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Q: How did you come here?
Viviana: I did not want to come here. I just wanted to go to Italy and got cheated by friends. I went through hell. We've been kept by pimps – more girls together in a group and didn't get anything to eat. Another day, we have been driven away again. Hungry, blindfold, from car to car. The pimp said, that if we speak or shout, he will immediately kill and bury us... The they threw us on a boat, like animals. Then they drove us over the Danube. There was water in the boat... Then they brought us to Serbia. We've been running from one owner to another. They treaded us very bad, like they were no humans, like we were only a piece of flesh. A nightmare. We've been intimidated. We didn't know where they bring us and what will happen to us after we arrive. We didn't know if we will survive this and see our families again.
Q: How long did the trip take?
Viviana: It's been just 3, 4 or 5 days. I don't know. I don't want to remember... It just gives me the creeps, when I talk about it, from all the terror, the fear... It was so brutal. They did beat us on our backs. They threw us like inside the boat, we had to lie there, but the water went nearly over our heads. They wanted to make a profit with us, that's so simple. People I do not know, who sold us. This can't be human beings, I can't believe that. They just sold us and raped us all the time.
Q: Who did cheat you?
Viviana: Friends... They told me in Timisoara, I'll be in Italy in two days.
Q: And there was no food?
Viviana: Nearly nothing. No bread, just a little bit cheese and tomatoes, but it had to be enough for all the days. Nothing else. I was so scared. It was so very cold. We had to sleep on the wet ground in a kind of stable. Hidden. Terrible, so terrible. A total psychic shock.
Q: Were there minors?
Viviana: There we minors, 16 or 17, also younger. All cheated. They promised them Greece or Italy but they sold them all as prostitutes. They first realized it on their way. I had more luck than others, who have been beaten and tortured physicaly and mentaly. My friend... We haven't slept for days, didn't eat anything, didn't wash. We have been totally depressed...
Q: ...
Viviana: Just imagine, you come on this boat. They trow you in. You have to lay down or knee down, not allowed to move. Or they throw you into the Danube. And on the other side other catch you, push you into cars... Humans...? No, those have no souls...
Q: Where have you been before you came here?
Viviana: I belonged an Albanian, he sold me here. I had slept on the ground there, with other girls. All on the floor. We did eat on the floor. Only few food, never enough. You have to fight with the others to get something. We have been handeled from house to house like slaves. Terrible. This was somewhere in Macedonia, I don't know exactly where. First I din't even know that it's Macedonia.
Q: How do you live now?
Viviana: Now it's better... Many girls get beaten so much, that they never really heal from that, when they return home one day... Well if they return, they never know it. They get beaten on their head, their faces are swollen and they do other things to them... Oshiraspinarile... When they do not obey... I talked also with other girls, who told me the same...
Q: ...
Viviana: When I talk about this now, I am scared. But now my life is better... I will come home now. With the help of my last boss. He has a heart and he wants to organize my papers... I dream so much, to come home, I hope that so. Deep in my heart... I was so weak when I came here.
source: Inge Bell archive (Radiovision.info)