India: Navy rescues 13 boys 'sold' to Dublarchar fish traders

[Robbien]

Source: Daily Star

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Badly sunburnt and injured, the youths aged between 14 and 22 told of dreadful experiences on the remote island in the Bay as their "masters", rich fish traders, beat them mercilessly and compelled them to do hard risky jobs. They said they had to work for at least 16 hours a day.

If they ever denied to work or carry out orders of their masters, even if because of illness, they were beaten up mercilessly and forced to stand in the water for the whole night, the boys said.

The boys were rescued after on tip-off a person named Habibur Rahman from Narayanganj went to Dublarchar in search of his younger brother Mohammad Shamsul Haque, 20, who had been missing for around 45 days.

Habib went to the island, traced his brother and rescued him along with others with the help of Bangladesh Navy.

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UNO Syed Mehedi Hasan told The Daily Star that so far 192 boys have been rescued from islands adjacent to the Sundarbans. There are at least 2,000 youths being forced to work in the region, the UNO said, adding that the government needs to conduct operations in the region to rescue them.


Read more: http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=12972

[ohio2007]

1. Which goverments in that part of the world still promote slavery ?

And why is it up to the Indian navy to free the slaves ?

[Anarcho-Socialist]

2. It was the Bangladeshi Navy, not the Indian Navy

[shireen]

3. Bangladesh navy helped with the rescue, not India

Dublarchar is Bangladesh territory. (Portions of the Sundarbans is Bangladeshi, other part is India.)