Camel jockeys
Thousands of Bangladeshi young boys worked as camel jockeys in the UAE, and they have been brought back to the country in recent times. It's nice that our unfortunate children are brought back from the horrifying job that they're cruelly assigned to. One wonders, how come this sort of barbaric amusement exists in the twenty first century. The dreadful story that the boys related is simply barbaric. The other day while discussing the matter I came to learn a more horrifying fact about it that the cry of the tender aged boys (minor-4-6 aged) makes the camels run faster.
We wonder how many of our boys are still left there in the desert to entertain the insane people there.
There are many culprits in society who conduct the heinous act of human trafficking. We welcome our boys back home and strongly urge the concerned authorities to rehabilitate them in a befitting way so that they can start their lives anew with the privileges of education and other rights that they are entitled to as human beings. The government should look into the matter and ensure that this sort of trafficking is stopped once and for all. It also has to bring the criminals to justice.
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