[Such deja vu like you wouldn't believe]

The Malnosso are the ones that maintain this cage we're in, Bepo. There are a number of things to expect while in the village. [Pause] One, the populace is experimented on constantly. The experiments can be anything. I've so far been stripped of my Devil Fruit abilities, turned into a child, made older, and mentally and physically compelled into participating in humilating acts against my will. The only saving grace to this is that the effects of the experimentation aren't permanent.

Then there's the kidnappings. Sometimes the Malnosso perfer a more one on one approach. So they send in their droids, apprend the person in question by force, and drag them off before anyone else has a chance to respond. The droids are powerful and they're sent in droves. No one yet has sucessfully thwarted a kidnapping. Occassionally the Malnosso will also forceably draft the villagers into fighting their wars for them. No one has a choice either. Everyone who's picked goes. Even non combatants such as children.

And then there's the villagers themselves...