Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...black pajamas as a sign of "instant communism." Inspired by China's Cultural Revolution, Pol Pot carried its practices to the extreme. Anyone who questioned the system, anyone who spoke a foreign language, anyone who wore glasses, was executed. Thousands upon thousands perished from starvation and disease in the slave camps of the countryside, as the fatally isolated economy ceased to function...
...ironic that African Americans who come to Africa seeking their roots thank their lucky stars that their ancestors were traded as slaves. If their forebears had remained, those same African Americans would probably be residing in a shack or, worse, eking out a subsistence living. Better to ask the ancestors who engaged in the slave trade to apologize for their evil acts. KEVIN SMITH Northcliff, South Africa...
What he did do was observe a rather unremarkable truth during his address to a schoolhouse in Uganda at the end of March: "Going back to the time before we were even a nation, European Americans received the fruits of the slave trade. And we were wrong in that." Unlike the nebulous details of the Lewinsky scandal, everything Clinton spoke of at that point is factually accurate. Slavery did exist, and slavery was wrong. White Americans, as members of a governing body which sanctioned and exploited slavery, have intentionally benefited from the consequences. That is wrong as well...
...blanket ban on child labor, we're effectively giving up any leverage that we might have to influence these kids in positive ways. If children are working anyway, it is preferable that they be hired by companies answerable to people in the West instead of the myriad domestic slave factories that currently thrive. With multinational companies, some method of responsibility could be worked out by which working conditions for children could be strictly monitored, their wages raised, and, most important of all, arrangements made for providing them with some form of education...
...want tourists as long as tourism undermines their democratic aspirations. And with the current level of military control over the burgeoning tourist trade, visitors to Burma cannot but hurt the people and land they are visiting. In any case, I cannot imagine that staying in hotels built with slave labor makes for a pleasant holiday...