This is a sad reality.

The dangers and risk, to which the deliberately starved youngsters are subjected to, are obviously enormous.

The weeks’ long conditioning through starving and beating, as you here name, apparently to achieve the required competitive weight is just insane.

What’s more, I have read several reports of how, at the races, if you fall, you are either maimed or left dead. It is that simple.

And in other instances, depending how rough the ride on the Camel’s back is, your genitals gets crushed.

A high-quality racing camel may fetch tens of thousands of dollars, while the slave boy camel jockeys may cost the owner just a few hundred. It’s little wonder then, that the owners are more concerned with the health of their animals.

That for me, just about caps all this madness. And stands out as a most unfortunate prove of the highest disregard of human life, by these elites. To Zufigar’s testimony is augmented by several reports, attesting that if, in the races, the Camel falls and it so happens that both it, that is, the Camel, and the child, are injured, priority of treatment is given to the Camel, before the child.

The Camel, to put it bluntly, is more precious than the child. Ironic.

It has been reported that oil-rich nations such as the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar continue forms of modern day slavery in the form of foreign domestic workers and laborers from impoverished nations across the Muslim world. A common practice is to confiscate the passports of foreign workers and make them 'pay off' debts to their employers.

I can personally attest to that.

They take advantage of the widespread unemployment, rampant in third world countries. Here in my country, sometime early last year, the government had to take a direct intervention, after gruesome reports of mistreatment, sexual and even murder of those who had left to ‘work’ emerged.

Until then, you would find local media adverts running day in and day out, soliciting for both male and female workers to go and work in these countries, particularly Dubai (UAE) and Qatar. And yes, hundreds upon hundreds would, and even now, still, fall victim.

For me the question of Slavery in this Arabs states, is rampant, and it rears its head in several forms, some we might not yet even know. But they are there, and they are several.

EDIT - And moreover, they are equally abusing those sweet humble animals, using them for their own megalomaniac pleasures.

I recently wrote a piece, decrying the mistreatment of animals. And coincidentally, it featured Camels.

https://steemit.com/animals/@mirrors/the-camel-story-i-prefer-poachers-to-you