White Eunuchs for Arabian Harems Today

This is a rather free version, following an article in the Russian electronic magazin "Sobesednik/Discussionist". The original can be read in Russian in: www. sobesednik. ru/yellow/ for August 2000. As a foreign speaker of both English and Russian, please excuse my language mistakes.

Mortimer

KIDNAPPED AND CASTRATED

A serious scandal arose for several days in the capital of the Arabian country Yemen. During a raid of the police against drug dealers in a basement in one of the buildings near the marketplace, a semi-naked youngster was found chained to the wall with manacles, European in appearance. He was frightened to answer the questions of the police officers, but was only trembling and weeping. In the police station after a cup of coffee, the young man came to himself and gave evidence in clumsy Arabian. The name of the 22 years old lad turned out to be Irzhi Shlemek. He was a Slovak citizen and stayed illegally in Yemen for about two years. According to his words he was tricked to enter the country where he was kidnapped and castrated.

With a sickle upon the balls.

The poor Slovak guy did not have a permanent residence in his native country. He sold his apartment and traveled across Europe - spending nights at the railway stations, hitchhiking, even begging sometimes. In France he met an Arabian named Hakim who offered him to work on a construction for a monthly salary of 1000 USD. Irzhi agreed and illegally entered Yemen via Ethiopia. There Hakim led him to two stalwart guys. In the evening the youngster was taken to an unknown place, where more than 20 men with sullen faces were sitting. They explained him that this is a marketplace where the rich Arabs hire workers for the construction of their palaces. An old man with a beard and in rich garments (a sheik) came to him. He started a long dispute with the two guys that brought Shlemek. After half an hour of bargaining, Irzhi was asked to undress and his tall strong body impressed the customer. Finally the old man gave the two "partners" a bunch of banknotes and waved to the young man to follow him. Later it turned out that the Slovak was taken to one of the illegal slave markets in the countryside.

At first Irzhi was settled in a good room in the house for servants. What was prepared for him, he came to know after two days when a guard with a Kalshnikov came accompanied by a silent man with a cup of hot boiling water and knives - the local barber who usually made the castrations. Irzhi started to cry and to struggle, but the guard shot him in the arm. The young man realized that if he did not obey the orders he might be killed.

"I could rely on nobody in the situation, explained the Slovak later in the police station. All what happened later was a nightmare. I was tied down naked on a table. The guard laughed at me that I am going to loose my manhood, but shall benefit from the situation as I am young and strong and shall survive the surgery. After it I shall not be put to hard work like most of the slaves, but shall enter places, where he cannot go to. They tied my testicles tightly with a cord and cut them with a red-hot small knife in the form of a sickle. They called it "The source of chastity". It was so painful! I was crying for so long time, that I lost my voice and could only weep. The guard was only laughing at me, discussing my big balls that were gone and my future career as a white eunuch slave."

They are kidnapping tramps and wanderers

It turned out that the sheik bought Irzhi for 5000 USD especially to use him as a eunuch in his harem of 68 women. This high price was due not only to the fact that the slave was tall young and physically very strong, but also because he was a white European and blondish. To have such a slave and particularly a white eunuch is nowadays very fashionable and a question of prestige in the harems of Arabia and North Africa.

"Most of the young white men that are "working" in the harems are kidnapped and forcefully emasculated like me, explained Shlemek. To hire a white eunuch is practically impossible. The emissaries are silently travelling across Europe trying to recruit young men, promising them much money. Highly prized are the blond men, but the most important is that they are young, tall, strong and in good physical shape. The emissaries are more active in the unstable countries of Central and East Europe, but they work also in Western Europe and in North America. Usually they try to recruit tramps and wanderers - no one will miss them and there will be no risk of trouble.

In the harem, where I was sold, there were also other young white men. One of them was a guy from Moscow - Pavel. He was an Ukrainian and moved in 1991 to Moscow immediately after his military service in the paratroops with two of his friends. As they were strong and handsome, they at once received an offer to work in Nigeria. Thus they were taken illegally in the Yemen and were castrated the same day. All the three of them fetched the highest prices - about 10 000 USD as were castrated before appearing on the auction block. Pavel had information, that this Russian company, recruiting young Russians "to build houses" in Africa is still operating in Moscow. You see, what are they actually doing? They say that some of the captive Russian soldiers in Chechnya were also brought to Arabia by the slavedealers to be castrated and serve as eunuchs. I have heard about many of them, but I saw no one."

It is also fashionable for the rich Muslims to have white girls from France and Sweden, but usually they have legal marriage contacts - the rich do not want to have alcoholics and whores. After several years they get divorced and come back home with a good sum of money. The situation of the male slaves is far harder. Even if they are used for physical labour, they are usually castrated, but if they have to work in the household, and practically all of the white male slaves work there, castration is considered a necessity. On the secret slave markets every month there appeared up to 5000 slaves - male and female. The price of an adult male is between 500 and 10 000 USD. The white male slaves are usually several tens per month. There is no road back for anybody of them.

Enslaved through a Tour Operator

Irzhi lived monotonously in the harem. His work was not a heavy one and he was well fed. Together with the other eunuchs he bathed the women, combed their hair, cleaned the harem rooms, and even made small repairs of broken things. The uncastrated slaves were not allowed to cross the doors of the harem. For such things they might be punished with castration or even with death. The women of the sheik were used to the services of the eunuchs and were not at all bothered by the presence of the new white eunuch. He himself was so shocked by his brutal emasculation that did not experience any sexual desires towards them. At the beginning he had been crying for the whole nights.

His master had many guests and he always boasted with his white slaves, serving as eunuchs. They had to serve the guests and that was the worst part of their slavery as were often objects of sexual approaches and mocking. Many of the guests tried to buy Shlemek for their own purposes, but his master never wanted to sell him. To have a young white eunuch likes Irzhi, tall, strong and most of all blondish was considered by him a question of social position. Despite of all that, one day his master simply gave the handsome eunuch as a present to one of the religious leaders in the country. But it happened that the same day his new master went on a pilgrimage in Mecca. So Irzhi was taken to the basement near the marketplace and was manacled to the wall and well guarded for the arrival of his new master who would claim his property. There the police found him.

"I shall never go back to Europe, spoke Shlemek weeping. Most probably I shall try to find a job as a harem guard in Egypt or in Libya. There I shall get good money and shall drink all of them in attempt to forget all that nightmare."

By the way the Russian parliament issued a statement, recommending all Russian citizens not to travel to Yemen. It stated that tourists could easily be subjected to kidnapping by the Bedouin tribes for ransom or to be sold as slaves. Despite of this, some Russian tour operators still advertise "a trip to Yemen, the pearl of the East". And it is quite possible that at least some of them are a coverage for organizations of slavedealers, recruiting for many years "fresh" and young white eunuchs for the harems of Arabia.

L. Shahanova.