From: udcrusd@meaddata.com (Sylvia D'Cruz)
Subject: Re: Advanced Societies... Children And Camel Races.
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 17:43:39 GMT
Distribution: na

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.
|> 
|> -- 
|> vivek@cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu (Vivek R. Prabhu),
|> Research Assistant, Department Of Computer Science, 
|> School Of Engineering, Computer Science And Technology,
|> California State University, Chico, California.
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                            Copyright 1992 Reuters
                           The Reuter Library Report

                        March 27, 1992, Friday, BC cycle

INDIAN POLICE RESCUE 25 BANGLADESHI BOYS

BOMBAY, India, March 27

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   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.
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