China Cleans Up Slave Market For Olympics

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The Chinese Government is taking a firm stance against slaveholders just in time for the Olympics. This is in Guangdong, the richest province in China.

“These kids are robust and can do the toughest work,” a foreman was quoted as saying, as he pulled a scrawny girl to stand beside him…”

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Xinhua news agency said the county government had sent officials to rescue the children, but some were unwilling to leave, having been sold into slavery by their parents or volunteering to work themselves.

Now this article misses one key point that is pertinent in today’s news. These kids were agricultural labor. What were they growing? The slave children were growing corn for ehthanol. These are the Biofuel slaves.

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