Wives and mothers one day, human cows the next /

Women with voluptuous figures and large, ample breasts are being ambushed in their own homes by gangs of men harvesting human breastmilk and selling it for a high price on the black market. The milk is being sold to the UN Human Milk Programme to answer the shortage of breastmilk in wartorn areas, where it is helping to feed orphans and undernourished young soldiers on the front line. Groups of men identify their targets – often young breastfeeding mothers – from tip-offs, carry out surveillance on the women and wait until they are alone in their homes and vulnerable. Then, as these photographs show, they break in and overpower the women in their bedrooms, bathrooms and kitchens. If they are not already in a state of undress, the women are told to to strip and reveal their breasts for examination. Samples of their breastmilk are taken, often by the men breastfeeding from the women. They are photographed for sites such as imagefap, groped roughly, gagged and blindfolded and loaded silently into vehicles for transport to secret milking facilities. Once they are there, they are well-fed but otherwise treated as nothing more than ‘human cows’. Kept in pens, dressed only in light robes, they are milked twice daily on rough metal frames.