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To: JPR who wrote (12374)	7/10/2002 3:06:38 PM
From: JPR	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12475

Paki Children sold as Camel-Jockeys-a show of brotherhood Camel-jockey racket The foiled attempt to smuggle five children to Dubai where they were to be used as camel jockeys should make it possible for the authorities to smash the wider racket involved in this hideous trade. The Islamabad police have arrested two more culprits besides the woman who posed to be the children's mother and was trying to board a Dubai-bound flight. Given the large number of ill-fated children smuggled out of the country regularly, the racket is well organized. The authorities should pursue the leads provided by the arrested persons to get to the real dons operating behind the scene and heading the trade. The price of each child thus 'sold' to the Arab patrons of the banned camel race - the ban is routinely ignored by the rich organizers - is estimated to be between 6,000 and 8,000 dirhams, the large part of which goes to the operators of the racket. The children mostly come of impoverished families living in southern Punjab many of which have grown used to trading a child for a measly sum. Most children end up with permanent physical or mental damage or both caused by the trauma of the violent race in which the screams and shrieks of the frightened young jockeys make the camels run faster. Indeed, a number of children die in the course of the race, either tied on to the camel's back or falling off the cruising beast. The authorities have done well to tighten immigration controls at all points of exit from the country which will help detect smuggling of camel jockeys out of the country. An all-out drive is what is needed to root out this most reprehensible form of human trafficking.