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patrickw
·9년 전·discuss
"Has the US military come to rely on an indentured workforce?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEovFBU7V9Q

"[Iraq and Afghanistan war] foreign workers are known, in military parlance, as 'third-country nationals,' or TCNs. Many of them recount having been robbed of wages, injured without compensation, subjected to sexual assault, and held in conditions resembling indentured servitude by their subcontractor bosses. Previously unreleased contractor memos, hundreds of interviews, and government documents I obtained during a yearlong investigation confirm many of these claims and reveal other grounds for concern. Widespread mistreatment even led to a series of food riots in Pentagon subcontractor camps, some involving more than a thousand workers."

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/06/06/the-invisible-a...