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| Baluchis on trial in Iran for white slavery... |
| 2002-11-22 |
| This just in from our ace reporter, D.J. Wu... A group of Afghan tribesmen have gone on trial in Iran on charges of luring scores of destitute young girls to work as sex slaves in Pakistan, a judicial source said Thursday. The senior judicial source told AFP by telephone from Mashhad that the gang has been charged with seeking out poor Iranian families around the holiest city and offering to marry young girls. The girls, some as young as 12, were then whisked away from Iran's northeast province of Khorasan province, via Afghanistan, to work in Pakistan. Apparently, this is what Baluchis in Iran do for a living... "We have managed to arrest 50 out of 200 people" believed to be a part of the gang, said the source from Mashhad's judiciary. The 50 were mainly members of an Afghan Baluch tribe living as refugees in Iran, but included some Iranian female accomplices, he said. Twenty of the smuggled girls have already been returned to Iran "in a state of mental and physical trauma", investigators said. I'll bet they are... But they believe up to 250 girls aged between 12 and 20 may have been lured by the gang. "In close collaboration with Interpol, Iranian police are doing their best to bring all the girls back," the judicial source said. He said the trial of those already arrested and charged, which began on Wednesday, would last from a week to 10 days. "The harshest penalty is awaiting them," the judicial source said. Usually I don't agree with the Iranians' penchant for neck-stretching, but in this case — Get a rope! Major Pakistani cities such as Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar and Islamabad are home to scores of hidden brothels, and foreign girls — especially Afghans and Iranians — are highly sought after by well-off clients. Perhaps if girls as young as 12 weren't allowed to "marry" they wouldn't be quite so susceptible to this sort of thing. And next time an Islamist starts bitching about the depravity of the West, think of the 12-year-old working in a whorehouse in Lahore, courtesy of devout Muslims... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 "next time an Islamist starts bitching about the depravity of the West, think of the 12-year-old working in a whorehouse in Lahore, courtesy of devout Muslims" I TOTALLY agree - don't apologize for crusades centuries ago - compare today! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2002-11-22 20:27:47 |