Without Mercy : Woman's Struggle Against Modern Slavery
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Imagine a strange man touching her, beating her, raping her impregnating her then laughing smugly in her face as she suffers. Imagine your flesh and blood enduring these degrading, incalculable atrocities. A slave.
What would you do? Give up? Forget it?
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NINE YEARS OLD!?
She was nine years old when she was taken and had already had three miscarriages when she became pregnant a fourth time. This child had been stillborn. The death of this little baby had taken the child-mother’s sanity. She was twelve years old. ...
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(...) she is still the fourteen year old girl who left, because her life had not changed. She has not had the chance to grow up. She doesn’t know what growing up means.
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Muthana’s words, impressed indelibly on my brain, rang loud and clear in my ears. “I kept you pregnant to hold you down!” I knew, I knew, that now this was what was happening to Nadia, too.
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Pessimism has set in. I couldn’t shake it off. It told me all was to no avail. Everything, everywhere, was illegal: the marriages, the ages. The purchase price of the girls was considered to be “bargain of the week”(...)
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Just do something!
Why, oh why could they not understand? Imagine a man raping your daughter; blackmailing her with her own children to keep quiet. Think of his hands touching her intimately. These same hands beating her. Now do something about it! Do something about it in a country like Yemen.
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I’m absolutely petrified from Abdul Khada! Hee hits me whenever he chooses, whenever he pleases. Even if he is in a bad temper, he just takes it out on me and hits me for nothing. I haven’t done anything wrong to them. I’ve just been patient, that’s all. All on my own!
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Why didn’t they let us have a marriage ceremony, or even ask us if we want to be married? I was only fifteen and my sister Nadia, she was only fourteen when she got here. We had to put up with it!
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Damn you!!!
While I was working in Saudi, my father arranged the marriage of my daughter to an elder in the village. He was over sixty years old, my daughter was nine. By the time I found out and got back to Yemen, it was too late. This elder had made my daughter his own. The union was complete. ...
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