Every Thursday night at Star World, there’s an interesting serial about Human Trafficking titled as – well – Human Trafficking. It was starred by several well-known artists; Mira Sorvino and Donald Sutherland to name a few. Last night was my first time watching the serial and I wished I could watch more series in the nights to come. The serial shows how these criminal transport women from one country to another, made them stay in a house with minimum sanitization and sell them to several prostitute houses or forced them to act in a porn movie.
As audience, it might cross our mind to why this group of woman didn’t just collaborate and fight back the criminals who held them hostages. This group of woman outnumbered the bad guys. But in reality, is it that simple? Consider the fact that these bad guys hold guns?
In the real world, victim of human trafficking isn’t always woman, it also happens to babies, children and man. I think, any form of transporting, laboring, slavery against the person’s own will could be classified as Human Trafficking (for definition, go to wikipedia or humantrafficking.org). As long as there’s demand for cheap labors, sex-slaves and babies, there will always be supply. The lack of regulation and supervision has made this worse.
However, the issue has made me wonder: was it the demand for sex-slave and porn-movies that triggers the issue? Or was it the economical condition that left these women with no choice besides selling their bodies and give sexual services to those who seek for them? Was it demand meets supply? Answering this is like solving a riddle on which one was born first, an egg or a chicken that produce egg. But from my personal point of view, no one likes to do something they don’t like. And I don’t think being a sex-slave or porn movie star was something they prefer to do.
One thing we can learn from this movie is to be careful and take care of ourselves and loved ones. And pray to Allah to protect us from any bad things that threaten our lives, our ancestors and descendants. And to hope that the victims will see a bright light anytime soon. Amiin…
And for those who keen on watching porn movie, remember that the scenes you’re watching might be a living proof of the end-result of human trafficking.
simple thoughts 