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Sometimes we think we have life hard. But there are always others that can have it harder.

http://www.news.lk/news/world/7664-london-police-frees-3-women-under-house-arrest-for-30-years

London Police frees 3 women under house arrest for 30 years

The British daily the Guardian reported today that three women have walked to freedom from a south London house where they were held for 30 years of modern-day slavery ever uncovered in Britain.

The newspaper said that the youngest woman, a 30-year-old British citizen, had had "no contact with the outside world" and was probably born in captivity, possibly within the house in Lambeth.

All three women a 69-year-old from Malaysia, a 57-year-old from Ireland and the British woman were described as "deeply traumatised", and were being looked after by specialists.

The extraordinary story of how the women were rescued from three decades of fear and enslavement within an "ordinary house in an ordinary street" in south London has emerged yesterday after the Metropolitan police's human trafficking unit arrested an unnamed man and woman, both 67, at the same property in Lambeth.

They had been arrested on suspicion of being involved in forced labour and domestic servitude. The Detective Inspector Kevin Hyland, who leads the Met's human trafficking unit has told the Guardian newspaper that what had been uncovered in the home was like nothing the Police had ever experienced before. He has said that in London they have investigated cases where people have been held in servitude or forced labour for up to 10 years, but 30 years is quite extraordinary and not something they have seen before.(niz)

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Glad they received their freedom. Can't stand anyone held against their will in captivity.

“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.” – Coretta Scott King

"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge." -Toni Morrison

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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