Open Secrets is a documentary series that looks at just this—secrets lived out in the open, things everyone knows about, but no one will talk about—until that moment when it becomes fully exposed to the world. Each episode visits a different country, looking at a single secret and exploring why the issue remained a secret for years despite existing out in the open.
What has allowed these secrets to fester in the open for so long? For some, the reason is a risk, that blowing the whistle can be deadly. For others, it’s a privilege, that they benefited from the secret staying such for too long.
This series is about the insurmountable control those in the corridors of power have in societies—till someone decides to risk it all to take them head-on.
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Waiting on the expo on the slave trade in Israel using rural Thais to farm 18 hr a day many times worked to death. Or how about the Ukrainian sex trade that uses Thais and other SE Asians, tricking them into forfeiting their visas until they’re able to find a fresh rrcruit to replace them. Or does this not fit Vuce narrative that’s its all these “brown backwards countries” that are the only perpetrators of these things?
American NGO stories.
This is extremely heartbreaking to see. These people just like you and I are treated worse than animals. For the sake of profit.
Patima holds off on her own cancer treatment so others can be saved is a Godsend. It’s selfless people like her who make the real world go round and a better place for everyone.
Thailand has been using people mainly from Myanmar for hard physical labor jobs such as construction and farming. I’ve seen the conditions they work in. No hard hats. No masks when mixing hundreds of kilos of dusty cement. No ear protection against noise. No shields for welding. Wearing slippers while on ricketty bamboo ladders and scaffolding. Using small hammers to break up large rock piles. No gloves for handling rocks.
Sometimes a whole truck load of Myanmar workers are abandoned by the road in the hot sun when the driver decides to escape being caught by police. Often they die in these trucks when the temperature rises to 50 degrees. This is just inhumane.
Now I will think twice about any seafood I eat. Where did it come from? Whose labor went into this? Are they being treated well?
One must walk in the shoes of another to finally understand reality
It’s just poor people who little to no choices in life. Hey Im wat ching this so I can feel better about my life