SLAVERY AND HUMAN SACRIFICES.
BURMESE PRACTICES. Australian and, N.Z. Cable Association Reuter's Telegramf*. (Received November 7. 12.40 p.m.) DELHI, November G. The Commissioner’s report dealing with tbo efforts to suppress slavery and human sacrifices in the Putao district on the Burmese border states that slavery has been reduced to small proportions, and those remaining slaves arc either contented or too lazy and opium-sodden to work out their redemption. The practice of human sacrifices is confined to a small area of unadministered territory in the Naga hills, but flourishes there to a serious extent.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17190, 6 November 1923, Page 9 (Supplement)
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