23 Camel Jockey boys brought back home from UAE

Thursday September 02, 2004

KARACHI, September 03 (Online): Twenty three 'camel jockey boys' from the ages between five to seven years, released from the slave labor of one of Middle East country, were brought back home on Thursday.

The Chairman of the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International, Ansar Burney Advocate in a recent visit of UAE got them released from the slave labour, where these children were working as 'Child Camel Jockeys' for at least 18 hours a day in hot temperature of 50 degree and above.

During his weeklong stay in UAE Ansar Burney visited different camel racing tracks and found these innocent children on slave labour in miserable conditions. Later Mr Burney rescued twenty-three of them and on Thursday brought them back to Pakistan.

Those who arrive on Thursday - two of them Shakil (7) and Naeem (5) have injuries due to sodomy with them in the camps.

After arrival the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International sent sixteen children to their homes in far flung areas of Punjab while seven of them took refuge in Trust center.

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