From: bashirm@UCS.ORST.EDU (MO B Dick)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,soc.culture.arabic,soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Advanced Societies... Children And Camel Races.
Date: 7 Apr 92 21:38:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: talon.1992Apr7.213855.11839
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Organization: Oregon State University - Univ. Computing Services

In article <1992Apr6.174339.6631@meaddata.com> udcrusd@meaddata.com (Sylvia D'Cruz) writes:
>In article <1992Apr04.034641.5463@ecst.csuchico.edu>, vivek@ecst.csuchico.edu (Vivek R. Prabhu) writes:
>|> In article <1992Apr3.012627.15144@talon.ucs.orst.edu> bashirm@UCS.ORST.EDU (MO B Dick) writes:
>|> >>
>|> >>Eight adults were arrested when police raided an
>|> >>apartment in South Bombay the night before the plane
>|> >>was to fly.  They were tipped off by an anonymous
>|> >>caller and found the boys, ages 2 to 5, who were
>|> >>believed to be from Bangladesh.
>|> >>
>|> >>The shrieks of children tied to camels will scare the
>|> >>animals making them run faster.
>|> >>
>|> >Give me a break..is this for real..camel races..children tied to them..
>|> >get a life ..man.
>|> >>
>|> 
>|> FYI, this is very much real, and is an abominable practice still followed
>|> in the medieval type of regimes which the Arabs have.
>|> 
>|> Regards,
>|> Vivek.
>|> 
>|> -- 
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>                            Copyright 1992 Reuters
>                           The Reuter Library Report
>
>                        March 27, 1992, Friday, BC cycle
>
>INDIAN POLICE RESCUE 25 BANGLADESHI BOYS
>
>BOMBAY, India, March 27
>
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   Indian police have rescued 25 Bangladeshi boys aged between two and five they
>suspect might have been on their way to the Middle East to be used as  camel
>jockeys, a senior officer said on Friday.
>
>   Police found the boys on Wednesday during a raid on a fourth-floor flat in
>the port of Bombay where they had been kept for two weeks, said Senior Inspector
>Dada Saheb Sankpal.
>
>   Twelve people -- six men and six women -- have been arrested, including a
>Bangladeshi couple believed to have masterminded the operation, he said.
>
>   The  children,  who are being cared for in a Bombay foster home, appeared in
>good health and spirits but needed a bath, Sankpal said.
>
>   During the raid, police detained Rajesh Kochrekar who told them he was
>running a creche.
>
>   One of the older boys said he had been told he was going to a Middle Eastern
>country.
>
>   Police said they were investigating the possibility the boys were being sent
>there to ride in  camel  races.
>
>   Investigators said there had been reports of small boys being taken to the
>Middle East from the subcontinent for races in which the jockey was  tied  to
>the back of a  camel,  which was then slapped to make it run. The lighter the
>child the faster the animal could go.
>
>   The boys had probably been kidnapped in Bangladesh or sold by their parents,
>police said.
>============================================================================
>Sylvia D. D'Cruz                                
>============================================================================

Sylvia was kind enough to post the original article, as a proof of the 
incident everyone is talking about.
well, the incident might have occured, it doesn 't mean that it happened for
those specific reasons.
Ok, there are camel races in the Gulf, and usually the jockeys are young
boys since they are lighter on the camels's back/
nobody said that they are stolen children form some other country just for
that purspose. 
I have been around the ME and if there were such a thing I would have known.
I am not ignorant of the facts (as some fellow netters have accused me)
and the idea that young boys are sold as slaves for a sport like that
is disgusting..The shieks are not walking angels and I know a few stories
about them that are not exactly very nice..
this bashing at Arabs is a the act of intillegent people..it is not 
justifiable ..and guys..RELAX