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Verdigris
01-21-2005, 03:18 AM
On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 17:42:59 +0000, Lady Nina wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 12:24:02 +0000, Mick Whittingham
> <Mick@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>>Evidently. There have been reports of foreign children going missing
>>>from hospitals.
>>>
>>300 missing from the hospitals in Ache apparently.
>
> My friend's sister is a purchaser for a large engineering company, she was
> talking to staff at one of the offices she deals with in Indonesia
> yesterday and there are reports in the local papers of multiple rapes and
> disappearances believd in part to be for the spare organ trade. I wonder
> how much is sensationalism by local media to raise sales and how much is
> based in fact.

I caught part of an interview with some Unicef bod on the Beeb last night
and she saud that although there have been reports, there are only two
*verified* cases of children being taken by child traffickers. (I think
that related specifically to Thailand.)

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Bear
01-21-2005, 03:18 AM
In article <pan.2005.01.08.19.06.03.565654@deadspam.com>, Verdigris
says...

> I caught part of an interview with some Unicef bod on the Beeb last night
> and she saud that although there have been reports, there are only two
> *verified* cases of children being taken by child traffickers. (I think
> that related specifically to Thailand.)

Where, IIRC, trafficking in children is not unknown anyway.
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