Fatal Strike: Mercenary Road of Gunfire Ranger
Chapter 43: The Black Industrial Chain (Please Follow)

Chapter 43: Chapter 43: The Black Industrial Chain (Please Follow)

Just like any industry, when the scale grows to a certain extent, more people get involved and start pursuing higher profits, the industry naturally begins to subdivide...

Then, driven by greed, this blood-sucking industry chain lying on the smuggled passengers begins to see branches that are cruel to the extreme.

The global slave trade generates about 150 billion US dollars in trade volume each year, and the targets in this industry are children and women.

Thailand is a disaster area for the slave trade in Southeast Asia!

Those underworld Snakeheads, initially just sold those smuggled passengers who had nowhere to go to engage in heavy labor...

Gradually, they started to subdivide the smuggled passengers - how much a child is worth, how much a woman under 20 is worth, how much someone under 30 is worth...

They would be sold to local brothels or other countries, treated by buyers as tools for profit, or simply as playthings.

Eventually, even organ trading appeared!

Anything prohibited by law will increase its price, that’s an iron law!

Starting with encouraging smuggled passengers to register their body information, selling a kidney to save their own life, it finally developed into a one-stop organ farm of kidnapping and trafficking...

In international waters, there are medical ships; they send their demands to the organ farms, and as long as the matching is successful, the rest is slaughtering, then sending the organs to the international waters...

In the past, those carrying such tragic fates were usually the poor from Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia around Thailand, including some locals from the lower echelons...

Whether a country has hope can be seen by how it protects its lower-class citizens!

The world is especially cruel to the poor who lack the ability to resist...

To truly discern the quality of a nation, it’s useless to look at the rich; looking at the minimum standards of the poor’s lives might actually be the best criterion.

The welfare level in Thailand is very low, but there are no terrifying housing prices; the basic medical care is okay, and there’s no so-called educational rat race...

Under the prevalence of Buddhism, the people here possess an optimism that Mountain Eagle finds incomprehensible, hence the high happiness index.

At least during the two months Mountain Eagle stayed in Bangkok, he felt that the people here were really easy to satisfy and happy.

But the more this is the case, the darker the shadows lurking under the sunshine became increasingly alarming to Mountain Eagle!

Later data showed that human trafficking crimes in Thailand are still spreading, those buyers are no longer satisfied with low-quality populations from Southeast Asia...

Those malnourished and disease-ridden smuggled passengers began to be shunned by the buyers.

Then the Russian gang came, bringing women from Eastern Europe.

The Peninsula gang came, also bringing women from the Peninsula.

The island country gang came, similarly bringing women from the island country.

The local gangs, in order to meet the increasing demand for human trafficking, began to target tourists.

Chinese from Hua Country became their target!

There’s a particularly frustrating logic here; that is, the Chinese generally have cleaner bodies, whether engaged in prostitution or organ trading, Chinese are very suitable targets.

However, kidnapping Chinese is relatively difficult, possibly due to language barriers; Chinese lack a bit of the adventurous gene...

When they come to Thailand for travel, they generally choose fixed routes, and before 2014, group tours were mainstream.

Coupled with the basic tourist security in Thailand, which is quite strong, this gives the gangs fewer opportunities.

Last year, that is in 2013, the official statistics showed that 7 Chinese who left Thailand through legal procedures were missing.

However, the number of those who went to Thailand through illegal procedures and went missing is unknown.

In the context of Thailand, a hub for human trafficking, this number is actually insignificant.

You should know that Interpol once released a report stating that 50,000 people go missing in Thailand every year...

This number is certainly filled with speculation, but it also fully highlights the rampant extent of human-related crimes in Thailand.

However, the data Mountain Eagle has shows that this year there has been an increase in the number of missing Chinese cases in Thailand, several of which are related to a trading company.

This trading company was the one Mountain Eagle was visiting when Basong attacked.

Basong’s daughter’s disappearance is also related to this company!

After attacking the company’s personnel and conducting interrogations, Basong met Tessa, then revealed his identity willingly, hoping to mobilize the gang with the substantial bounty on him.

At this point, Mountain Eagle realized that Basong might have intentionally run into Tessa and her group to escalate the situation and let more people know about it.

However, Basong was injured by a runaway vehicle when he tried to save a mother and child during his escape, preventing him from getting away.

Mountain Eagle himself is a victim of human trafficking; he detests such crimes fiercely, and this data acted like fuel, igniting his inner fury more and more...

Not until Mountain Eagle turned to the last page did he realize that everything before was just setting the stage for even more blatant crimes still in existence...

A detailed invoice listed transactions between that company and United States contractors stationed at the Pattaya base...

They deceive Thai girls into being sold in Bahrain to lonely American soldiers for prices ranging from 2000 to 6000 US Dollars.

These American soldiers seize their passports, then house them in apartments outside the base, rape them, and force them to prostitute themselves to their comrades to recover costs.

All these are still considered mild; the US Army contractor collaborating with the trading company would purchase suitable girls for about 8000 US Dollars each and send them to Bahrain to set up brothels for profit.

This involves kidnapping!

An army of a nation committing such acts completely exceeds Mountain Eagle’s comprehension!

It’s unimaginable!

Looking at a photo showing a delicate girl in white standing next to a reserved middle-aged man, both with radiant smiles...

Mountain Eagle picked up the photo, tossed the documents onto the bed, and said to Tessa, "Is this Basong and his daughter?

The Thai Police are indifferent to this type of crime?"

Shirtless, Tessa sat beside Mountain Eagle, looked at the people in the photo, and said, "Most of the cases documented here have been solved, with the largest slavery case being solved by my brother.

However, we have no jurisdiction over the US Army in Bahrain; they didn’t commit the crime on Thai soil.

Some of the information here comes from girls who returned from Bahrain telling their stories...

But just their testimonies are useless, we don’t have tangible evidence, and since crimes took place in Bahrain, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service of the United States won’t cooperate with us."

Mountain Eagle replied with a frown, "Isn’t kidnapping a crime?

This guy purchasing girls at a high price clearly isn’t taking them to Bahrain for a new life!"

Tessa shook her head and said, "The people responsible for the kidnappings are the local gangs; their transactions usually occur within the US military bases, making it impossible for us to catch them."

Mountain Eagle, as an outsider, felt somewhat disheartened and said frowning, "You know there won’t be any results, yet you still want to proceed with the investigation, is there some other inside story here..."

Saying this, Mountain Eagle grabbed the documents and flipped to the last page, "Those girls deceived into being soldiers’ sex slaves in Bahrain, many of them went willingly abroad, you don’t have any way.

The only breakthrough is this contractor named Vilter Jackson, right?

Does this guy have connections with Thailand’s high officials?"

Tessa nodded solemnly, "On the surface, the guy is a contractor, but in reality, he is also helping some Thai tycoons transfer funds and evade taxes.

He has close relationships with some Thai politicians and is also a donor to civil institutions like the National Women’s Council of Thailand and the Thailand Labor Congress.

Do you know what it means when someone like this is involved?"

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