Germany blackemail Mozambique in case of slavery

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Ibraimo says he was one of about 200 fellow young migrants from Angola, Mozambique, Mongolia and Poland. “We were ferried by military lorries, our passports were seized and we were dumped in a compound in East Berlin.”
In a struggle for justice that has been going on for around 30 years, a group of around 150 men and women , known as the "Magermans", represent the 16,000 to 20,000 Mozambicans who were sent to the former East Germany in the early 1980s to work to settle the debit Mozambique had with former GDR, the group swing German flag in march down the main streets of Maputo, every Wednesday .
Cossa, another member of the group says “we've been marching for 29 years to get the salary we were not paid in Germany, it was used to settle the debit our country had with Germany, in a kind of modern slavery. We keep coming because we are sure that one day they will pay," explained Cossa. "In Europe we learnt about peaceful protest. Where else in Africa would you see a demonstration like this?" he asked. Magermans is a local name meaning those who came from Germany.
It is believed that both countries, Germany and Mozambique use the matter to blackmail each other in cooperation to gain advantages, the reason why even Germany never give that relevance.

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