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Oscar Winner Kickstarts Documentary to Expose U.S. Military’s Role in International Sex Trafficking
Date Posted: Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Category: Human Trafficking/Sexual Exploitation - National
Sex traffickers in the Phillipines guised as legitimate entertainment recruiters contract women, paying for their singing lessons, E-6 passports, uniforms and flights to South Korea. In Korea, they are forced into prostitution through debt bondage. Producer David Goodman stated the only reason these women are there are to service military personnel and contractors in Korea. The documentary went under cover to expose the crime, the entrapment, the shame, the military culture, and the long term effects of the U.S., South Korean and Philippine governments complicitly turning blind eyes to this crime against humanity for over a century. He considers his upcoming documentary, "Singers" in the Band, a "companion piece" to "The Invisible War" documentary, released in 2012, about sexual assault in the U.S. military.
Read the full article at: The WRAP