Human Goods

We’ve heard about Darfur. We’ve heard about Tibet. But what about the slaves? How does their story fit into this summer’s controversial games?

“Whenever a big political event takes place, I don’t look at it through the same eyes anymore,” says Misha Glenny, author of the new book, “McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underground.”

Peter Edwards reported this in The Toronto Star in an article about the criminal underground and the Beijing Olympics. “China has already ordered a ’social cleansing’ to clear Beijing of beggars, hawkers, and prostitutes, but keeping crime groups from flooding the host city with hookers poses an Olympian task,” he writes.

In an article by Paul Legall, Ontario’s Hamilton Spectator reported that during every Olympic Games, women are imported from all over the world into sexual servitude.

“This is the ugly little secret people don’t want to talk about,” Clare Freeman of the Women Abuse Working Group told the Spectator.

The winter Olympics are just two years away for Canada, and as China faces the problem this year, on the other side of the world Canadians are already taking steps to curb the inevitable influx of trafficked sex slaves.

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