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OK I'm a sucker This isn't genuine so take this as a warning...

Sorry if you've just sent this to a load of people....

I just got sent this from a friend, the picture should be attached, it could well not be genuine, and usually for all sorts of reasons I wouldn't post something like this but well I'll happily risk being called a sucker on the off chance that this is right.

Anyway if someone does know the kid and this has a happy ending then let me know.


http://mice.fotopic.net/c390523.html


Nebbyland

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Subject: PLEASE SEND THIS TO ALL YOU KNOW.

Oggetto: Nobody knows who this boy belongs to or where he is from.

Please send this to all the people in your address book, someone may
recognise him. Looking for his family.

The boy about 2 years, from Khoa Lak is missing his parents. Nobody
knows what country he comes from. If anybody knows him please
contact us
by phone
076-249400-4 ext. 1336, 1339 or e- mail :
info@phuket-inter-hospital.co.th

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OK I'm a sucker This isn't genuine so take this as a warning...

Sorry if you've just sent this to a load of people....

I just got sent this from a friend, the picture should be attached, it could well not be genuine, and usually for all sorts of reasons I wouldn't post something like this but well I'll happily risk being called a sucker on the off chance that this is right.

Anyway if someone does know the kid and this has a happy ending then let me know.


http://mice.fotopic.net/c390523.html


Nebbyland

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Subject: PLEASE SEND THIS TO ALL YOU KNOW.

Oggetto: Nobody knows who this boy belongs to or where he is from.

Please send this to all the people in your address book, someone may
recognise him. Looking for his family.

The boy about 2 years, from Khoa Lak is missing his parents. Nobody
knows what country he comes from. If anybody knows him please
contact us
by phone
076-249400-4 ext. 1336, 1339 or e- mail :
info@phuket-inter-hospital.co.th

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CNN sez he was reunited with his father. His mother was killed.

That's not the one that when the father turned up to collect him, the child had already been taken away by someone else, and no no-one knows where he is?
Horrible story this one, btw. They think he may have been abducted by slave-traders who took the opportunity that they were allowing Europeans to fly back without passports to take the kid out of the country.
I hope it is the same kid, if he has now been re-united with his father. Cause the other option is pretty terrible. Not just for the child, but also the father who lost his wife and now knows his boy's alive but elsewhere.

That's not the one that when the father turned up to collect him, the child had already been taken away by someone else, and no no-one knows where he is?
Horrible story this one, btw. They think he may have been abducted by slave-traders who took the opportunity that they were allowing Europeans to fly back without passports to take the kid out of the country.
I hope it is the same kid, if he has now been re-united with his father. Cause the other option is pretty terrible. Not just for the child, but also the father who lost his wife and now knows his boy's alive but elsewhere.
The fact that that sort of shit still goes on is reason enough to nuke the world.

That's not the one that when the father turned up to collect him, the child had already been taken away by someone else, and no no-one knows where he is?
Horrible story this one, btw. They think he may have been abducted by slave-traders who took the opportunity that they were allowing Europeans to fly back without passports to take the kid out of the country.
I hope it is the same kid, if he has now been re-united with his father. Cause the other option is pretty terrible. Not just for the child, but also the father who lost his wife and now knows his boy's alive but elsewhere.In the post disaster confusion they only think that the boy taken was the one missing. They're not sure.

It's funny that so many westerners have only seized upon an ongoing issue, following this disaster. Slavery is alive and well people, it was before this disaster and will probably be long after relief efforts are over. It is not some opportunistic oddity, but countless ongoing criminal enterprises.

And I'm not just talking about in the Tsunami effected areas, I'll wager that the country of origin of anyone who replies to this is on the list of nations who have a thriving slave trade.

It's sensationalized fluff like this that angers me with the news media. Whenever I hear (and it's quite often) a story that begins with "The Death Toll of Americans in the Tsunami disaster is now....." I want to scream over the announcer "....Insignificant in the total number of deaths!" We americans are so shallow. 36 americans in the countless thousands of lives lost and thats all we care about.

The fact that that sort of shit still goes on is reason enough to nuke the world.
Saudi Arabia and Egypt first then.

Saudi Arabia and Egypt first then.
Sudan keeps plenty of slaves. Saudi technically outlawed it in the 1980's.

Sudan keeps plenty of slaves. Saudi technically outlawed it in the 1980's.
"technically" they did, and I'm sure if you publicly parade the fact that you are a slave trder/owner they would arrest you. Otherwise I doubt it.

"technically" they did, and I'm sure if you publicly parade the fact that you are a slave trder/owner they would arrest you. Otherwise I doubt it.
Hold on. Have you actually been there? Or are you just assuming?

Hold on. Have you actually been there? Or are you just assuming?
It's a fact that guest workers in Saudi have been known to have their passports taken away by their employers, pay has been witheld, and female ones are often raped. It's not technically slavery, but it happens. Many of these pseudoslaves are Fillipino and Indonesian women who go to Saudi to get high paying jobs as housekeepers.

It's a fact that guest workers in Saudi have been known to have their passports taken away by their employers, pay has been witheld, and female ones are often raped. It's not technically slavery, but it happens. Many of these pseudoslaves are Fillipino and Indonesian women who go to Saudi to get high paying jobs as housekeepers.

Oh. Fair enough then.

This boy was picked up by his uncle in the hospital and is now safe with his father in Sweden.

It's a fact that guest workers in Saudi have been known to have their passports taken away by their employers, pay has been witheld, and female ones are often raped. It's not technically slavery, but it happens. Many of these pseudoslaves are Fillipino and Indonesian women who go to Saudi to get high paying jobs as housekeepers.
kinda like undocumented latino/a housekeepers or farm workers in the us, except that their original lack of documentation allowed the exploitation. or russian prostitutes in western europe... saudis keep the traffic in slaves going but they are hardly alone.

kinda like undocumented latino/a housekeepers or farm workers in the us, except that their original lack of documentation allowed the exploitation. or russian prostitutes in western europe... saudis keep the traffic in slaves going but they are hardly alone.
I never said it was just Saudis. I was only responding to someone who asked about the situation in Saudi. Like I said, this kind of shit makes me want to nuke the world.