10/12/2011

Today in history class, we watched videos clips of anti- slavery commercials. The first one we watched was really touching and I felt so depressed and wanted to cry. It talked about how children were taken away when young, and female ones were raped or else they would be tortured by electricity shocks. They had to serve around 30 men everyday. Just thinking about living a life like that makes me feel really bad. I'm living such a wonderful life and sometimes not being grateful about it, when people around the world are suffering from this kind of torture. Afterwards, we read an article about Missing children in China. The rate was incredibly high. The government of China say that there are 10,000 kids kidnapped per year, but other countries estimate that there are actually around 70,000 kids. The Chinese government only counts the cases in which the children are found and have proof that they did get kidnapped. And they say that it's a fact that the more deformed a child is, the more money they get when they beg. So, almost all of them that come back are deformed. Also, it's almost impossible to find them back since the handlers are so smart that they take the kids to a far away place and the family wouldn't have a way to track them down. This is so depressing. Imagine your own kid being taken away and tortured. How would you be able to eat or even sleep? Knowing that your kid is suffering in the exact moment you're eating would make you loose your appetite almost immediately. I guess I wouldn't be able to do anything about it, but I believe that the Chinese government should be making websites and posting commercials on TV to increase public awareness about this issue.