Book of Jeremiah
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This is happening right now - all over the world. Imagine living in such misery! The hopelessness you would feel being a slave - owned by someone else! These people need our prayers. This is tragic. Truly tragic. When you go to bed tonight, hug your children, your spouse, your cats, your dogs and thank God that you are not experiencing such an awful existence. Remember to say a prayer for those who are not so fortunate. If there is one thing we can be grateful for right now - it is our freedom. We are a free people. Thank God for liberty and the right to decide where you will go tomorrow and what you will do. There is so much we Americans take for granted. Tonight it is good time to remember how blessed we truly are.
Trafficked into slavery on Thai trawlers to catch food for prawns Global development The Guardian
There is nothing but a jagged line of splinters where Myint Thein’s teeth once stood – a painful reminder, he says, of the day he was beaten and sold on to a Thai fishing boat.
The tattooed Burmese fisherman, 29, bears a number of other “reminders” of his life at sea: two deep cuts on each arm, calloused fingers contorted like claws and facial muscles that twitch involuntarily from fear. For the past two years, Myint Thein has been forced to work 20-hour days as a slave on the high seas, enduring regular beatings from his Thai captain and eating little more than a plate of rice each day. But now that he’s been granted a rare chance to come back to port, he’s planning something special to mark the occasion: his escape.
Using a pair of rusty scissors, Myint Thein chops off his long, scraggly locks. He rinses himself down with a hose, slips on his only pair of trousers and, peering out at his surroundings, remembers not to open his mouth too wide. A man with no teeth is easy to remember.
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Trafficked into slavery on Thai trawlers to catch food for prawns Global development The Guardian
There is nothing but a jagged line of splinters where Myint Thein’s teeth once stood – a painful reminder, he says, of the day he was beaten and sold on to a Thai fishing boat.
The tattooed Burmese fisherman, 29, bears a number of other “reminders” of his life at sea: two deep cuts on each arm, calloused fingers contorted like claws and facial muscles that twitch involuntarily from fear. For the past two years, Myint Thein has been forced to work 20-hour days as a slave on the high seas, enduring regular beatings from his Thai captain and eating little more than a plate of rice each day. But now that he’s been granted a rare chance to come back to port, he’s planning something special to mark the occasion: his escape.
Using a pair of rusty scissors, Myint Thein chops off his long, scraggly locks. He rinses himself down with a hose, slips on his only pair of trousers and, peering out at his surroundings, remembers not to open his mouth too wide. A man with no teeth is easy to remember.
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