May be it's a rule of nature that old trend will come back again and again.The trend of slavery had ended in the most precious time of Muslim ummah by Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (S).But today when European countries are following this at the same time Muslim countries are going back to the dark age of slavery. And I think Bangladesh is leading from Front line. Are you astonishing? I'm telling the truth and the most regrettable fact is our country is working on empowering women and at same time supplying women as maid o abroad in the name of manpower exporting.
Khaleda Akhter domestic worker in Saudi pictured in Dhaka
I'm not talking about only female but also about the male those are going to specially middle eastern countries and getting abused. With a dream in the heart for a better and bright future people from our country go to those rich middle east countries. But only 20-25% of them are getting success and rest of them are loosing money, getting tortured and humiliated both physically and mentally.
I can tell a story of a man who is actually my cousin. He went Saudi Arabia about 20 years ago when people used to say that Saudi is the money mining country. Money is like water there. But actual fact was not like that. Now a days it's become harder but it was hard that time too. Specially for them who went there for house hold job.
Date Garden in Saudi Arabia
My cousin went there with free working visa. Free working visa means he can do jobs whatever he can. But the contractor who send the visa took him away from Riyadh city to a village in desert where people live barely. He got the work of a salesman but there was no house to stay there. So the shop owner arrange the accommodation which was eleven miles away from the shop where other labors of date garden were living. He was given a bicycle to commute. There shop was a dry food shop with take away facility. There were food and water around him but he was not allowed to eat or drink in the shop. CCTV was installed there to prevent shoplifting but the owner was such a cruel guy that he didn't even allow to bring water from home to shop. The shop time was 9am to 1am and 4pm to 10pm. In this period he was only allowed to go to restroom for natural calls. In the desert with huge temperature and diverse condition there were very few customers used to come in the morning time. Most of the people use to shop during evening time when they actually pass through the desert for long drive. In such hot weather if a person is not allowed to drink water in the duty time then how stressful was his duty? Only he and Allah knows how did he manage.
In Arabian countries children are beyond any rules. They don't like to raise there children in rules and discipline as we do in our country. So children who are actually teenagers used to torture playfully. They knew this guy is from another country and if we do anything to him then there is none to confront. So they often threw boulders to him. Within his four months job he got injured three times and bleed his head. They broke his bicycle wheel two times. So when he told the owner about these torture in reply he heard "Malish, Malish". That means forgive. This are some little torture examples.
Most of the Arabian countries take maid to there country to do house hold works. But they use them as sex slave. It's a open secrete there. The same maid is used as sex slave by all the male members in different time. Female from Philippine, Thailand and other Chinese ethnicity citizen though don't mind but the ladies who go from the east Asian countries often try to stand against and got severely tortured and become bound to do whatever the house owners want. The wives doesn't try to prevent them but they also bit and torture the maids. As a result some of them are escaping, some are getting hospitalized after throwing outside then coming bank home and some are getting lost cause may be they are killed and gored secretly.
This Girl died in Saudi Arabia and she is from India
So what are we sending to them. House maids or Sex slaves? In May 2018 there are 260 female maids came back by escaping from house works and they are urging other girls not to go middle eastern countries specially Saudia Arabia. They were being tortured not even physically but also mentally. And mental torture made them disable. They are no thinking to go back to home from Airport. They are thinking of begging in the street or looking to do the house maid job in cities. Once who was a wife or girl of a house is thinking to become outsider just because they have lost there chastity and virginity. And they lost this virtue because they thought of a better life not only for them but also for the whole family who are not ready to accept them. Mostly the wives who were sent by their impotent inactive husbands and they now don't want them as wife in shake of social image.
Worker/Maids return from SA
What we are doing is not sending house maids. We are selling sex slaves. Do we really selling sex slaves Or we are selling our honor in the name of sending man power. Why we have to send manpower to other countries? Why a developing country like us can't provide job to our people. This will led the article to bribing, quota, political lobbing etc.
JUST ONE QUESTION AIN'T WE SELLING THE HONORS OF OUR MOTHERS AND SISTERS TO OTHER COUNTRIES IN THE NAME OF HOUSE MAID WHICH IS ACTUALLY SEX SLAVERY?
This article is written on the base of news from newspapers and other people personal experience
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