RAIDS GOON
Pakistanis Freed (N .Z .P .A.-Reuter —Copyright) MULTAN (West Pakistan), May 8. Police have smashed two more Nazi-style concentration camps, freeing 130 persons said to have been kidnapped and forced to dig a canal. Yesterday’s raid near Mazaffargarh, 35 miles from Multan, was after raids on seven other slave camps in the Sind area of West Pakistan last week. More than 170 inmates —some of them youths—alleged to have been tortured and threatened with death, were released.
Newspaper reports said many people were kidnapped from various parts of West Pakistan and taken to Mazaffargarh to work on the canal about 20 hours a day without pay and with only one meal. The police have charged five persons, said to be contractors for earthwork projects in the area, with kidnapping and forcing the camp inmates to work under duress.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31364, 9 May 1967, Page 17
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