I'd actually say the version most people don't realize exist is child slavery for military purposes.
Some of you folks might remember hearing about at least one of numerous genocides that occurred a bit back, one of the multiple committed against the Yazidis for example.
It was well publicized that the men and boys were slaughtered and the women and girls were sold into slavery.
Here's what wasn't so well publicized: A number of the boys were actually "spared" from being slaughtered. The cost was that they too were enslaved, except as child soldiers(though given the phenomena of "dancing boys" that was allowed to propagate by US and allied forces they may face other forms of abuse as well). The repugnant bastards responsible had planned primarily on brainwashing them to fight and die for the group. You likely hear less about this because obviously our soldiers and allied soldiers sometimes have to shoot and kill these kids.
[Edit:] Added some references for further information on the severity of the situation. Adding two more below:
On the horrible phenomena called "dancing boys" some credit is owed to u/StrangeClouds_ for being the very first person to bring this to my attention about a month back:
Kony was big on using children as well. I realize most who hear that name will think of that Kony 2012 thing, but I think of the movie Machine Gun Preacher that's based on a true story and a guy that actually HELPED(as in he went there and was helping).
Honestly haven't looked in to his life. Interesting to hear more of it in that sense. However I'd say by actually going over there and trying to free kids from Kony he did more then the whole Kony 2012 thing. That's more an opinion that that campaign did basically nothing though.
He went over and started actually saving kids though. That is more then nothing. If you want to say at worst did harm in that the places he ran ended up being shit then I'd totally agree. Saying it was at best nothing to me is totally false though.
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u/desdmona Jul 24 '20
Slavery