Mr. ISMAIL ABU ALI (Day Laborer, Baghdad): (Through translator) If we don't work, then we will starve.

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We could choose to do so, just as a person trapped in a warehouse full of food could choose to starve, but we could never be forced to.

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My mother never forced me to do this job but she told me that there was no other work and if we didn't do it the family would starve.

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