Human trafficking and modern slavery do not make front page headlines anymore. To bring the subject of slavery to the public eye, one has to find a story where a slave-owner ruthlessly exploits a large number of slaves. If there is only one or two of such workers, the story will soon be forgotten. However, one may find themselves enslaved when looking for a job or going shopping late at night.
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The police of the Russian city of Karaganda have recently arrested two men who kept a slave, a 36-year-old man. The slave managed to escape from his masters. He came to the nearest police station because he was afraid lest his owners should catch him and make him live in a hut and work again. The police had the man shadowed to find the criminals. Soon the slave-owners caught their slave at a bus stop.
The policemen visited the people who kept the man in a suburb. They found the slave with his neck chained and tightened with bolts and wires. The prisoner was bound to a metal tube by the other end of the chain.
If the man refused to work, the slave-owners beat him. The slave was obliged to saw and chop wood to make fire for kebabs in summer cafes.
The two criminals were arrested.
The police of Sakhalin, in Russia’s Far East, also arrested two slave-owners. They will go on trial for using slave labor. Li Chan Hen, 47, from Uglezavodsk, and N. Sirich, 39, from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk were arrested in July of 2007.
The men managed a farm in a village of Sakhalin, and owned a shop in the town of Uglezavodsk. They had a lot of work to do every day, so entrepreneurs realized that they needed new workers. To save money they decided to use slaves. They found three homeless people and promised them free lodging and a good salary.
The farmers took away their documents, beat them and threatened to kill them. They could conceal their slaves because the farm was located quite far from the village.
The slaves were living in a barn. Their living conditions were much like those of animals: no conveniences, terrible sanitary conditions, scanty nutrition and no medical help. The people worked from early morning till late night without days off.
The slave-owners were arrested only in July of 2007 (the slaves had been working for them since July of 2004).
A 60-year-old man became a slave in Russia’s Volgograd region. He was hired to graze horses. He could have avoided the fate of a slave, if seven horses had not died during his work. The employer made the man work off the cost of the horses. The pensioner resisted since he did not want to be regarded as free labor force. As a result, the pensioner became a slave for two years.
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