Here is another example of the freedoms you get to experience in Dubai !! The tourists just love to watch these kidnapped, abused children ride the camels ... maybe one will fall off and get trampled, and we can take pictures !! This place is a joke, and anyone who has lived here for any length of time knows it. Enjoy fantasyland soompak !!
Camel jockeys sent home
Sunday, 07 August 2005
The UAE will soon repatriate more than 100 Bangladeshi children who used to work as camel jockeys, a Dhaka-based paper said. A team partly funded by UNICEF left on Friday for the UAE to bring the children back, reported the New Age daily.
Meanwhile, The Telegraph daily of London reported yesterday that another 60 to 100 children are expected to return to Pakistan this coming week. "In total, the UAE has agreed to send back more than 3,000 known child jockeys," said the newspaper.
In July, a group of 86 Pakistani children, who worked as camel jockeys here, returned home. The group was the second batch of camel racers repatriated to their country - the Child Welfare Bureau in Lahore, Pakistan, received 22 children in June. The UAE is the first country in the region to ban the use of underage children as camel jockeys.