Slave suicides in the hands of the Brotherhood of Dosh

Date: 280809
Planet: Lok
Region: New Dosha

Story: (Written by the Galactic News Agency, Ramona doesn't write IC).

Slavery of sentients caused another tragedy last night when a young twi'lek's life was ended under cruel circumstances. Kaymi, sister to Mischi-Mischi, a slave of Aak the toydarian, had been seeking her sister after their mother had died. During her search she got captured and thrown in a cage in New Doros.

Wounded and suffering she nevertheless followed Aak to Rori, where she was bound and beaten. At least she managed to see her sister, but she was soon picked up for transport to New Dosha on Lok.

There, in the hands of the Brotherhood of Dosh, she was abused and tortured for two days until she managed to get her hands on a knife. She stabbed herself while bound to a chair, mortally wounding herself in the process. Mischi-Mischi rushed to New Dosha from Lady Chy'na's palace and arrived in time to share the last moments of her sister, chanting prayers to the goddess Kikaleki.

Though not even in death did the poor slave find dignity and respect. Instead of getting a funeral her body was taken away by Scirzzo, and allegedly cut to pieces and thrown into the heating furnaces of the town. Her ashes then were sold to her grieving sister, but even this was combined with more insults and scorn: She was told her sister's passing was no more than an animal's death, since as a warmblood she would be refused by the Scorekeeper.

Mischi-Mischi suffered further when she, extremely distraught by those tragic events, did not earn as much money as usual for her master Aak and earned the toydarian's displeasure.

This is the second suicide of a slave in less than a month, and just a glimpse in the horrors the practise of slavery brings with it each day.