'Slave-like conditions' on Swedish army base
Published: 7 Jan 12 16:02 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/38380/20120107/
Kitchen staff at the Swedish military base in Afghanistan have been working under "slave-like conditions", being forced to pay for employment, according to a report by Swedish daily Expressen.
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"As a Swede you get outraged over all the injustices and we look at this type of exploitation very seriously."
At a routine check at the Swedish military base in Afghanistan, the Swedish Armed Forces discovered the inhumane conditions the staff were subjected to and put their staffing service, Swiss company Supreme, against the wall.
Supreme then carried out an internal investigation and has confirmed that they had hired a recruitment agency to find personnel for the kitchens.
It was allegedly this company which forced the staff to pay for their jobs, which in practice meant they had to hand over up to eight month's pay in return for employment.
Most of the workers are Indian or Nepalese and the responsible company is believed to be located in India.
Supreme has since notified the Swedish Armed Forces that they will report the company and carry out an investigation into the suspicions of human trafficking.
The company also claimed to have cancelled their contract with the Indian company, but has as of yet made no promises regarding compensation for the exploited personnel, according to Expressen.
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SAAB os gone......Americans dont want grippen n saab fighter planes in markete so where is deal with Brazil and India and Pakistan.................hell with war lovers
i cant wait until Ron Paul wins the presidency and he withdraws ALL military bases world wide and pulls ALL troops from around the world and puts them on OUR boarders.... We will see how much hate you all have for America then.... doesnt matter though, when that happens and we arent babysitting the world you all will be on here screaming how selfish we are, we cant win so troll on
Lets just stop for a moment and reflect on all those areas/countries where the US is involved and look at the history of the place...
Unfortunately, it is all "self-inflicted" due to past US policy and actions.....
Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate - only the unloved hate; only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers - don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty.
In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written "the kingdom of God is within man" - not one man, nor a group of men - but in all men - in you, the people."
efm, is this a problem?
Yes the cynical might see it as one big Buy & sell market. And didn't Sweden for example buy American helicopters for almost five billion SEK, to be used in Afghanistan? Ah yes, here it is:
http://www.thelocal.se/33110/20110409/
Financial crises or not; the humanity will always find money for war machinery.
You should read Zignew Brezinski's (sp? - President Carters National Security Advisor) interview from the 1990's where he said they had the CIA create a situation in Afghanistan where the Soviets would be forced to invade.
I don't know what it was like before those days in the 1970's, but the last 30 years of war in that country are the results of them trying to artificially create a Vietnam like situation for the Soviet Union using Afghanistan people as pawns. I think it's impossible to say how many were killed over that timeperiod and what damages have been caused to education there.
Remember, that event and the CIA's training created the Muslim extremest we know today.
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Also, as long as there are tich and poor nations, the richer nations will always employ some from the poorer nations to do some of their job, but that does not mean that you have to treat them like C--p.
One doesn't have to be non-Swedish to see through that false surface! Sometimes I'm calling Sweden "det skenheliga landet Sverige" (skenhelig = sanctimonious). ;)Here people are pretending too much... :P
Rise, I think Sweden is trying to solve the problem, which is more than the US/UK has ever tried to do.
Swedish wife's relatives quite accurately.
Also a closed synonym is " "self righteous". "fake"
"plastic" oh that old word Hypocrite!
I guess I just want to lift forward the fact that Sweden does dirty things but has a very hard time admitting any wrongdoings... :-/