BOYS SOLD AS SLAVES
The disclosure that slave traffic on the Persian Gulf has not been eradicated was made in the Karachi courts, when several natives of Mekran, a district in Persia, partly in Baluchistan, were charged with kidnapping two Indian boys and selling them into slavery. According’to one of the boys, ho and his companion wore offered saltations at Bombay, but, instead, were forcibly shipped to Mekran, where they were sold as slaves. The boy, Noor Mahomed, said he escaped several times, but was recaptured and was resold in the slave market, and was then forced to work as a pearl diver. Ho was able, after repeated attempts, to communicate with the _ British authorities, who, sent him back to Karachi. The other boy is still missing.
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Evening Star, Issue 19617, 25 July 1927, Page 7
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127BOYS SOLD AS SLAVES Evening Star, Issue 19617, 25 July 1927, Page 7
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