Michael Kensington, Liaison to the Commonwealth after hearing from the Heyrans. "Right," Mr. Kensington sighed, "you know what else is tough and brutal? Slavery. You know who suffers from slavery? The People of Tamora. You know who causes them to suffer from slavery? The Tamoran regime. You see where I'm going with this, Ambassador Maxime? This is the part where I should be seeing you start to nod, by the way."
"We cannot continue to handle the Tamoran regime with delicate gloves as tens of millions of Tamorans live, right now, in forced servitude and slavery. Citing culture and tradition in a matter which involves human beings being treated in this manner is, frankly, reprehensible. We've seen sanctions implemented upon the Tamoran regime, we've seen projects aimed to target businesses which employ slave labour, and those have not been enough. If you wish to see slavery consigned to the pages of history what is necessary is a maximum pressure strategy which makes the cost of maintaining the institution of slavery so great upon the Tamoran economy and national pride that any
benefits the Tamoran regime gains from its maintenance aren't able to overcome the costs. We're not here to concern ourselves with the sensibilities of the regime, which is the
true source of the misery Tamorans in binds feel on a daily basis, but to present solutions which see the regime held to task for maintaining this brutal system and consigning generations of Tamorans to an existence, not a life, of forced servitude."
"Fallacies of talking the regime to abandon slavery are just that, fallacies. Hard and determined action are demanded for a situation which, quite frankly, should have been addressed quite some time ago. There are no gentle words nor coddling for a nation who holds the belief that you can own another person. Just as one would not negotiate with terrorists, I do not feel that one should negotiate with slavers: both are borne of a similar vein, after all: human suffering in the pursuit of their ambitions and agenda above all else."