HIDEOUS PRACTICES
HUMAN SACRIFICES AND SLAVERY
By Telegraph.—Press association. -COPYRIGHT.
Delhi, March 19. An interesting account has been issued dealing with the Government’s efforts to stamp out slavery and human sacrifices in the Naga Hills of Burma. It is estimated _ that 270 people were recently sold into slavery or kidnapped. A Government survey party arranged to release several, including one or two who were marked for sacrifice.
Investigations show that human sacrifice is much commoner than it was hitherto supposed to be, there never being less than six to ten yearly, and when funds are plentiful between twenty and thirty Indian boys and girls are kidnapped from Assam and slaughtered. The report says that tho only solution of the problem is the, direct administration of the tracts where these hideous practices prevail.^—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 157, 21 March 1923, Page 7
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134HIDEOUS PRACTICES Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 157, 21 March 1923, Page 7
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