.
“Adasevic awoke in amazement and decided not to perform any more abortions,” the article stated.
“That same day a cousin came to the hospital with his four months-pregnant girlfriend, who wanted to get her ninth abortion—something quite frequent in the countries of the Soviet bloc. The doctor agreed. Instead of removing the fetus piece by piece, he decided to chop it up and remove it as a mass. However, the baby’s heart came out still beating. Adasevic realized then that he had killed a human being,”
After this experience, Adasevic “told the hospital he would no longer perform abortions. Never before had a doctor in Communist Yugoslavia refused to do so. They cut his salary in half, fired his daughter from her job, and did not allow his son to enter the university.”
After years of pressure and on the verge of giving up, he had another dream about St. Thomas.
“You are my good friend, keep going,’ the man in black and white told him. Adasevic became involved in the pro-life movement and was able to get Yugoslav television to air the film ‘The Silent Scream,’ by Doctor Bernard Nathanson, two times.”
Adasevic has told his story in magazines and newspapers throughout Eastern Europe. He has returned to the Orthodox faith of his childhood and has studied the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas.
“Influenced by Aristotle, Thomas wrote that human life begins forty days after fertilization,” Adasevic wrote in one article. La Razon commented that Adasevic “suggests that perhaps the saint wanted to make amends for that error.” Today the Serbian doctor continues to fight for the lives of the unborn.
W ciągu 26 lat dokonał 48 tysięcy aborcji. Dzięki niezwykłej ingerencji z Nieba, Stojan Adasevic przestał zabijać, a jego historia otwiera oczy tysiącom ludzi.
Może trudno w to uwierzyć, ale od brutalnego mordowania nienarodzonych dzieci do szlachetnej działalności dającej radość rodzicielstwa tysiącom ludzi jest tylko jeden krok. Świadectwa tych, którzy go zrobili są jednak szokujące. To najbardziej znane, które przedstawia od lat amerykański lekarz, dr Bernard Natanson otworzyło na sprawy życia i śmierci już setki tysięcy oczu. Czyj sprzeciw wobec aborcji może budzić większe zainteresowanie niż człowieka, który wykonał ich w życiu kilkanaście tysięcy? Zachodnie, głównie hiszpańskie i amerykańskie, media zainteresowały się ostatnio wyznaniem serbskiego ginekologa, Stojana Adasevicia, który ma na swoich rękach krew – jak sam przyznaje – 48 tysięcy dzieci. Jego historia jest niezwykła nie tylko z powodu tej szokującej liczby.
Najbardziej znany serbski ginekolog zdobył wykształcenie na komunistycznej uczelni i wszedł w zawód z silnym przeświadczeniem, że aborcja jest zwykłym zabiegiem usunięciem tkanki, na pewno zaś nie jest zabiciem człowieka. Jego zdania nie zmieniło nawet wprowadzenie w latach 80-tych XX wieku ultrasonografu, ukazującego człowieczeństwo „płodu”. Adasevic, który potrafił wykonywać do 35 aborcji dziennie opisuje niezwykłe doświadczenie, które odmieniło jego życie: Miał sen, w którym widział pole pełne śmiejących się i bawiących dzieci oraz młodych ludzi, w wieku od 4 do 24 lat. Wszyscy jednak w strachu uciekali przed nim. Na polu stał też mężczyzna, ubrany w czarno-białe szaty, który spoglądał na niego w milczeniu. Sen powtarzał się każdej nocy, a ginekolog budził się w napadzie paniki. Pewnej nocy zapytał człowieka w czarno-białych szatach kim jest. – Nazywam się Tomasz z Akwinu – odpowiedział mężczyzna ze snu. Adasevicowi, zdeklarowanemu ateiście, to nazwisko nic nie mówiło, słyszał je po raz pierwszy w życiu. – Dlaczego nie spytasz mnie, kim są te dzieci – zapytał jednak św. Tomasz i nie czekając odpowiedział: – To ludzie, których zabiłeś w czasie aborcji. Tak niezwykłych znaków nie mógł zignorować i obudził się z postanowieniem, że już nigdy więcej nie wykona aborcji.
To nie było łatwe. Jeszcze tego samego dnia zjawił się u niego kuzyn ze swoją dziewczyną w czwartym miesiącu ciąży, z prośbą, aby dokonał kolejnej – dziewiątej już na tej kobiecie – aborcji. Adasevic się zgodził. Gdy wydobył zmasakrowaną „tkankę” zobaczył, iż mimo rozerwania ciała na części, serce dziecka nadal bije. W tym momencie uświadomił sobie, że zabił człowieka. Po tych przeżyciach Adasevic publicznie oświadczył, że przez 26 lat zabijał ludzi i więcej już tego nie zrobi. Taka deklaracja w komunistycznej Jugosławii nie była jednak jego prywatną sprawą. Był pierwszym lekarzem w tym kraju, który się na to odważył. Rezultatem było obcięcie pensji o połowę i zwolnienie z pracy jego córki. Synowi z kolei odmówiono przyjęcia na studia. Po kilku latach pozostawania na marginesie zawodowym, był bliski rezygnacji ze swojego postanowienia. Wtedy po raz kolejny przyśnił mu się święty Tomasz. – Jesteś moim dobrym przyjacielem, nie poddawaj się – powiedział mu święty.
Adasevic zaangażował się w ruch pro-life a nawet udało mu się doprowadzić do dwukrotnego wyemitowania przez jugosłowiańską telewizję filmu „Niemy krzyk” Bernarda Natansona. Wrócił też do wiary swego dzieciństwa, prawosławia. I zaczął studiować dzieła św. Tomasza z Akwinu. W jednym z artykułów napisał: – Pod wpływem Arystotelesa św. Tomasz stwierdził, że życie zaczyna się w czterdziestym dniu po zapłodnieniu, jednak od jego czasów postęp naukowy ujawnił, że życie ludzkie zaczyna się w momencie zapłodnienia. Dziennikarze „La Razon”, którzy poświęcili Adaseviciowi obszerny tekst napisali, że być może święty chciał zadośćuczynić za swą pomyłkę i dlatego ukazał się ginekologowi.
“On this trip, I’ve had sex with a 14-year-old girl in Mexico and a 15-year-old in Colombia. I’m helping them financially. If they don’t have sex with me, they may not have enough food. If someone has a problem with me doing this, let UNICEF feed them.”
Retired U.S. Schoolteacher
click on the picture to go to Trafficking in Person Report 2008 by US Department of State
News from today: FBI arrested 389 people involved in human trafficking and prostitution, after raids in 16 cities across the country. According to CNN, those involved in child trafficking are facing federal charges, which might end up in life sentences.
Innocence Lost National Initiative, till today rescued more than 400 kids and led to persecution of 308 persons. Last week they held the largest operation since 2005.
Finally someone is being serious about it. I wonder how many of the victims were from abroad.
click on the photo to go to the TRADE web site
If you want to see a recent movie about the subject, watch “Trade” Movie (free online). The story evolves around Eastern European and Mexican girls, human trafficked from Mexico to USA, humiliated, abused and treated like slaves.
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said Patson Chipiro, head of the Zimbabwean opposition party in Mhondoro district, after learning about his wife’s death by mutilation and fire.
“They want to kill me. But I have no alternative. My presence here as a leader is very important. If I leave, everyone else will leave. I intend to fight the battle, from here.”
I am numb, speechless. What are men capable to do to their fellow humans?
The girl was a 17 year old student at the University. She was killed by her father and her two brothers, because she was seen talking to a foreign soldier. Her father’s only regret is, that he did not kill her right after birth. He was arrested, congratulated by police officers and released after 2 hours.
“I don’t regret it. I had the support of all my friends who are fathers, like me, and know what she did was unacceptable to any Muslim that honours his religion”
“I have only two boys from now on. That girl was a mistake in my life. I know God is blessing me for what I did”
After his release he was given money by a local politician to dissapear for some time, until the case will be forgotten. This became a custom for the last 30 honor killings since January 2008.
His wife and mother of the girl, decided to divorce her husband and is in hiding, fearing for her life. She was severly beaten by her husband, after delivering the news about wanting a divorce, her arm is broken as an effect.
“Now, my lovely Rose is in her grave. But, God will make her father pay, either in this world … or in the world after.”
I thought that the honor killings are executed only in the case of adultery, fornication, but not after a talk. if the same law would be measured toward the man in Islam, there would be real shortage of men. The craziest thing is that the whole society is set for these types of situations, so the murderers will not be persecuted, but protected by others, including government officials. Somebody do something!!!
I’ve just finished the book “Escape” by Carolyn Jessop, former Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) member, who escaped with her 8 children, after many years of terrifying life with a man, who was one of the leaders in the FLDS.
She grew up in a polygamous household, and had to marry 50 year old man, being only 18 years old herself and becoming the forth wife. She was abused sexually, physically and emotionally throughout the marriage, not only by her husband, but by her sister-wives also.
Carolyn is the first top on the left, here with her husband and sister wives
The whole system of FLDS keeps the women as a subject to the men-powered world, which existence is based on perversity and control. They are degrading women’s lives, by diminishing them to working slaves, playing with their minds constantly to keep them vulnerable and subjected to the men’s wishes. Brain washed by the group’s leader’s, constantly abused, kept without educational opportunities, mentally tricked and emotionally drained, sooner or later, they become mentally unstable, depressed and mostly give up.
Carolyn found her strength by caring for her children, and was granted a full custody of her children after her escape from the brutality of the system, which promised heaven, but delivered hell on earth.
Very disturbing recollections of a young woman’s journey from a total believer in the cult’s religious teachings, to the world of freedom and reason.
The belief of FLDS: you can become a goddess in the afterlife if you will please your husband and live in total harmony with him (non-questionable obedience), he is destined to become god. On this picture, Carolyn is first on the right.
This morning I felt impressed to check the news at CBN. Guess what I found.
Joshua Generation project will be launched by Barack Obama soon. It will target young Evangelicals and Catholics, groups which could potentially move toward his side, despite the dramatic differences on issues like abortion. This article on CBN news estimates that through this campaign he might get even 40% of Evangelicals votes!!!
On June 28th, 2006 Obama delivered speech in Washington D.C, titled “Call to renewal” about his personal journey to God and church, politics and religion and the discussion surrounding his controversial position on sensitive topics. If you are not familiar with it, it’s a must read. This speech was recognized by many as probably the most important speech on religion and politics in 40 years.
On March 7th, 2007 Obama gave a speech, commemorating Selma Voting Rights March. Very inspiring, spiritually connecting to all the Christian values, uplifting and invigorating all of your patriotic left over feelings that you did not even know you had. He used the story of Moses and Joshua as the background for his speech. Few quotes:
If you want to change the world, the change has to happen with you first and that is something that the greatest and most honorable of generations has taught us, but the final thing that I think the Moses generation teaches us is to remind ourselves that we do what we do because God is with us.
I’m here because somebody marched. I’m here because you all sacrificed for me. I stand on the shoulders of giants. I thank the Moses generation; but we’ve got to remember, now, that Joshua still had a job to do. As great as Moses was, despite all that he did, leading a people out of bondage, he didn’t cross over the river to see the Promised Land. God told him your job is done. You’ll see it. You’ll be at the mountain top and you can see what I’ve promised. What I’ve promised to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. You will see that I’ve fulfilled that promise but you won’t go there.
We’re going to leave it to the Joshua generation to make sure it happens. There are still battles that need to be fought; some rivers that need to be crossed. Like Moses, the task was passed on to those who might not have been as deserving, might not have been as courageous, find themselves in front of the risks that their parents and grandparents and great grandparents had taken. That doesn’t mean that they don’t still have a burden to shoulder, that they don’t have some responsibilities. The previous generation, the Moses generation, pointed the way. They took us 90% of the way there. We still got that 10% in order to cross over to the other side. So the question, I guess, that I have today is what’s called of us in this Joshua generation? What do we do in order to fulfill that legacy; to fulfill the obligations and the debt that we owe to those who allowed us to be here today?
I don’t blame him. What else can you do with that charm, magnetic personality, smooth vocabulary transporting us to the world of our dreams. Is there anyone else who can preach better and awaken America? Is there anyone else who can voice out our desires? Is there anyone?
Personally, I like the guy. I think he is extremely intelligent, has magnificent charisma surrounding his person every time he appears. Media love him, so the crowd, he know how to inspire, unite and fuel people up, even if his direction is not clear enough and lacks concretes.
I believe he is sincere and truly believes in the ideas he proclaims to stand for, if he’ll become the next president. Undoubtedly, he is the best preacher for this season, and his faithful come from all backgrounds, feeling that his cause is bigger than ever and has the chance for real change. He has become the voice of the next generation, promoted by no one else but the people.
He has become an icon for something fresh and new, even if we don’t know exactly how it will shape our future. He has taken USA by storm, and he is intending to convince the last bastion of doubtful, that he can represent them. And most of people intuitively trust him.
I like a lot of his ideas. I would probably vote for him, if not for this one issue:
Barack Obama understands that abortion is a divisive issue, and respects those who disagree with him. However, he has been a consistent champion of reproductive choice and will make preserving women’s rights under Roe v. Wade a priority as President. He opposes any constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s decision in that case.
Wake up, people. We need to pray that his heart will change or that someone else will become the Chief.
The program is the tip of an intensive, months-long outreach effort by the campaign. On Tuesday, in advance of its debut, Obama met privately in Chicago, Illinois, with about 30 evangelical, Protestant and Catholic leaders. They included Bishop T.D. Jakes, the megachurch minister, and Douglas Kmiec, an influential law professor who opposes abortion rights.
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