More than 100 children have been kidnapped from their homes in Chad. "Whites came and said they would enroll us in school," a 10 years old boy explains. "They came to talk with our father and he allowed us to go with them. They said they would train us and that when we are grown up we would get a vehicle." The children were convinced to get into the cars with promises and sweets. The charity behind it all is called Zoe's Ark. It is said that this was a plot to kidnap children from Chad and Sudan and sell them for adoption in France. Most of the children are between the ages of three and five so they are very upset and confused about the controversey that surrounds them.
For a parent to be promised that their children will be given a future full of opportunity, what parent would pass that down? Now the one hundred plus children are being held in a sleepy day-care center in Abeche called Baken Assalam. Some are to young to speak or correctly identify their pwn parents. How are they ever going to be reunited with their families?
This has not only become a children's rights issue but it has also turned into a racial issue concerning all white people. Whites that are innocently driving around are being hit with stones and other objects. Locals are describing the situation as this: "The local population feels deceived - they see white people driving around in cars pretending to help them and then something like this happens and then of course everybody is looked at in a very difficult way."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7067659.stm
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