[Stop-traffic] News/Bangladesh: Stolen, smuggled and sold: the frightened boys forced to become camel

[Melanie Orhant]

Stolen, smuggled and sold: the frightened boys forced to become camel
jockeys in a foreign land
By Phil Reeves
The Independent (UK), October 29, 2003
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=458312

Excerpt:
For one so small, Amir Hossein Rubel knows far more than any child
should about the world. He knows about loneliness, hunger, extreme
danger and fear. Above all, he knows about betrayal. He, and scores
of other little boys like him, have been bought and soldfor sport.