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India-Pakistan
LHC frees 38 bonded labourers
2003-12-06
"Bonded laborers"? You mean, like slaves?
The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday recovered and released 38 bonded labourers including 22 children after they were held captives by a brick kiln owner. LHC judge Syed Sakhi Hussain Bukhari promised petitioner Muhammad Abbas that he could seek Kasur district police officer’s help against brick kiln owner Haji Yousaf. Earlier, the court bailiff produced all the detainees in the court. The freed included Muhammad Sultan, Muhammad Sooba, Nizam Din, Muhammad Ramzan, Muhammad Hussain, Shafi Muhammad, Inayat Ali, Ramzan Ali, Zainab Bibi, Sughran, Zahida, Manzoor and Sharifan Bibi.
Slaves... Kids... Forced to make bricks... Amazing.
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#1  Shouldn't be big uptick on the surprise meter. Antebellum Southerners comparatively had to spend a lot of $ to buy Blacks for their houses and fields. Slavery is actually much more economically rational now. Still a prime source of stoop labor in Asia, and young female bodies for brothels there and elsewhere. Check out the September National Geographic.
Posted by: Glenn (not Reynolds)   2003-12-6 1:26:10 AM  

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