Celebrating Freedom: Justice Finally Achieved for Victims of Human Trafficking in American-Samoa Garment Factory Case-A Firsthand, Behind-the-Scenes Report on What Happened in American Samoa to 300 Women Enslaved by Kil Soo Lee and the Vietnamese Government, and the People Who Helped Bring Them Justice

As Americans everywhere celebrate their freedom and independence this Fourth of July, I have been reflecting on a national story I filed four years ago in February 2001 that helped bring freedom and justice to women from Vietnam then, and in 2005 — women, who at the time knew nothing of American values, beliefs or laws, and certainly did not know about freedom.

In January 2001, I got calls from two people I

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