WHISTLEBLOWER

Human trafficking was never caught my attention, i mean i have heard about it, read it somewhere, but i have never took a close look on it until yesterday when i was watching "the whistleblower" movie, and it caught me by heart.

the movie was based on a true story that happened in Bosnia, where girls from age 12 to 14 or 16 years old, had been sold, some by their own families, as sex slave.
they had been abducted, held against their will, repeatedly raped and beaten, sometimes their captors insert some object into their vagina or anus,as one of horrific punishments that they have to endure to stay alive.

they had been kept together into a small room full of human feces, their hands and ankles locked with chains. and treated like animal.

the movies was so horrific and i was appalled with all the scenes which so abusive, that according to the movie director that they had already tone down from the actual story.

human trafficking is a social issues that most people tend to forget, but it's a global issue that is happening every single second around the world, which some underage girls, sold to another country, to become sexual slave, it's international trade, they are the commodity, and people got richer because of that. it happens not only in Bosnia, but also in Rusia,ex USSR countries, africa, China, north korea, Myanmar,and many others. underage girls from those countries, have been sold to UK, US, Germany ,just to name a few, even to Indonesia.

Most of the rest of the world have been enjoying a good ordinary life, raising a family, pursue a career, sometimes struggling with jobs, loans and personal problems, hang out with friends in some fancy resto or cafe in spare time, have money to buy things they want, travels abroad, go to clubs or music concert,even enjoy a pleasant morning with a good coffee.

the most important thing in life is freedom, and we have been enjoying it every day of our life.

most people are busy working their ass off just for more self indulgence, for more life entertainment, for more self pleasure. where in somewhere part of the country or world, some people suffered the worst cruelty. here we have been complaining for traffic jam, works, partners, friends and family, and how life had unfairly treated us. without realizing that for some people freedom is out of reach, a luxury.

in this materialistic, selfish, hedonistic and individualistic world, people are grown colder toward humanity. we lost our inner conscience,became ignorant of things that outside of our own little cocoon, focusing on things that we could gain not things that we could give freely. yes, we take life and its freedom for granted.

my heart and conscience haunted me after i watched the movie. those images of girls tortured beyond cruelty, i will never ever forget that.


most of us stay silent and ignorant and making excuses for that was not our war, we have our own life and our own problems. that movie made me realize that when it comes to humanity, it's not just some people war, but it's our war if we still have a heart and piece of humanity inside us.

at least we could do something about it, create something, write something, make some noises so more people will listen. life is empty when we have done nothing for humanity.

i remembered the holocaust of the jews and armenians, i remembered the massacre of tutsis, african slavery, i remembered all human tragedies because of silent and the ignorance of people.

Martin Luther King Jr once said "“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.