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Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One Woman's Fight for Justice
Palgrave Macmillan
January 2011
On Sale: January 4, 2011
256 pages ISBN: 0230108024 EAN: 9780230108028 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir | Non-Fiction
When Nebraska police officer and divorced mother of three
Kathryn Bolkovac saw a recruiting announcement for private
military contractor DynCorp International, she applied and
was hired. Good money, world travel, and the chance to help
rebuild a war-torn country sounded like the perfect job. Bolkovac was shipped out to Bosnia, where DynCorp had been
contracted to support the UN peacekeeping mission. She was
assigned as a human rights investigator, heading the gender
affairs unit. The lack of proper training provided sounded
the first alarm bell, but once she arrived in Sarajevo, she
found out that things were a lot worse. At great risk to her
personal safety, she began to unravel the ugly truth about
officers involved in human trafficking and forced
prostitution and their connections to private mercenary
contractors, the UN, and the U.S. State Department. After
bringing this evidence to light, Bolkovac was demoted, felt
threatened with bodily harm, was fired, and ultimately
forced to flee the country under cover of darkness—bringing
the incriminating documents with her. Thanks to the evidence
she collected, she won a lawsuit against DynCorp, finally
exposing them for what they had done. This is her story and
the story of the women she helped achieve justice for.
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