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hailing from remote villages ; the young women are 

 either bartered or kept by their captors and added 

 to their households as concubines. No sentiment 

 whatever is displayed for the feelings of those poor 

 souls, who are being shared out as if they were 

 inanimate objects. 



It seems atrocious that such a state of affairs 

 should be allowed to exist at this very day in a 

 territory administered by a so-called civilized, 

 European Government. 



