Paying off a debt with a daughter.

[NoShangriLa]

It has to be one of the saddest stories that I read this year. Stories like this reassured how lucky I?m to be living in a beautiful city with stable political landscape.

I hope that the people in the linked article get out of their predicament soon and have a chance to enjoy the peace that I?m having here in North America.

Paying off a debt with a daughter

The ban on poppy farming in Afghanistan may hamper the heroin trade but it also leaves farmers in poverty.

he has just agreed to hand over his six-year-old daughter to pay off a debt. She is now engaged to the creditor's son.

In a country without banks, opium is the standard way to get a loan.

You borrow opium and pay back with opium.

Some men spoke about joining the Taleban to make money, they pay their fighters £70 ($140) a month, or the Afghan National Army who pay rather less...

 

[RGN]

wow, talk about a moral issue. What is better, to have them paying debts with female children or producing heroin. Fuck.