Rat People? :|

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You may have read a big news entitled “Rat people forced to beg on Pakistan’s streets“. It was a real shocker to read and, tells of the worst, beyond imaginable, child labour industry. There’s a children’s rights issue you may wish to look into which concerns a very extreme and horrifying form of child labour.

In Pakistan, there are many beggars on the streets but the one’s that will strike you the most are the “rat people”. Now, I’m not going to use that term again because it implies these poor people are sub-human, like animals, and if they’re looked upon this way, people will tend not to treat them as human beings. What low-budget government research in Pakistan has shown is that there could be about 10,000 of these poor kids in Pakistan.

They have been labelled with their ugly name because they have distorted features; rodent-like teeth, large pointy ears, long noses, big eyes, sloping heads, and fingers almost twice as long as the average persons. These beggars all have similar features; indicating whatever has happened to them is a similar situation. They have no distinct gender and cannot reproduce. They are sometimes mute and mostly mentally retarded. They are feared by the local people and so are the most “successful” beggars as superstitious passer-bys hastily shove rupees in their hands so that bad luck doesn’t befall them.

Close by, is the child’s keeper, the man that takes all of the money and places the child out to beg in the forty degree heat. The children have no family and no-one knows where they come from. However, now some shocking suspicions have been voiced about who exactly are these unfortunate children. The reporter says: “I realise I was either witnessing a ghoulish aberration of nature, in the shape of an unfortunate child whose entire mental and physical growth had been distorted by some chromosomal trick, or else I was looking into the face of a human nightmare deliberately created somehow by man for his own profit.”

The article implies that the origin of these beggar children is from the shrine of Shah Daula in a town called Gujrat. The people of Gujrat go to the shrine to ask God for children. When their first baby is born, they willingly give their baby up. The babies are taken and manipulated by some sick, twisted, evil, warped doctor of genetics and his cronies. The skull of a newborn baby is soft and underdeveloped. These people strap metal devices onto the skull of the baby that breaks the soft, bone and tampers with the pituitary gland.

The pituitary gland is a very special gland in the base of the skull. It controls hormones and decides the size, shape and sexual development of a child. If damaged, results like we see in the beggar children of Pakistan can occur. The crimes that people commit against children, causing physical distortion so that they can use kids to make money is just inhumane in the extreme. This is worse than pimps exploiting children in prostitution and it’s hard to believe that people would go to such lengths to make money. If people refused to give rupees to the beggars, the criminals will realise their “industry” has just died and will not deform any more children but what happens to the ones already out there? And I know, if I see a child begging on the street, I would find it very difficult to refuse them money.

Of course, ultimately the best thing would be if the people behind this are investigated, charged and punished but, it seems to me, Pakistan is too wrapped up in military affairs and boasting of building an atomic bomb to be looking after its more vulnerable race. It really is disgusting.

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~ by Jasera on September 15, 2008.