‘Slave ships’ seized off Cape coast

[darksai]

Just found out about this from my dad, (yet) another reminder of the world we live in. I'm reminded of this quote from Gurdjieff that I read in High Strangeness last night:

... that is because people believe in progress and culture. There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. Man remains the same. 'Civilised' and 'cultured' people live with exactly the same interests as the most ignorant savages. Modern civilization based on violence and slavery and fine words.

I find it hugely ironic that on the one hand they talk about the inhumanity endured by slaves on board, and later that they need legal advice as to how to go about donating it the enormous amount of frozen fish because it's illegal to trade. In other words, they're going to line the pockets of a lawyer or two to do the most obvious and basic thing. I suspect that what they would "concerned" about is that the fish might be traded by those they give it to... so friggin' what?!!


I also find the escape of two of the ships highly suspicious, and that "well-planned" (by the owner(s) and captains and alone) just isn't satisfying. You don't just "sneak" a ship out of a major international harbour with no one noticing. I think it's possible that someone involved with the harbour authorities didn't want whatever evidence was on those two ships getting out. The fact that seven other ships were already docked in Cape Town harbour suggests that were not simply passing by and been doing this for quite some time. Five years is mentioned, and if this was how long they'd been fishing and docking in Cape Town waters and harbour, then again, it's difficult to see how they could have gone unnoticed (10 unseaworthy ships, no certification, etc.) for so long without some kind of collusion.




_http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/western-cape/slave-ships-seized-off-cape-coast-1.1636266#.UuTGYMZBuc8

When a fisheries patrol vessel intercepted three foreign vessels fishing illegally off the coast they found “modern-day slaves” forced to live and work in appalling conditions.

Some of the crew, mainly Indonesian and Taiwanese, had been working on the tuna fishing vessels for between three and five years without being paid.
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Then on December 29 two of the fishing vessels, Samudera Pasific No 8 and Berkat Menjala No 23, snuck out of Cape Town harbour and have not been seen since.
On Monday, fisheries asked for Interpol Purple Notices so that other vessels might be able to locate the escapees, and also to warn other countries of the potential threats posed to the safety and security of the people on board.
“It was a well-planned escape. We don’t know if they have crew on board or where they got the crew. Everyone is looking out for them, but they have not been seen.
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Officials face a problem about what to do with the 160 tons of frozen tuna, mainly yellowfin and albacore. In terms of international agreements, illegally fished tuna may not be traded.
“But it is all fit for human consumption, so we’re taking legal advice on what we can do with it, whether it can be donated,” Liedemann said

 

[FireballK1282]

Perhaps thats where the various "slaves" rescued by Police from traveller sites and associated traveller properties in the UK were bound.

UK Police also regularly find illegal immigrants mainly from Vietnam working as slaves in Cannabis Factories in appalling conditions when they raid these locations. one poor soul who was murdered was dumped by the roadside in a roll of carpet, another, dying worker was kicked out of a moving car at a hospital casualty, shortly before he expired.

Slavery exists in many forms and in many countries, the corrupt Ukraine being possibly the worst offender when it comes to tafficking of females into slavery as prostitutes.