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Camel race — brutal ordeal for South Asian boys
ISLAMABAD Sept 22: Rich Arab Sheikhs enjoy nothing more than a camel race. But for thousands of little boys from South Asia, the sport is a brutal ordeal, reports IPS.
Boys as young as three are smuggled Io the Gulf from Pakistan, India and Bangladesh by agents who promise their destitute parents that the children will be employed as house
However most of them end up as camel jockeys at the hugely popular races tn the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
The boys are strapped on to camels and lashed - their screams and tears are believed to spur the frightened animals to run faster and win laurels in the traditional sport
A report compiled by the Defence of Children International Pakistan fDCIP) reveals an estimated 19.000 children were spirited to the UAE for camel racing In three years
The report sparked off an uproar recently in the Pakistani Senate Agitated members accused the government In Islamabad of turning a blind eye because It did not want to risk of lending the oil-rich states
Though Interior Minuter Shujaat Hussain has promised to hold an Inquiry, nothing more has been heard even two months later
Winter is the season for camel racing in the UAE. However, the hunt for riders begins much earlier. Reports of children being whisked away for racing generally appear In south Asian newspapers in the summer
In late August, the Telegraph, an Indian Dally, published a story from Calcutta about nine Bangladeshi children who arc languishing in a remand home after they were rescued from child traffickers smuggling them to the Gulf for camel racing.
The children between four and seven years are Imprisoned behind barred gates as the wheels of the official machinery miuu slowly to clear legal formalities for their repatriation
According to the DCIP report, the recruit lnX agents take the children away promising parents that they will be paid up to 250 dollars as monthly wages. Many of the parents never know what their children are actually doing In the Emirates
And in case, a child dies, the parents art-paid to keep quiet. In one case, an agent was Kid almost 8.000 dollars as compensation, e parents only received half the amount.
There was consternation in Pakistan In 1987 when the body of an eight -year -old boy who died In a camel race was brought back for burial. Zafar Uqbal was sent to Abu Dhabi with his elder brother as a domestic servant He was reportedly kilted when he fell off a camel dur Ing a race, and was crushed under Its fret
Following pub he protestk in Pakistan’s big cities the Karachi baaed women s action fo rum was among those moat active - the UAE banned children under IO and those physically unlit from being recruited as camel jockeys.
The authorities threatened those breaching the ban with severe punishment. But human rights ar Ovists say nothing haa changed.
Not one Pakistani child below 10 has been repatriated since the new rules were put Into effect Actlvtots com lude that the children are still riding In camel races
The Pakistani government haa been playing
down the controversial Issue The UAE is one of the country's biggest donors in the Gulf. In addition, tens of thousands of Pakistanis are guest workers in the Gulf States, sending home the equivalent of millions of rupees in foreign exchange
Economic considerations have even forced I*akistan to allow rich Arab Sheikhs to hunt threatened species of birds and animals In protected forests. Observers say. the Sheikhs enjoy a privileged statue and are above the country's laws
However, the insensitivity of the practice of recruiting camel jockeys from poor homes in South Asia haa been exposed relentlessly by the press in the region.
Urging the United Nation Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and Amnesty International to intervene. they say the exploitation of young children la the worst kind of human rights violation
But their protests have fallen on deaf cars. The region s governments guided only by economic motives refuse to offend generous and powerful donors.