Sunday, January 19, 2014

The new slavery in Bulgaria as result and manifestation of the new neocolonialism


After the description of three sales markets of the new slavery – Germany, Switzerland and Denmark, it is high time to present a supply market of this slavery. This will be Bulgaria – not only because this is my country but because I know more about it than about the other supply markets in Eastern Europe.

I start with a case relevant to the slavery in Leipzig – that of a 38-year old Bulgarian mother of three children who has been deceived by a pimp with promises to work as a chef in a restaurant but instead was forced by him to work as a prostitute first in Hamburg and then in Leipzig, in one of the flats of the already well-known governmental human trader Jens Kottke. After her return to Bulgaria the woman complained to the police in her town Blagoevgrad but as the reaction of the police obviously did not invoke any trust by her, she went to the editorial office of the newspaper “Struma”, narrated there her story of forced prostitution and asked for help as the pimp threatened to kill her along with her three children. Definitely this pimp, exactly like his German partner Kottke, did not fear the law-enforcing bodies at all. And he was right – almost two years after the newspaper published the article with the story of this woman and I invited the German prosecution to investigate this story, there is nothing to find in the press on this case. This is clear indication not only that the pimp has no problems at all with the law but also that the newspaper was banned of writing further on this case – otherwise it would follow up. This case reveals the enormous power of the human traders and the extent of the criminal terror in Bulgaria and I find it a very good introduction into the topic of the slavery in the country. We see a single mother with responsibility for three children being forced into prostitution and exploited with the silent consent and cooperation of the Bulgarian and German law-enforcing authorities.

At first glance the Bulgarian environment seems to be as much criminal as the German one but there is one very important difference. While the powerful fathers of the new slavery have decided to make use of the payment capacity of the population of countries like Germany, Switzerland and Denmark for the sale of the services of the new slaves, they regard the impoverished population of Bulgaria and the other East European countries as a source and supplier of slaves. Therefore while in Germany the criminal terror is targeting the foreign slaves and those who oppose it, the criminal terror in Bulgaria is targeting the population as a whole and is applied in a much broader and open scale. Particularly in the first half of the 90-ies this terror took an extremely mass character and contributed significantly to the plunder and impoverishment of the Bulgarian population. Today Bulgaria, formally the poorest member of the EU, takes along with Romania and Hungary one of the first places and often the first place in the old EU members by the number of prostitutes and victims of human trade per 1000 inhabitants of the countries of origin. In Bulgaria there is neither register nor trustworthy statistics. Even the untrue formal figure – 10 000 victims annually, is very threatening for a country with a population of less than 7 Millions. In the article “The Statistics of the New Slavery” I came to the conclusion, based on the ILO statistics that approximately each 10th young woman in our countries is a victim of human trade. In the villages and the smaller towns in Bulgaria nowadays there are very few young women.

On the question how many of the East European prostitutes in Western Europe are victims of human trade I will cite the Austrian “Kleine Zeitung”, which claims that 90% of the prostitutes in Vienna are forced prostitutes. I will add that most of the remaining 10% are Austrian women.

Despite this situation human trade is never mentioned in the political debates in the country - it is a taboo topic for the Bulgarian politics, on which the politicians do not even make any promises. As hinted above, the Bulgarian mass media are not allowed to publish the truth about human trade. I asked a well known Bulgarian journalist to write about the Hungarians in Leipzig, he wrote to me that the topic is too “deep” and “specific” and disappeared. While the victims of human trade are never given the floor, the “illegal” pimps do not shy to give interviews, in which they describe their victims as extremely immoral and definitely willing to practice prostitution and to provide versatile and often kinky services. The population is aware of the “white slaves” as the forced prostitutes are called in the country but either does not know anything about their circumstances or relies on the pimps’ interviews. These interviews reveal that the sex industry in Sofia is controlled by very few people and the pimps-brothel owners pay protection money to their superiors or/and directly to the police, whereby in Sofia they have to pay as a rule both the district police and the town police. It is evident that the big money from the industry lands to the few real leaders and the police and obviously the bulk of it ends by the decision makers who control these people and the law-enforcement authorities. The episodic police raids against certain brothels are explained with non-payments by their owners. There is not much information about the situation of the women but it becomes clear that they are in full dependence on their bosses as they talk of money they have paid for these women and that these women are expected to repay them this money along with the profits. In one interview the journalist is asking in a friendly manner the pimp, a women exporter to France, whether he beats the women. The pimp replies that he beats them seldom as many women want to work for him and firing one of them is the biggest punishment for her. It is the first time I hear that human traders fire their victims and the latter want voluntarily to be their victims and provide them the bulks of their earnings.

Human trade and pimping are illegal in Bulgaria but the lack of prostitution law and regulations gives full freedom to those who control them.

In July 2001 on the way back from a business trip to the town of Bourgas I was invited by my passengers (two experts from the town of Pazardjik who worked in Bourgas) to drive along the old road between the towns of Plovdiv and Pazardjik. There they have shown me more than 50 girls in the age of 15 – 16 years who waited for clients along the road. I was told that after these children have worked the whole day on the road – in heat and in cold, in the evenings they are sent as call girls to the flats of their clients. Of course all this happened with the knowledge and permission of the local authorities.

In a country of less than 7 Million inhabitants the Bulgarian police counts 60 000 employees (twice more than the army) and still organized crime is almighty. Definitely this would not be the situation, had the police the task to enforce the laws and protect the citizens’ rights. But if the operative management of the organized crime in countries like Germany, Switzerland and Denmark is provided by their law-enforcement bodies, who performs these functions in Bulgaria? The Bulgarian law-enforcement authorities of course. Who else could be the business partner of the Western law-enforcement bodies in these heavy crimes?

It is not a secret and one can read in the Bulgarian press that the Office for combating organized crime actually takes care of the smooth running of the drug trafficking. How big is the probability, however, that this office is not taking care of the “smooth” enslavement and delivery to the West of Bulgarian girls and women? An answer to this question gives the murder of Miroslava from Pernik. The 17-year old national champion in taekwondo was kidnapped and murdered hours after her kidnapping. I have already mentioned this murder as an example of the brutal enslavement of the victims of the modern slavery. After two-months of total passivity despite the pleas of the family to the authorities to search for their disappeared daughter, the Office for combating organized crime quickly found the body of the murdered girl and accused two men as perpetrators. Both of them had never committed a murder, the one of them was a former accountant who had never dealt with violence and his nickname was “The Rabbit”. These two men must have defeated the taekwondo champion and brutally beaten her and strangled her with pig iron to death. Before her murder the kidnapped girl was allowed to call and talk to her sister and she told her that there were policemen among her kidnappers but both accused were not related to the police. It is astonishing that one of the accused in handcuffs and in the presence of 5 elite police people took out the gun of one of them and shot himself deadly. It is even more astonishing that this suicide was done with 3 shots (who can shoot himself three times?) and the investigation committee of the parliamentary opposition concluded that there was no gunpowder on his hands. No wonder that after such a “suicide” the other accused – “The Rabbit” admitted his guilt and even did not try to blame the other accused for the murder. Later he has told in a television program that he has never seen and murdered Miroslava but in a situation with a predetermined court processing he has done the best to alleviate his situation. The fact, that the girl was murdered only few hours after her kidnapping, does rebuff the anyway incredible official motivation of the murder – to take ransom money from the rich lover of the victim’s sister. It turned out that the family does not have even sufficient funds to bury its daughter. Exactly the daughters of such poor and socially weak families are the targets of the enslaving human traders. The murder of Miroslava reveals thoroughly the way people typically are enslaved in Bulgaria and in other supply markets of the modern slavery. First the organized crime kidnaps and subdues the victim, making it clear to her that she has either to obey or die. Then she is ordered to call her family and to tell them that she would stay with friends and will not be soon at home so that they do not bother the authorities.. For the case that the family still decides to approach the police, the latter is instructed to reject any requests from it for investigation or search. That is what policemen and prosecutors did in the case with Miroslava. They laughed and told the mother that her daughter is drinking cocktails in Germany (obviously she was to be exploited there) and when the woman still persisted with her requests, they stopped answering her calls. Had Miroslava not been murdered but become a sex slave somebody would inform the mother that her daughter has become a prostitute in Germany (voluntarily of course) while by the time Miroslava is allowed to visit her family for the first time (as a rule months after her enslavement) she would know that her masters are the strongest people in the world that authorities both in Germany and Bulgaria are on their side and there is no point to bother the anyway helpless and troubled parents with her realities. For the same reason sex slaves never complain to their clients.

In this case we see that police, prosecution and justice (the accused has been found guilty of murder only based on his admissions and of the writings (?) of the other accused who committed the suicide) have supported the heaviest crime against Miroslava and I fully agree with her sister that except for the death of Miroslava everything in this case is a complete farce.  

The death of Miroslava shows not only the brutality of the slavery and the participation in it of the state authorities but also the extent of the crime in Bulgaria, where even national sport champions become its victims.

The journalists wonder why the Office for combating organized crime has dealt with this case but following the logics of the BKA behavior exactly the body, formally set up to combat organized crime has the actual functions to protect and guide it. The Office acts in the cases of human trade exactly as it acts with regard to drug trafficking – by supporting organized crime and its very crimes.

The information about our white slaves abroad is very limited but tragic. In the West the authorities and “the free press” make sure that the real circumstances of these women do not come out. Many Bulgarian slaves service the American criminal protectorate Kosovo and mainly the located there KFOR troops, who have contributed significantly to the slavery in the region. Some years ago the press wrote about a heavily wounded by an explosion Bulgarian woman in Kosovo. It turned out that the bomb had been planted by the major competitor of the pimp who “owned” the woman. This competitor obviously intended instead of killing his competitor to destroy his human commodity, what the Bulgarian woman for him was. Although it became evident that the woman was a sex slave neither there were follow-up writings on the case nor did the Bulgarian authorities try to help the many Bulgarian sex slaves in Kosovo. We did not read anything more about the woman and do not exclude that she was simply killed by her “owner” - he was barely inclined to take the costs of her treatment as after such a wounding she would never be able to “work” for him.   

About 2-3 years ago some media published the report of a woman, who had seen many young women, among them Bulgarians, in Albanian jails with extracted organs. Despite the proven notorious trade with human organs in Kosovo and Albania the only reaction of the Bulgarian authorities was a statement of the Foreign Ministry saying that its diplomatic missions in Prishtina and Tirana have not received any Information confirming that report - as if the butchers would advise the state bodies of their victims on their own crimes.

The irresponsibility and actually the participation of the Bulgarian authorities in the crimes against the Bulgarian victims of human trade is shocking but logical – without their participation the country could not become supply market of the modern slavery.

And if the participation of the Western authorities in human trade should not be surprising – in the case of Germany what the organized crime is doing under the command of the law-enforcing authorities is the same what the SS and the Wehrmacht did openly with the women of the defeated East European nations and most of the West European countries are associated with colonialism and neocolonialism or at least have participated in the trade with black slaves, the participation of the Bulgarian, Hungarian and other East European authorities in the slavery of their own citizens requires more detailed explanation.

This explanation is the actual neocolonialism, established in Eastern Europe with the victory of the Western powers in the Cold War under the leadership of the United States of America. The actual destruction of the East European economies, the impoverishment of the nations in the region and the new slavery are the results and at the same time the manifestation of this neocolonialism and the total dependence of the defeated countries from their new colonial powers. Our memberships in the EU and NATO mask the actual neocolonial relationships and provide the legal, administrative and economic basis of the dependence of the East Europeans. Whoever doubts the total American control over Bulgaria should look at the number of employees of the US embassy to Sofia and compare it to the figures from the bilateral trade and the staff number of the Bulgarian embassy to Washington. D.C. Then he or she will realize that this is not simply an embassy but a colonial administration.

I have already hinted about this neocolonialism in the article “The Swamp of the German State Criminality”, where I wrote that the plunder and criminalization of Leipzig say very much about the processes actually going on in the whole Eastern Europe. The major difference is that in Eastern Germany we have a pure colonialism, while in the rest of Eastern Europe we have neocolonialism, where the Western colonial powers hide behind established by them and loyal to them local establishments. The luck of public responsibility for the situation in these countries allows them to plunder even more while publicly criticizing the controlled by them local establishments for incompetence and corruption. The new colonialism is totalitarian and comprehensive but here I will limit myself to the aspects related to organized crime and human trade.

Exactly like in Leipzig, organized crime started flourishing throughout Eastern Europe after the political changes there. We have seen that it were the West German authorities and establishment, which imposed organized crime in Leipzig and in the new provinces. Same processes of imposing organized crime happened throughout Eastern Europe but the main imposer there were the secret services of the USA. Whoever has read “The Crime of the Congo” by Arthur Conan Doyle knows that the use of local criminals for the exploitation and plunder of colonies is nothing new. Unfortunately nothing since then has changed.

The only documented and publicly known establishment of local organized crime by the US services (in partnership with other Western services) is about Kosovo and Albania. This evidence is the report of the Swiss Euro deputy Mr. Dick Marti on the trade with human organs in Kosovo and Albania. Next to the undisputable formation and support of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) by the Americans and their West European Allies Mr. Marti uncovers this Army as military-criminal organization, which actually never has fought for independence or liberation and which during the Kosovo conflict was stationed in Northern Albania. The report stresses that the Americans as well as their European Allies were well informed on the mass killings of human beings in the area for their organs but have not undertaken anything to stop or prevent these crimes despite their undisputable influence over the KLA. Kosovo is nothing more than an American protectorate and nothing can happen there without the knowledge, consent and authorization of the Americans. It is not by chance that another American creature – The International Tribunal for Former Jugoslavia, has destroyed the evidences for the killings in the “Yellow House” – an actual slaughter house for human beings and did not take under protection the witnesses against the former prime minister of Kosovo Ramush Haradinaj in the process against him. After 19 (!) of these witnesses have been murdered the Tribunal released the prominent accused. There are heavy crimes in Kosovo but there are no criminals.

Until recently the Bulgarian organized crime was managed by a veteran of the Bulgarian secret services. His former colleagues claim that he started working for the US secret services already before the political changes at the end of the 80-ies happened.. This man is known as the grey cardinal of the contemporary political life in Bulgaria who turns down and sets up governments and nothing in the Ministry of Interior happens without his knowledge and permission. His wife until recently has lived in the USA as a successful businesswoman. Her actual business was to pick up the share of her husband after the Americans take theirs. The murder of Polli Pantev, a remarkable figure of the local criminal world uncovers very well the dependence of the Bulgarian organized crime from the American one. After one or two failed attempts on his life in Bulgaria he was shot dead during a stay on the island of Aruba. The newspapers wrote that he had had problems with the Columbian mafia. This is a true lie because under this circumstance this man would never go to Aruba, which everybody knows to be controlled by the Columbian mafia. The truth is that the Columbian as well as the Bulgarian mafia are international subsidiaries of the American mafia (Under mafia I understand the alliance of the governments with the organized crime). This, however, is known only by very few top figures in these subsidiaries and apparently Pantev was not one of them.

I am convinced that like in Bulgaria organized crime in all East European countries is managed by persons, representing the US secret services and enjoying their trust.

Parallel to the establishment of organized crime the colonial powers have destroyed the Bulgarian justice. This destruction is particularly evident in the instigated by them (in these cases by the USA and Great Britain) “process against the generals” and in the “process on the destruction of the dossier of the writer Georgi Markov” at the beginning of the 90-ies. Both were political processes, where the main defendants were offered mild sentences and financial benefits as reward for admission of their fault. In the first process the admissions were to support the American claims for participation of Bulgaria in the attempt on the life of Pope John Paul II and in the second they were to support the British claims for participation of Bulgaria in the death of the dissident writer Georgi Markov. These admissions of fault were needed as there were no material evidences for the accusations for the simple reason that these accusations were not justified. The processes simply served the purpose of transfer the fault for some crimes of the colonial powers to their new colony. Since then it is almost a standard practice of the Bulgarian justice to put the blame for the crimes of the organized crime on petty criminals as the case with Miroslava reveals.

The American leadership of the international organized crime imposes the obvious conclusion about the American leadership in human trade and in the modern slavery, which I maintain in this article. Global crimes can be organized and managed only by a global power. Here I will come with additional arguments for the fundamental role of the USA and its secret services in the modern slavery.

The report of Mr. Dick Marti reveals that the channels for trafficking victims for sexual exploitation and victims of trade with human organs are the same, which says that they are controlled by the same people and institutions. In Kosovo they are definitely American.

Everywhere, where American and their allied troops are located, the human trade for sexual exploitation flourishes. Same is true for the countries, in which the Americans establish their dominance. The Canadian journalist Victor Malarek, one of the most distinguished writers on the modern slavery, describes the situation in the notorious training polygons and auction markets for slave girls in from the US supported former Yugoslavian states in the 90-ies, where former “freedom fighters” applied the brutality acquired by them during the war to their victims before selling them in the West. The here mentioned slaveholder countries – Germany, Switzerland and Denmark are in fact close allies of the US (by Switzerland this is informal).

The American porno industry, shaped by growing brutality and perversity, sets the standards for the sex industry and for the sex slavery. Much of what it presents and encourages is later demanded in the brothels and can be performed only by women exposed to violence and enforcement.

Recently I read a research on the US porno industry, according to which the biggest group of performers in the industry is born in the USA, followed by performers from…Hungary and the Czech Republic. The Hungarian and Czech communities there are so tiny that these can be only women from the Hungarian and Czech national slaveholder organizations, which control the whole porno industry and all porno performers in their countries. I have already written that many of the victims are presented and marketed as porno actresses and of course the US porno industry is the number one field for their exploitation. The porno industries are controlled by the people, who control the sex slavery, and it is logical that many of the performers are sex slaves.    

The USA is a country with an uninterrupted experience with slavery and its management – the average life expectancy of a prostitute in Cuba before the revolution was 7 years! It seems that they apply their cruel experience on their new slaves from Eastern Europe.                        

In my narrative about Leipzig I have already mentioned two circumstances, pointing out at the Americans as the leaders of the modern slavery. These were my finding that the fake correspondence with the non-existing Fedpol official Beat Humbel ran through an American server near Kansas City, which means that the whole Information landed by the Americans, and the last 15 entries, made from the USA in the day the human traders found my blog – January 11, 2011.

Therefore I claim that all central East European slaveholder organizations and with them the many thousands of sex slaves are property and a source of enormous wealth for the American secret services and the decision makers who control them. I mean mainly the CIA – first, because this service is competent for human trade outside the USA and provides the data for the US annual reports on human trade (same formal and informal functions for Germany are performed by BKA) and second, because of the evidences that the agency is not relying solely and even mainly on the budget financing it receives but in fact has its own criminal economy, in which weapon, drugs and human trades play a major role. The Afghan war is not only a geopolitical war but also an opium war, which enabled the vast increase of the heroin trade in the last years.

The American control over the central East European human trade organizations is the explanation why the Germans treat these organization (unlike as their states) as equal partners – because the real partner behind them are the Americans who get the bulk of the profits of these organizations.

The American control over not only the central human trade organizations, making up the backbone of the modern slavery but over the modern slavery at all is the explanation why human trade is a taboo topic in the Bulgarian politics and mass media and why the Bulgarian authorities not only do not counteract human trade but support it.

The American control is also the explanation why none of the many Western mass media, I approached to write about the Hungarians in Leipzig, dared to do so.

The modern slavery boils down to the enslavement of a vast number of citizens of the new colonies in Eastern Europe by the Americans through the subordinated to them local organized crime, to the following delivery of the victims to the slave markets of North America and of the American allies in Western Europe and their joint exploitation by the Western partners. This slavery is an extremely brutal exploitation and annihilation of the human resources of the East European colonies. Bulgarians, Hungarians and the other east European sex slaves are exposed to the same inhuman treatment as they have the same oppressor – the United States of America. I am sure that their average life expectancy like by the former US victims in Cuba does not exceed 7 years and the main question is whether these women die from exploitation or as victims of the trade with human organs.