"There is pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep sea and the music in its roar;
I love not man the less, but Nature more." –Lord Byron
Ahh, society!!! Wish i had the strength to completely escape from this sick society full of hypocrites,lunatics, and liars...and be just content with my own solitude.But this world is too small to escape from anything.No matter how far i go, everything seems just a click away...
I wonder, exactly how much of our happiness comes from human relationships??
Monday, August 31, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Glory, Glory Mongolia!!!
Mongol maani uneheer hugjij bainaa… Gaihaltai!!! Zun ochihod l Adidas, Esprit, Swarovski delguuruud neegdchihsen, Hilton, Shangri La buudluud udahgui neeltee hiine getsgeegeed l. Deerees ni Ulaanbaatariin gudamjaar yu l baina duuren tom tom mashinuud suljildetsgeegeed, yamar saindaa mani met shig yavgan humuust bagtaj shingej alhah gazar oldohgui baihavdee. Ziak tegeed shuniin Ulaanbaatar bol buur ch sak!!! Yun ter delhii niitiin ediin zasgiin hyamral, Ulaanbaatart bol oroi bolgon pub, club-uud pig duuren, bur achaallaa diilehgui baigaa yanztai. Baahan l Dolce, Prada umsuj Chanel barisan ohiduud. Goy, goy!!
Gevch uneheer Mongol maani hugjuud baina uu gehleer bas uguimaa. Quiza-giin “Oluulaa” duun deer gardag shig uneheer l zarim humuusiin amidral tsaanaa l neg zoviurtai, amidral ni ulam buur doroitson tednii huvid Ulaanbaatar hot yag l heveeree saaraltan tsenhertseer… Bayachuud ni ulam bayajij, yaduus ni ulam l yaduuraad baigaa ene niigmiig yaltai ch bilee dee. Sayhan online deer “From Chinggis to Louis- Is the new Louis Vuitton Shop in Ulaanbaatar the start of a new area in Mongolian Globalization?” gesen niitlel unshsan yum baina. Yahav gadniihnaas yugaaraa duthav, tedend bas Chinggis haaniihaa hushuunuus uur neg haruulah yumtai bolson bolj l baina.Gehdee Mongoliin hugjliig heden delguur, zochid buudlaar hemjine gevel denduu uruusgul oilgolt bolno. Unendee neg hund noogdoh dotoodiin niit buteegdehuun ni ( GDP per capita) 3200 dollar chuutai aitai hurdeg Mongol shig oron Mercedes mashin, Louis Vuitton tsunheer hahaj tsatsaad baigaa ni hugjij bui ediin zasgiin shinj yaltai ch bish, harin ch bur yalzarsan ediin zasgiin todoos tod ilerhiilel. Ene ni gehdee gants Mongold ch bolood baigaa uzegdel bish yumaa, huuchin sots ornuud bolon gadniihnii colony baisan ornuud ihevchlen economic stratification gej nerleed baigaa umchiin het haritsangui huvaarilaltand orson baidag. Afrikiin ornuud l gehed bugd ugeegui hooson, ulsgulun tarchlangaar duuren gesen oilgoltiig “media” delhiid taraadag. Gevch ted baylaggui yaduudaa ulsuugui odoo Mongold bolood baigaa umchiin shudarga bus huvaarilalt l uusseniihee ur dund hun amiinhaa 80-aas deesh huviiig ni ulsguchihuud, uldsen 10 hedhen oligarchuud ni hamag bayalgiig ni huvaaj iden importiin Louis Vuitton, Mercedes bolgochihood baigaa yum chen yaj ch uls ni hugjihuvdee.
Mongold l gehed taamag toogoor ulsiin niit bayalgiig ezemshdeg 200-gaad l urh baidag gedeg yum bainalee. Hedhen tom corporate business-uud uneheer gazar avchihsan, business erhlegchid uls turchidteigee tolgoi holbon baij l ajil buteedeg, uneheer “crony capitalism”-iin todoos tod jishee ni Mongol boljee. Haa saigui ediin zasag taaruu baihad, Mongoliin oligarchuudiin nair naadam dundrahgui ulam halgij tsalgisaar l … Uunii tailbariig harin Ediin Zasgiin Uhaanaar Nobel avsan, Columbiin Ih Surguuliin professor Joseph Stiglitz “ Olon Ulsiin Valyutiin San”, “Delhiin Bank” bolon busad zasgiin gazraas “hugjig bui ornuud”-n ediin zasgiig demjih zorilgotoi ugsun tuslamjiin mungu margaash ni l gehed Swiss Bank-nii dansand ali hediin orchihson yavj baidagtai holbon tailbarlasan baidag. Tegvel Mongold odoogoor tulgarch baigaa uniin het hoorogdolt ( inflation), Amerik Dollariin tengert Tulsan hanshnaas hen hojij taarhav… Unuuh l heden turiin tolgoid baigaa uls turchid, bolon tednii nuluund ajlaa erheldeg corporate businessiinhen. Dollariin hansh nemegdej, Mongol tugrugnii hansh sulrah tusam Mongol Oron bolon Mongold amidrah gej yadaj baigaa dund davhargiinhan, tusviin ajilchid, huviaraa business erhlegchid geed Mongoliin hun amiin ihenh huvid ni hundeer tusaj baihad harin unuuh heden oligarchuud maani harin ch ulam bayarlan gadaadaas zuvchuulsan heden dollaraa Mongold uchnuun tugrug bolgochihood jinhene haan shig l duraaraa tsengej Mercedesee unaj Louis Vuitton-oo baritsgaana…
Mongol maani uneheer hugjij bainaa… Gaihaltai!!! Zun ochihod l Adidas, Esprit, Swarovski delguuruud neegdchihsen, Hilton, Shangri La buudluud udahgui neeltee hiine getsgeegeed l. Deerees ni Ulaanbaatariin gudamjaar yu l baina duuren tom tom mashinuud suljildetsgeegeed, yamar saindaa mani met shig yavgan humuust bagtaj shingej alhah gazar oldohgui baihavdee. Ziak tegeed shuniin Ulaanbaatar bol buur ch sak!!! Yun ter delhii niitiin ediin zasgiin hyamral, Ulaanbaatart bol oroi bolgon pub, club-uud pig duuren, bur achaallaa diilehgui baigaa yanztai. Baahan l Dolce, Prada umsuj Chanel barisan ohiduud. Goy, goy!!
Gevch uneheer Mongol maani hugjuud baina uu gehleer bas uguimaa. Quiza-giin “Oluulaa” duun deer gardag shig uneheer l zarim humuusiin amidral tsaanaa l neg zoviurtai, amidral ni ulam buur doroitson tednii huvid Ulaanbaatar hot yag l heveeree saaraltan tsenhertseer… Bayachuud ni ulam bayajij, yaduus ni ulam l yaduuraad baigaa ene niigmiig yaltai ch bilee dee. Sayhan online deer “From Chinggis to Louis- Is the new Louis Vuitton Shop in Ulaanbaatar the start of a new area in Mongolian Globalization?” gesen niitlel unshsan yum baina. Yahav gadniihnaas yugaaraa duthav, tedend bas Chinggis haaniihaa hushuunuus uur neg haruulah yumtai bolson bolj l baina.Gehdee Mongoliin hugjliig heden delguur, zochid buudlaar hemjine gevel denduu uruusgul oilgolt bolno. Unendee neg hund noogdoh dotoodiin niit buteegdehuun ni ( GDP per capita) 3200 dollar chuutai aitai hurdeg Mongol shig oron Mercedes mashin, Louis Vuitton tsunheer hahaj tsatsaad baigaa ni hugjij bui ediin zasgiin shinj yaltai ch bish, harin ch bur yalzarsan ediin zasgiin todoos tod ilerhiilel. Ene ni gehdee gants Mongold ch bolood baigaa uzegdel bish yumaa, huuchin sots ornuud bolon gadniihnii colony baisan ornuud ihevchlen economic stratification gej nerleed baigaa umchiin het haritsangui huvaarilaltand orson baidag. Afrikiin ornuud l gehed bugd ugeegui hooson, ulsgulun tarchlangaar duuren gesen oilgoltiig “media” delhiid taraadag. Gevch ted baylaggui yaduudaa ulsuugui odoo Mongold bolood baigaa umchiin shudarga bus huvaarilalt l uusseniihee ur dund hun amiinhaa 80-aas deesh huviiig ni ulsguchihuud, uldsen 10 hedhen oligarchuud ni hamag bayalgiig ni huvaaj iden importiin Louis Vuitton, Mercedes bolgochihood baigaa yum chen yaj ch uls ni hugjihuvdee.
Mongold l gehed taamag toogoor ulsiin niit bayalgiig ezemshdeg 200-gaad l urh baidag gedeg yum bainalee. Hedhen tom corporate business-uud uneheer gazar avchihsan, business erhlegchid uls turchidteigee tolgoi holbon baij l ajil buteedeg, uneheer “crony capitalism”-iin todoos tod jishee ni Mongol boljee. Haa saigui ediin zasag taaruu baihad, Mongoliin oligarchuudiin nair naadam dundrahgui ulam halgij tsalgisaar l … Uunii tailbariig harin Ediin Zasgiin Uhaanaar Nobel avsan, Columbiin Ih Surguuliin professor Joseph Stiglitz “ Olon Ulsiin Valyutiin San”, “Delhiin Bank” bolon busad zasgiin gazraas “hugjig bui ornuud”-n ediin zasgiig demjih zorilgotoi ugsun tuslamjiin mungu margaash ni l gehed Swiss Bank-nii dansand ali hediin orchihson yavj baidagtai holbon tailbarlasan baidag. Tegvel Mongold odoogoor tulgarch baigaa uniin het hoorogdolt ( inflation), Amerik Dollariin tengert Tulsan hanshnaas hen hojij taarhav… Unuuh l heden turiin tolgoid baigaa uls turchid, bolon tednii nuluund ajlaa erheldeg corporate businessiinhen. Dollariin hansh nemegdej, Mongol tugrugnii hansh sulrah tusam Mongol Oron bolon Mongold amidrah gej yadaj baigaa dund davhargiinhan, tusviin ajilchid, huviaraa business erhlegchid geed Mongoliin hun amiin ihenh huvid ni hundeer tusaj baihad harin unuuh heden oligarchuud maani harin ch ulam bayarlan gadaadaas zuvchuulsan heden dollaraa Mongold uchnuun tugrug bolgochihood jinhene haan shig l duraaraa tsengej Mercedesee unaj Louis Vuitton-oo baritsgaana…
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Book Review: Orientalism
Edward Said sets about the idea of “Orient” with a primary focus on the Islamic communities and the Far East, basing his views on the bias of conflicting cultures including the role of Orientalism in colonialism. He thoroughly illustrates how even sufficiently repeated misinformation can come to a point where it becomes an academic work and how it is an evidence of cultural history goes drastically wrong. Especially it is the contemporary antagonistic reaction to Orientalist stereotypes and prejudices that Edward Said stands against. He explains that the socio-political status quo between the West and the Islam Near East cannot be understated. As the media expands its width and information becomes easily accessible than ever, Oriental biases are at the same the being perpetuated more than ever with shameless stereotype of Islam even by the mainstream news media.
A modern coverage of the US policy in the Middle East since September 11 is a one example. Many years of partnership and diplomatic ties were suddenly saturated the public with the burlesque of all Muslims are terrorists by the media machine. Within an overnight, Iraqis were transferred from civilized partners to sworn enemies and normal Muslims were reduced to no value in the mainstream mind. Though bluntly put, that is what Orientalism is: a manner of regularized writing and vision dominated by the perspectives of Western imperatives that frames the Western consciousness and shows everything else in the mirror image of inferiority to the West.
He also describes that such “distinction between Western superiority and Oriental inferiority” (42) was proliferated namely in the years of Western expansion 19th century. Although Orientalism has long been existent, it was later made concrete by the stereotypical analysis of scientists, explorers and scholars. Like the “Imagined Communities” Said also argues that the dividing line between the West and the East is “more than anything else imaginative.” (55) It was invented as a way for Westerners to reconcile their fear of the Near East and Islam, and it offers a set of rules that generalizes a diverse population.
Edward Said makes three major claims in Orientalism: that Orientalism served political ends, it helped to frame Europe’s self-image, and finally he claims that Orientalism has produced a catalytic description of especially an Islamic culture. His claims are supported with both acute and original insights that leave the readers without any doubt why Orientalism has been such a controversial discourse since its first publication in 1978.
His scope of writing is revolutionary in itself, and much of his arguments are very convincing. In one way it revolutionizes the way we think about the European imperialism, assuring us that the imperial power was forced beyond politically and economically but culturally. His textual deconstruction of colonial literature shapes the thinking of postcolonial theorists concerned with colonial literary criticism. He also suggests that the West was a less homogenous phenomenon while the discourse of the Oriental is of many other discourses. In almost all cases, the presenters treated the Oriented as simply dangerous, crude and full o exoticism. The idea came from the paintings of artists who wished to sell scenes of an exotic scene and novelists who wished to write about exotic foreign lands. That is how Westerners came to have a superficial knowledge about these exotic locales where everything is reverse of their own.
However, the author’s personal engagement with the subject as a Palestinian living in America sort of distorts his judgments and he neglects to point out the bidirectional relationship of cultural influence and does not demonstrate how the Orient influenced the West as well. Regardless of disregarding the bidirectional relationship, Orientalism gives a whole new insight to the mindset of people in West Europe and America think about “the rest” which are everything that was not the West. It provides a literary and academic explanation for racism ahead of purely emotional perspective.
After the terrorist attack of September 11th, people have become to give much importance to the words like “Islamic fundamentalism” and “Islam threat” etc. This new publication of “Orientalism” serves as a reminder to the alarmed public that such “Islam threat” is nothing new, in fact a very old phenomenon. It is the West that has created heavily biased, erroneous knowledge of the Orient at the first place. Overly exaggerated perceptions of the Orient are propagated and thus the Orient itself loses its self-determined value and becomes a counterfeit identity inferior to Occidental originality and genuineness. Edward Said may not have predicted that his book would create this huge controversy and have far-reaching implications as it has now. But his claims are definitely one of the most scholarly explanations to why and how the current US-led foreign policy has such twofold strategy of spreading Western idea of democracy and fighting terrorism. Even though the after has devoted much time and given insightful thoughts on the Western creation of the Orient, he does not spend hardly any time on the contrary. Thus, after reading “Orientalism” the readers might left wondering about what might be the real approach to understanding the Orient, if all we know now is a falsely created stereotypical perception created by the West.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Friday, June 13, 2008
I apologize for always posting my same dull school papers. But i just find it much easier to keep it on my blog rather than saving it in a flash. This one is my final paper from last semester, still dunno what i got.Hope it will give you a little more information about human trafficking and slavery.
Human trafficking and modern day slavery
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
~Victor Hugo
Slavery has long been existent in our society. It can be traced back its root from the ancient Greek and Egyptian civilization, to the 15th century Spanish and Portuguese colonialism. In relatively modern times, the Nazi regime created labor camps that forced people to work to death. Same thing was existent in Russia during the 1930s to 1960s, with complex lagers (labor camps) consisting of thousands of laborers from Eastern Europe. Slavery in America also began soon after the English colonists first settled in Virginia.
Many people now believe that the Emancipation Proclamation abolished slavery along with the ratification of the 13th amendment. Still, we think that slavery was put to an end when most countries outlawed it in the 20th century. But as a matter of fact, there are more slaves in the contemporary world than it ever had in history. According to the census of the United Nations, there are over 4 million women being sold from one country to another, and there are over 10 million children in brothels around the world. These women and children are forced to become sex slaves without any escape. The victims of sex slavery are mostly women and children from the rural areas of third world country brought to the major cities across the border. This kind of human trafficking has been increasing significantly in recent years, and it has become the 3rd largest transnational crime in the world. Human trafficking is a highly organized crime with its links ranging from the legitimate corporations to terrorist activists. The study from UNICEF proves that a human trafficking is an international industry worth of 10 billion dollars.
Specifically, Southeast Asia is the heart of the human trafficking and sex tourism. Girls from the impoverished rural towns of Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Philippines are sold as low as $200, and some are promised a job offer in the cities but instead they would be locked up in brothels. In fact two third of those girls are sold, kidnapped, coerced by someone they know including relatives and family members. The pimps would tell the girls that they can buy their way out little by little until they are rich, or they would tell the girls that they send money to their family back home. A girl named Chantha from Cambodia who escaped from the brothel tells the reporters that she was offered to be a maid in a house, but instead kept in a brothel and forced to have sex with as many as 15 to 20 men a day.
There are many reasons why these inhumane evil still exist today. Under-education of women is a contributing factor to the forced prostitution. About 80% of women in Cambodia are illiterate and only 5% of the girls ever finish school and the rest only pass through 3rd grade. There is a very few availability of education in the rural areas, and the boys are chosen over girls for the opportunity to go to school. With such limited education and knowledge they are easily deceived. Poverty is another major factor that contributes to the sex slavery. Most of the people in these regions live on a daily basis of hand to mouth. Parents have difficulties providing food for their children, so some parents sell their children for strangers, and husbands sell their wives. Some girls sacrifice themselves in order to add a little more income to their families. Others are offered a job to do in cities to support their families, without knowing what they are getting into.
Young girls are sold into brothels as early as their 6 and 7 years. In the streets of Bangkok there would be 7 year olds dressed in miniskirts ready to be served in exchange of pocket money. Men are seeking for younger partners nowadays, because of the less possibility of getting infected from sexually transmitted diseases. The customers would not hesitate to pay higher price for HIV free virgins. But in the near 5 years or so, those little girls themselves get diseased with HIV or other diseases and left on the streets waiting for their death. Study shows that 70% of those who were child prostitutes are tested HIV positive. Once they are treated that way, it is almost impossible to go back to society and live a normal life. First, they are infected with diseases and second they carry the shame of their situation throughout their entire life. In other words, they become the untouchables of the society after such humiliation.
A British anthropologist Louis Brown spent several years in conducting intensive research on human trafficking in Asia. Along the way, based on his various works, he found out that majority of male customers of sex tourism are Asian men, and two third of all adult Thai men have visited brothels at least once. This shows us the human rights level in that area, and how the society tolerates such inhumane act.
There are laws against sex slavery in these areas, but often the girls are the ones who get arrested while the customers and the pimps remain behind the curtain. Some girls escape and run to police for help; but sex slavery is a highly organized crime that law enforcement agency workers are even involved in most of the cases. The street polices are rewarded with $700- 800 for hiding a case, and in fact they are the major customers of the brothels.
Despite the street polices there are diverse group of participants in the human trafficking business. Government officials, law enforcement agency workers, legitimate travel agencies, lawyers and even gamblers are involved in this business since it is an opportunity to make lots of money. In Indonesia, the brothel complexes’ annual income is estimated from $2 to $3 billion, which is around 1- 2.4% of its GDP. In Thailand, sex tourism produced $22-$27 billion dollars between 1993 to 1995, which was a 14% of the country’s total GDP.
Living conditions in the brothels are terrible, and usually two, three girls share a room that virtually consists of single mattress. One girl from Nepali who was trafficked in a brothel in India said that she was kept in a dark room with no window for 2 years along with two other girls. Often they were beaten and raped by unknown men and they were fed only once a day. And the girls would sometimes talk about how it would be to feel the sunshine again. (Brown p.226)
Speaking of India, India is the lead country that dominates the human trafficking victims. According to a sociology professor in Roehampton University Kevin Bales’ data, India only by itself contains estimated number of 20 million slaves. (Zhang, p.108) Here people are mostly trafficked from Nepal and Bangladesh; recently Nepali girls younger than 10 year old are becoming one of the main targets of sex business in India.
So, Nepal and Bangladesh girls are smuggled into India, Cambodia and Myanmar girls are sold into Thailand. Unfortunately, this human trafficking does not only take place in Southeast Asia. Girls from Eastern Europe are smuggled and sold into the rich metropolises of Europe such as London, Paris, and Berlin etc. In America, the US state department intelligence reported that there are between 45000 and 50000 women and children being trafficked each year. Majority of these girls are from Mexico, Colombia, and other Latin American countries.
If you see this pattern, you might have realized that human trafficking business which has its roots from excessive poverty starts from the rural areas of a country to the cities and from the cities to overseas. Most of the victims of human trafficking are citizens from post-communist countries. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union along with opening of China, the world has been experiencing the largest rate of human migration. The mighty Soviet Union collapsed in a matter of overnight and proved the absolute failure of communist utopia. The government has been creating artificial employments, and the communist regime could not handle it anymore. The factories no longer held 5 workers for a job that actually required one worker; no longer had they needed 5 people to milk one cow. Within a night millions of people found themselves a surplus; jobless and homeless.
China took an inauguration policy shifting all the resources to the central cities leaving the rural citizens behind, while Soviet Union did not know how to respond. The whole Eastern bloc was under a crises during the early 1990`s, with the same reason. The people of Lenin had no idea how to respond to a capitalist system and how to make a living, as they were so used to the ex-government control. In search of jobs and way of living, they migrate from their rural towns and to the cities, but intense competition for jobs in the city would not give them a chance. Many of them try to flee to a different country, hoping it would accept them in the society. Unfortunately, at each step of the migration, those people become more and more vulnerable. Meanwhile, others are organized into networks to take advantage of their vulnerability by exploiting the migrants for their filthy profiteering.
In the contemporary world, globalism not only ensured the free movements of trade and capitals. But at the same time, it increased the mobility of human smuggling and transnational crimes. With increased mobility and networking, the human trafficking is the fastest growing cross-border business, with its executives and advocates ranging from regular pimps to multi-millionaires, and political leaders. From a different perspective, globalization does not bring equal opportunities for people. The difference between a third world and first world countries are very transparent in a global capitalism, and rather than filling the gap between the two bipolar, administrators of political spectrums see the situation silently with tolerance.
Within an overnight, communism collapsed and Western capitalism swept the whole Asia-pacific. Not only it brought new ideology, it brought new value to the whole region. People were considered as rich by the acre of lands they owned, by the number of cattle they raised. But the western capitalism forced its own economic value too quickly, that many countries could not make the adjustment. They were offered the capitalist dreams, but now they are left on the markets. In this new century of “human rights” and “equality”, the people from a vulnerable society are being used as serving agents to the capitalist markets. In fact, the human trafficking business does not end, because the demand for it does not let it stop.
The exploitation and slavery are the central debates against globalization and human rights in a modern world. But as we struggle through this debate, there are new forms of human trafficking that are not yet recognized by law and have not been heard in mass public. After the breakdown from the Soviet Union in Mongolia, and following the collapse of communism in the early 1990’s, the first generation of street children was born in Mongolia. Due to economic crises, many parents abandoned their children and created the first generation of orphanages as well. Those kids live around the main public centers such as mall and restaurants begging for food and money, and in winter they live inside underground holes where the heating pipes go through. However, in the past few years it was vivid for the society that the visibility of those street children was far less that what is used to be.
Unfortunately, it is not because the economy is improving or the street children are being taken care of. Sadly, it has been suspected that those children were sold to Korea for body parts trading. Healthy organs can cost thousand of dollars in a developed country, and there were some serious suspects and probabilities of human trafficking business which they export the street children and sell their hearts, lungs etc for different purposes.
The other shape of human trafficking that is not well known among us is the link between human trafficking and terrorism. Obviously, terrorists do not rely on growing corns and rice to support its terrorist activities. They tap into already established illegal channels to acquire the needs and funds to continue their mission. In many parts of the world, especially in the Balkans and Southeast Asia, money made from human trafficking is used for arms sales and funding of terrorism.
In Eastern Europe, the destruction of social fabric caused by the war, massive migration flows, and the economic collapse of the early 1990’s all contributed together to create fertile ground for dealers of human being and arms sales. There is hardly anyone who has conducted a research on that very link between human trafficking and terrorism. Most of our knowledge on that matter comes from anecdotal stories in the newspaper, or reports. Dejan Anastasijevic is one of the few researchers who write on such topic. He is a free-lance Balkan correspondent for “Time” magazine, and according to him, vast quantities of weapons left over from the World War II are in the hands of dealers, to be exported and used for terrorist activities. Dejan writes that during the war Yugoslavia maintained 4th largest army in Europe, accompanied by the matching industrial complex. Nothing was thrown away destroyed after the war; instead they are stashed in secret warehouses for trade and future use. Albania, Serbia, Kosovo and some in Bosnia and Croatia are well loaded by the remaining army stockpiles as well.
These weapons are exported illegally through the use of already established illegal transnational channels such as human trafficking. These groups might have been engaged to help Saddam Hussein and according to Dejan, “The series of contracts, secretly closed between Saddam's and Milosevic's governments in late 1999, resulted in a flow of weapons and equipment to Baghdad, including armor-piercing missiles, rockets, anti-tank ammunition, tank engines, various explosives, chemical stabilizers, and grenade launchers, as well as missile fuel, MiG aircraft engines, spare parts and expert advice on how to configure air defenses against the US.” The human trafficking and illegal arms sales are deeply intertwined as both of them are embedded in the pervasive culture of corruption.
The people of these regions are sick and tired of being exploited by transnational criminals. While writing this paper, I came to a conclusion that the population explosion that flooded the post communist market and the revolution of economic globalization, accompanied with human violence and corruption are the major factor that created this vulnerable society of millions of people. The sweeping economic globalization forced the rural people for migration and dispossessed them to slavery and exploitation. Now, the new market economy is stretching its arms and taking advantage of this vulnerable society.
It is not the first time happening in the world, as a matter of fact the Industrial Revolution in Europe and America brought a similar social distinction to the population. Now, the newly developing countries are facing the same challenges and repeating the same pattern. While rapid economic growth brings luxury and new technology to some, others are being consumed and sucked into this system to be used as a cheap labor and to be taken advantage of. The only care we can show this social stratification, is to eliminate the extreme poverty. You have read that how people in these regions live on a daily basis of hand to mouth, and how they become vulnerable to trafficking and slavery when they are in desperate need of money. To make matters worse, population rate is high in the third world countries, and rural regions of the world as opposed to the developed countries. The population growth rate of France is 0.5, Germany -0.3, UK 0.27, US 0.88, Italy -0.02 compared to developing nations of Asia such as Cambodia 1.75, Bangladesh 2.02 ; Nepal 2.05 and Philippines 1.73. The surplus population of these vulnerable societies is in fact born outside the system of universal human rights. 1 out of 10 children in these poor regions will become prostitutes, as if they were destined to do that.
Sadly, the world is generating this human rights distinction by tolerating it with ignorance and silence. Amnesty International, Greenpeace and UN have millions of supporters worldwide, but their concentration on fighting against human trafficking is very little compared to their over-all mission. The only main groups working against human trafficking is Free the Slaves in America, and Anti-Slavery International in Britain. ( Bales, Kevin p.258) But together they have fewer than 15 thousand members world-wide. And the rest of their work is trapped by public ignorance.
In America, people are not aware of what is going on outside of the border. It is a common notion to think that the world evolves around them, and other issues are simply treated with ignorance and arrogance. It is written in the first article of universal declaration of human rights, that: “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in the universal Declaration of Human Rights, without distinction of any kind, such as race, creed, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.”
Still, the world itself generates the distinction between people based on their race and economic level. The reason why human trafficking does not get the public awareness as it is suppose to is because, the victims are all from a small countries. Not just human trafficking, terrorism has long been existent in our society, yet it only got mass media attention after 9/11 and America got involved in it. The human trafficking issue that involves millions of women and children in different parts of the world should be a world phenomenon that must be addressed. After all, we need to remember that “The tears of the red, yellow, black, brown and white man are all the same” and start caring for things that are going on across your border as well.
Human trafficking and modern day slavery
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
~Victor Hugo
Slavery has long been existent in our society. It can be traced back its root from the ancient Greek and Egyptian civilization, to the 15th century Spanish and Portuguese colonialism. In relatively modern times, the Nazi regime created labor camps that forced people to work to death. Same thing was existent in Russia during the 1930s to 1960s, with complex lagers (labor camps) consisting of thousands of laborers from Eastern Europe. Slavery in America also began soon after the English colonists first settled in Virginia.
Many people now believe that the Emancipation Proclamation abolished slavery along with the ratification of the 13th amendment. Still, we think that slavery was put to an end when most countries outlawed it in the 20th century. But as a matter of fact, there are more slaves in the contemporary world than it ever had in history. According to the census of the United Nations, there are over 4 million women being sold from one country to another, and there are over 10 million children in brothels around the world. These women and children are forced to become sex slaves without any escape. The victims of sex slavery are mostly women and children from the rural areas of third world country brought to the major cities across the border. This kind of human trafficking has been increasing significantly in recent years, and it has become the 3rd largest transnational crime in the world. Human trafficking is a highly organized crime with its links ranging from the legitimate corporations to terrorist activists. The study from UNICEF proves that a human trafficking is an international industry worth of 10 billion dollars.
Specifically, Southeast Asia is the heart of the human trafficking and sex tourism. Girls from the impoverished rural towns of Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Philippines are sold as low as $200, and some are promised a job offer in the cities but instead they would be locked up in brothels. In fact two third of those girls are sold, kidnapped, coerced by someone they know including relatives and family members. The pimps would tell the girls that they can buy their way out little by little until they are rich, or they would tell the girls that they send money to their family back home. A girl named Chantha from Cambodia who escaped from the brothel tells the reporters that she was offered to be a maid in a house, but instead kept in a brothel and forced to have sex with as many as 15 to 20 men a day.
There are many reasons why these inhumane evil still exist today. Under-education of women is a contributing factor to the forced prostitution. About 80% of women in Cambodia are illiterate and only 5% of the girls ever finish school and the rest only pass through 3rd grade. There is a very few availability of education in the rural areas, and the boys are chosen over girls for the opportunity to go to school. With such limited education and knowledge they are easily deceived. Poverty is another major factor that contributes to the sex slavery. Most of the people in these regions live on a daily basis of hand to mouth. Parents have difficulties providing food for their children, so some parents sell their children for strangers, and husbands sell their wives. Some girls sacrifice themselves in order to add a little more income to their families. Others are offered a job to do in cities to support their families, without knowing what they are getting into.
Young girls are sold into brothels as early as their 6 and 7 years. In the streets of Bangkok there would be 7 year olds dressed in miniskirts ready to be served in exchange of pocket money. Men are seeking for younger partners nowadays, because of the less possibility of getting infected from sexually transmitted diseases. The customers would not hesitate to pay higher price for HIV free virgins. But in the near 5 years or so, those little girls themselves get diseased with HIV or other diseases and left on the streets waiting for their death. Study shows that 70% of those who were child prostitutes are tested HIV positive. Once they are treated that way, it is almost impossible to go back to society and live a normal life. First, they are infected with diseases and second they carry the shame of their situation throughout their entire life. In other words, they become the untouchables of the society after such humiliation.
A British anthropologist Louis Brown spent several years in conducting intensive research on human trafficking in Asia. Along the way, based on his various works, he found out that majority of male customers of sex tourism are Asian men, and two third of all adult Thai men have visited brothels at least once. This shows us the human rights level in that area, and how the society tolerates such inhumane act.
There are laws against sex slavery in these areas, but often the girls are the ones who get arrested while the customers and the pimps remain behind the curtain. Some girls escape and run to police for help; but sex slavery is a highly organized crime that law enforcement agency workers are even involved in most of the cases. The street polices are rewarded with $700- 800 for hiding a case, and in fact they are the major customers of the brothels.
Despite the street polices there are diverse group of participants in the human trafficking business. Government officials, law enforcement agency workers, legitimate travel agencies, lawyers and even gamblers are involved in this business since it is an opportunity to make lots of money. In Indonesia, the brothel complexes’ annual income is estimated from $2 to $3 billion, which is around 1- 2.4% of its GDP. In Thailand, sex tourism produced $22-$27 billion dollars between 1993 to 1995, which was a 14% of the country’s total GDP.
Living conditions in the brothels are terrible, and usually two, three girls share a room that virtually consists of single mattress. One girl from Nepali who was trafficked in a brothel in India said that she was kept in a dark room with no window for 2 years along with two other girls. Often they were beaten and raped by unknown men and they were fed only once a day. And the girls would sometimes talk about how it would be to feel the sunshine again. (Brown p.226)
Speaking of India, India is the lead country that dominates the human trafficking victims. According to a sociology professor in Roehampton University Kevin Bales’ data, India only by itself contains estimated number of 20 million slaves. (Zhang, p.108) Here people are mostly trafficked from Nepal and Bangladesh; recently Nepali girls younger than 10 year old are becoming one of the main targets of sex business in India.
So, Nepal and Bangladesh girls are smuggled into India, Cambodia and Myanmar girls are sold into Thailand. Unfortunately, this human trafficking does not only take place in Southeast Asia. Girls from Eastern Europe are smuggled and sold into the rich metropolises of Europe such as London, Paris, and Berlin etc. In America, the US state department intelligence reported that there are between 45000 and 50000 women and children being trafficked each year. Majority of these girls are from Mexico, Colombia, and other Latin American countries.
If you see this pattern, you might have realized that human trafficking business which has its roots from excessive poverty starts from the rural areas of a country to the cities and from the cities to overseas. Most of the victims of human trafficking are citizens from post-communist countries. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union along with opening of China, the world has been experiencing the largest rate of human migration. The mighty Soviet Union collapsed in a matter of overnight and proved the absolute failure of communist utopia. The government has been creating artificial employments, and the communist regime could not handle it anymore. The factories no longer held 5 workers for a job that actually required one worker; no longer had they needed 5 people to milk one cow. Within a night millions of people found themselves a surplus; jobless and homeless.
China took an inauguration policy shifting all the resources to the central cities leaving the rural citizens behind, while Soviet Union did not know how to respond. The whole Eastern bloc was under a crises during the early 1990`s, with the same reason. The people of Lenin had no idea how to respond to a capitalist system and how to make a living, as they were so used to the ex-government control. In search of jobs and way of living, they migrate from their rural towns and to the cities, but intense competition for jobs in the city would not give them a chance. Many of them try to flee to a different country, hoping it would accept them in the society. Unfortunately, at each step of the migration, those people become more and more vulnerable. Meanwhile, others are organized into networks to take advantage of their vulnerability by exploiting the migrants for their filthy profiteering.
In the contemporary world, globalism not only ensured the free movements of trade and capitals. But at the same time, it increased the mobility of human smuggling and transnational crimes. With increased mobility and networking, the human trafficking is the fastest growing cross-border business, with its executives and advocates ranging from regular pimps to multi-millionaires, and political leaders. From a different perspective, globalization does not bring equal opportunities for people. The difference between a third world and first world countries are very transparent in a global capitalism, and rather than filling the gap between the two bipolar, administrators of political spectrums see the situation silently with tolerance.
Within an overnight, communism collapsed and Western capitalism swept the whole Asia-pacific. Not only it brought new ideology, it brought new value to the whole region. People were considered as rich by the acre of lands they owned, by the number of cattle they raised. But the western capitalism forced its own economic value too quickly, that many countries could not make the adjustment. They were offered the capitalist dreams, but now they are left on the markets. In this new century of “human rights” and “equality”, the people from a vulnerable society are being used as serving agents to the capitalist markets. In fact, the human trafficking business does not end, because the demand for it does not let it stop.
The exploitation and slavery are the central debates against globalization and human rights in a modern world. But as we struggle through this debate, there are new forms of human trafficking that are not yet recognized by law and have not been heard in mass public. After the breakdown from the Soviet Union in Mongolia, and following the collapse of communism in the early 1990’s, the first generation of street children was born in Mongolia. Due to economic crises, many parents abandoned their children and created the first generation of orphanages as well. Those kids live around the main public centers such as mall and restaurants begging for food and money, and in winter they live inside underground holes where the heating pipes go through. However, in the past few years it was vivid for the society that the visibility of those street children was far less that what is used to be.
Unfortunately, it is not because the economy is improving or the street children are being taken care of. Sadly, it has been suspected that those children were sold to Korea for body parts trading. Healthy organs can cost thousand of dollars in a developed country, and there were some serious suspects and probabilities of human trafficking business which they export the street children and sell their hearts, lungs etc for different purposes.
The other shape of human trafficking that is not well known among us is the link between human trafficking and terrorism. Obviously, terrorists do not rely on growing corns and rice to support its terrorist activities. They tap into already established illegal channels to acquire the needs and funds to continue their mission. In many parts of the world, especially in the Balkans and Southeast Asia, money made from human trafficking is used for arms sales and funding of terrorism.
In Eastern Europe, the destruction of social fabric caused by the war, massive migration flows, and the economic collapse of the early 1990’s all contributed together to create fertile ground for dealers of human being and arms sales. There is hardly anyone who has conducted a research on that very link between human trafficking and terrorism. Most of our knowledge on that matter comes from anecdotal stories in the newspaper, or reports. Dejan Anastasijevic is one of the few researchers who write on such topic. He is a free-lance Balkan correspondent for “Time” magazine, and according to him, vast quantities of weapons left over from the World War II are in the hands of dealers, to be exported and used for terrorist activities. Dejan writes that during the war Yugoslavia maintained 4th largest army in Europe, accompanied by the matching industrial complex. Nothing was thrown away destroyed after the war; instead they are stashed in secret warehouses for trade and future use. Albania, Serbia, Kosovo and some in Bosnia and Croatia are well loaded by the remaining army stockpiles as well.
These weapons are exported illegally through the use of already established illegal transnational channels such as human trafficking. These groups might have been engaged to help Saddam Hussein and according to Dejan, “The series of contracts, secretly closed between Saddam's and Milosevic's governments in late 1999, resulted in a flow of weapons and equipment to Baghdad, including armor-piercing missiles, rockets, anti-tank ammunition, tank engines, various explosives, chemical stabilizers, and grenade launchers, as well as missile fuel, MiG aircraft engines, spare parts and expert advice on how to configure air defenses against the US.” The human trafficking and illegal arms sales are deeply intertwined as both of them are embedded in the pervasive culture of corruption.
The people of these regions are sick and tired of being exploited by transnational criminals. While writing this paper, I came to a conclusion that the population explosion that flooded the post communist market and the revolution of economic globalization, accompanied with human violence and corruption are the major factor that created this vulnerable society of millions of people. The sweeping economic globalization forced the rural people for migration and dispossessed them to slavery and exploitation. Now, the new market economy is stretching its arms and taking advantage of this vulnerable society.
It is not the first time happening in the world, as a matter of fact the Industrial Revolution in Europe and America brought a similar social distinction to the population. Now, the newly developing countries are facing the same challenges and repeating the same pattern. While rapid economic growth brings luxury and new technology to some, others are being consumed and sucked into this system to be used as a cheap labor and to be taken advantage of. The only care we can show this social stratification, is to eliminate the extreme poverty. You have read that how people in these regions live on a daily basis of hand to mouth, and how they become vulnerable to trafficking and slavery when they are in desperate need of money. To make matters worse, population rate is high in the third world countries, and rural regions of the world as opposed to the developed countries. The population growth rate of France is 0.5, Germany -0.3, UK 0.27, US 0.88, Italy -0.02 compared to developing nations of Asia such as Cambodia 1.75, Bangladesh 2.02 ; Nepal 2.05 and Philippines 1.73. The surplus population of these vulnerable societies is in fact born outside the system of universal human rights. 1 out of 10 children in these poor regions will become prostitutes, as if they were destined to do that.
Sadly, the world is generating this human rights distinction by tolerating it with ignorance and silence. Amnesty International, Greenpeace and UN have millions of supporters worldwide, but their concentration on fighting against human trafficking is very little compared to their over-all mission. The only main groups working against human trafficking is Free the Slaves in America, and Anti-Slavery International in Britain. ( Bales, Kevin p.258) But together they have fewer than 15 thousand members world-wide. And the rest of their work is trapped by public ignorance.
In America, people are not aware of what is going on outside of the border. It is a common notion to think that the world evolves around them, and other issues are simply treated with ignorance and arrogance. It is written in the first article of universal declaration of human rights, that: “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in the universal Declaration of Human Rights, without distinction of any kind, such as race, creed, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.”
Still, the world itself generates the distinction between people based on their race and economic level. The reason why human trafficking does not get the public awareness as it is suppose to is because, the victims are all from a small countries. Not just human trafficking, terrorism has long been existent in our society, yet it only got mass media attention after 9/11 and America got involved in it. The human trafficking issue that involves millions of women and children in different parts of the world should be a world phenomenon that must be addressed. After all, we need to remember that “The tears of the red, yellow, black, brown and white man are all the same” and start caring for things that are going on across your border as well.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Kundun
Manai Azi Sudlaliin professor neg kinog uchirgui ih yariad unav. Tuvd bolon Dalai Lamiin talaar Amerikchuud tasarhai sain kino hiichihsen chen Hyataduud harin daramtalsaar baigaad kinog ni olon niited haruulahguigeer boycott-lchihoj gene. Unendee "Seven years in Tibet"- iig tootsohgui bol Tuvdiin talaar hiigdsen uur dorvitoi buteel baihgui baih. Beijingiin surduulgees bolj Hyatadad baitugai, Amerikt ch olnii hurteel bolj chadaagui unuu mundag kinog ni uzeh zavshaan ene 7 honogt tohiovoi!!
Getel terniig ni manai Mongol aguu yum bolohooroo ali hediin Undesnii Televizeeree gargachihsan, bi hurtel 8 nasandaa olood uzchihsen "Kundun" gegch kino baiv. Kinonii huvid ch gaihamshigtai, Oscar Worth buteel ! Tuvdud boslogo degdeed, Hawaii-d professor guai mani metiigee Hyatadaar amisgaluulaag baigaa tul bugdii ni holij hutgaad heden yum bichyu gej bodloo.
"Kundun"- iig uzej baihd Dalai Lama ug ni olon oron ruu bichig yavuulaad l tuslamj husdeg. Amerikaas baitugai UN-ees yamar ch hariu uguhgui baisaar baigaad l argaguin erhend Dalai Lama Enetheg ruu durvej, Tuvd Hyatadiin erhend ordog. Hervee ter uyed UN shiidverleh arga hemjee avch Hyatadiin tsergiig barij baisan bol baidal unuudur shal uur baih baisan. Odoonii Tuvdiin boslogoor dahiad l uchnuun lam nar ami uregdej baigaa ch UN shiidverleh arga hemjee avahgui baidliig tuilshruulsaar baigaa. 1994 ond bolson Rwanda-giin genocide iin uyer ch gesen UN arga hemjee avahgui baisaar baigaad uchnuun myangan Tutsi nariig uhuulsen. UN bol delhiin enh taivnii tuluu temtseh #1 baiguullaga baital harin ch uurgee dutuu bieluulj ediin zasag bolon uls turiin neg ih ach holbogdolgui ulsuudiin politict oroltsohoos zailshiij baigaa met.
Tengisiin helsneer bol UN buur neg bureaucratic bourgeoisie type of organization bolson bololtoi. Gehdee nuguu talaas UN non-violent, diplomatic argaar asuudliig shiideh geed tsag avch baigaa ch baij medeh yum. Yuri ni bol Tuvded bolson gashuun tuuh Mongold davtagdahgui gej batalgaa ugui. Hyataduud odoo hurtel "Middle Kingdom" iin uzleesee salaagui, havi oriin gazruudaa uurtuu negtegchih geed dairchihdag tal bii. Manai bagsh " China has a long history, it can play around with" gej bilee. South China sea bolon Taiwan-iig ch ulaan tsaim Hyatadiinh gej zarladag, Solongosiin taliig ch bas manai Koguryo dynasty gej metgej uzsen, Tuvdiig hurtel ezelsniihee daraa "Welcome back to the motherland" gej helj baigaa ni shal durgui hurmeer.Mongoliig ayagui bol Chin dynasty-giin uyes ehelj Hyatadiin neg heseg bsan manai region gej claim hiihed gaihah zuilgui. Yuun Chin dynasty,tuuhchid hurtel Khubilai khaanii Yuan dynastyg Hyatadiinh l gej zaadag shu dee. Tiim bolohoor Mongold urnuud baigaa anti-Chinese movementuud arai l zambaraagaa aldaj, tuilshraad baigaagaas bish bas ch gej hooson hiirhel demii zuil bish. Uug ni bol minii bodloor Tuvdiin tusgaar togtnoliig demjih ni Mongolchuud bidend ashigtai met. Herev Tuvd yag Olympiin umnu ingej duulian tarij baigaad tuurga tusgaar uls bolchihvol, Taiwan bas official sovereignty zarlah gej dairah bolno. Taiwaniig dagaad Yunnan, Xinjian geed l Hyatadiin tum bum minority regionuud bas l Beijingiin esreg eserguutslee ulam idevhjiileh bolno. Dotroosoo hevreg bolson Hyatad guren sulran unahad Uvur Mongold maani ch tusgaar togtnoloo zarlachih zavshaan tohioh yum biluu. (Za za, jinhene zuunii prophecy hiichlee ^_^ )
"Kundun" deerees Buddhism iin tuhai bas negen zuiliig olj harav. Buddhism ni uuruu ih hultsengui shashin buguud, Hyataduud Buddhismiig Mongold gazar avahiig yagaad uuhshuulj baisniig gaihah yumgui. 9 zuiliin aliv amitaniig hairla, nugel hiij amitanii ami taslahiig tseerlesen denduu enerengui ch geh yumuu ene shashiniig Mongold tugseneess hoish Mongoliin huch nileen buursan. Hediigeer Buddiin surgaalid 4 uneniig dagaj, aliv amitaniig hairlan nugel hiihees zailshii gej surgadag ch yag yug unen yug nugel geed bgaag ni olj harahad mash ih tuvugtei. Yuri ni bol denduu gun uhaanii ene shashiniig mani metiin mass-uud uchriig ni olj shutehed ih berhsheeltei. Tegeed l nugel hiisen ch baisan gesen heden lam nart 1000 Tugrug ugch nom unshuulaa l butsaad ariuschihdag. Yuri ni Buddiin shashiniig turiin shashin bolgoson Mongol, Tuvd hoyr niigemdee neg l sain devshilt gargahgui baih shig. Odoonii 14r Dalai Lama nas barahaar, hen ni ch haanaaasaa 15r Dalai Lamiig todruulah yum bilee. Yadaj baihad Mongold Enkhbayar guai Shashin Turiig Hoslon Barigch boloh geed zutgechih bololtoi yumaa.
Manai Azi Sudlaliin professor neg kinog uchirgui ih yariad unav. Tuvd bolon Dalai Lamiin talaar Amerikchuud tasarhai sain kino hiichihsen chen Hyataduud harin daramtalsaar baigaad kinog ni olon niited haruulahguigeer boycott-lchihoj gene. Unendee "Seven years in Tibet"- iig tootsohgui bol Tuvdiin talaar hiigdsen uur dorvitoi buteel baihgui baih. Beijingiin surduulgees bolj Hyatadad baitugai, Amerikt ch olnii hurteel bolj chadaagui unuu mundag kinog ni uzeh zavshaan ene 7 honogt tohiovoi!!
Getel terniig ni manai Mongol aguu yum bolohooroo ali hediin Undesnii Televizeeree gargachihsan, bi hurtel 8 nasandaa olood uzchihsen "Kundun" gegch kino baiv. Kinonii huvid ch gaihamshigtai, Oscar Worth buteel ! Tuvdud boslogo degdeed, Hawaii-d professor guai mani metiigee Hyatadaar amisgaluulaag baigaa tul bugdii ni holij hutgaad heden yum bichyu gej bodloo.
"Kundun"- iig uzej baihd Dalai Lama ug ni olon oron ruu bichig yavuulaad l tuslamj husdeg. Amerikaas baitugai UN-ees yamar ch hariu uguhgui baisaar baigaad l argaguin erhend Dalai Lama Enetheg ruu durvej, Tuvd Hyatadiin erhend ordog. Hervee ter uyed UN shiidverleh arga hemjee avch Hyatadiin tsergiig barij baisan bol baidal unuudur shal uur baih baisan. Odoonii Tuvdiin boslogoor dahiad l uchnuun lam nar ami uregdej baigaa ch UN shiidverleh arga hemjee avahgui baidliig tuilshruulsaar baigaa. 1994 ond bolson Rwanda-giin genocide iin uyer ch gesen UN arga hemjee avahgui baisaar baigaad uchnuun myangan Tutsi nariig uhuulsen. UN bol delhiin enh taivnii tuluu temtseh #1 baiguullaga baital harin ch uurgee dutuu bieluulj ediin zasag bolon uls turiin neg ih ach holbogdolgui ulsuudiin politict oroltsohoos zailshiij baigaa met.
Tengisiin helsneer bol UN buur neg bureaucratic bourgeoisie type of organization bolson bololtoi. Gehdee nuguu talaas UN non-violent, diplomatic argaar asuudliig shiideh geed tsag avch baigaa ch baij medeh yum. Yuri ni bol Tuvded bolson gashuun tuuh Mongold davtagdahgui gej batalgaa ugui. Hyataduud odoo hurtel "Middle Kingdom" iin uzleesee salaagui, havi oriin gazruudaa uurtuu negtegchih geed dairchihdag tal bii. Manai bagsh " China has a long history, it can play around with" gej bilee. South China sea bolon Taiwan-iig ch ulaan tsaim Hyatadiinh gej zarladag, Solongosiin taliig ch bas manai Koguryo dynasty gej metgej uzsen, Tuvdiig hurtel ezelsniihee daraa "Welcome back to the motherland" gej helj baigaa ni shal durgui hurmeer.Mongoliig ayagui bol Chin dynasty-giin uyes ehelj Hyatadiin neg heseg bsan manai region gej claim hiihed gaihah zuilgui. Yuun Chin dynasty,tuuhchid hurtel Khubilai khaanii Yuan dynastyg Hyatadiinh l gej zaadag shu dee. Tiim bolohoor Mongold urnuud baigaa anti-Chinese movementuud arai l zambaraagaa aldaj, tuilshraad baigaagaas bish bas ch gej hooson hiirhel demii zuil bish. Uug ni bol minii bodloor Tuvdiin tusgaar togtnoliig demjih ni Mongolchuud bidend ashigtai met. Herev Tuvd yag Olympiin umnu ingej duulian tarij baigaad tuurga tusgaar uls bolchihvol, Taiwan bas official sovereignty zarlah gej dairah bolno. Taiwaniig dagaad Yunnan, Xinjian geed l Hyatadiin tum bum minority regionuud bas l Beijingiin esreg eserguutslee ulam idevhjiileh bolno. Dotroosoo hevreg bolson Hyatad guren sulran unahad Uvur Mongold maani ch tusgaar togtnoloo zarlachih zavshaan tohioh yum biluu. (Za za, jinhene zuunii prophecy hiichlee ^_^ )
"Kundun" deerees Buddhism iin tuhai bas negen zuiliig olj harav. Buddhism ni uuruu ih hultsengui shashin buguud, Hyataduud Buddhismiig Mongold gazar avahiig yagaad uuhshuulj baisniig gaihah yumgui. 9 zuiliin aliv amitaniig hairla, nugel hiij amitanii ami taslahiig tseerlesen denduu enerengui ch geh yumuu ene shashiniig Mongold tugseneess hoish Mongoliin huch nileen buursan. Hediigeer Buddiin surgaalid 4 uneniig dagaj, aliv amitaniig hairlan nugel hiihees zailshii gej surgadag ch yag yug unen yug nugel geed bgaag ni olj harahad mash ih tuvugtei. Yuri ni bol denduu gun uhaanii ene shashiniig mani metiin mass-uud uchriig ni olj shutehed ih berhsheeltei. Tegeed l nugel hiisen ch baisan gesen heden lam nart 1000 Tugrug ugch nom unshuulaa l butsaad ariuschihdag. Yuri ni Buddiin shashiniig turiin shashin bolgoson Mongol, Tuvd hoyr niigemdee neg l sain devshilt gargahgui baih shig. Odoonii 14r Dalai Lama nas barahaar, hen ni ch haanaaasaa 15r Dalai Lamiig todruulah yum bilee. Yadaj baihad Mongold Enkhbayar guai Shashin Turiig Hoslon Barigch boloh geed zutgechih bololtoi yumaa.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
IMDB: Against the backdrop of a magnificent but harsh natural landscape, a Japanese photojournalist encounters puujee, a young girl who tames wild horses on the Mongolian plains.
Movie comment:
This incredible real life drama is sure to win awards and your heart without a doubt. Please don't miss this incredible real life story of Puujee and her family. I met the director of this incredible film and he is as humble as he is talented. The camera captures real life emotion that you rarely can expect from the big dogs these days. I truly hope this becomes a favorite as it shows, struggle, culture, real life event, pain, laughter, friendship and love so beautifully. It also tackles stories many of us couldn't even imagine. Mongolia gets your attention with this film and captures a spirit of the people that is truly gorgeous. I hope you enjoy this film as much as I did. It will remain in my heart.
Uneheer uruvdmuur kino, made me cry several times ;(
Puujee (Part I)
Puujee ( Part II)
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