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The two innocent camel jockey brothers, Muhammad Ashraf-7, and Muhammad Akram,-5 who returned Pakistan a few days back from the United Arab Emirates, have been handed over to their mother. They stayed in the UAE for more than two years where they were made to work as Camel Jockeys.
Talking to newsmen, Ashraf said, I had been riding the camels for two years and fell down several times and once sustained a serious injury. Akram said, "Our employer used to beat me up on losing a race. Some time they used children for sex as well. Camel eat very good food but we were not allowed even to taste that food", He said. "We were not allowed to sleep properly and forced to live in an iron tents even in a hot temperatures, some times blood comes out from our mouth and nose but no one to hear our hue and cry", he added. (The Nation 08/2/04)
Posted on 2004-02-25
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