On Fri, 23 Jun 1995, john rosenthal wrote:
> I don't know what's in the WWW site. But just a slight (actually kind of a
> huge) correction. While it's true that Iqbal Masih at some point visited the
> US and "then" was shot to death -- it's not true that he was murdered *in*
> the US. Unless I'm very mistaken, I believe he was murdered in Pakistan.
>
> John Rosenthal
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The story in the NYT said the poor kid was gunned down while playing in
his village. Riding his bicycle, if I remember right. While we're on the
subject, there was a very good investigative report on slave labor in the
carpet industry in South Asia on one of those TV shows (not 60 minutes
but another like it). It showed a raid on a factory that liberated a
whole lot of kids, gave good background, etc.
Harry
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