BANGLADESH1102 by a Psychiatrist's view
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Beggar mafia groups in Dhaka and elsewhere in Bangladesh have abducted, mutilated, and forced children and adults into begging. These gangs control an estimated 30,000 beggars in Dhaka alone and have reportedly made millionaires of their leaders. another gem: Three Indian doctors caught on camera apparently agreeing to amputate the healthy limbs of beggars are to be questioned by the Indian Medical Council, Secretly filmed footage taken by the CNN-IBN news channel and broadcast on Saturday showed one of the doctors asking for 10,000 rupees (about $215) to amputate a lower leg, leaving a stump that may draw sympathy—and a few rupees—from passersby. He then suggests chopping off three fingers from the man’s left hand. The doctor, from Ghaziabad in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and a satellite town of the capital, New Delhi, explains how he can stitch up blood vessels in a healthy limb, causing it to blacken with gangrene over a few days. A prospective beggar can be booked into the doctor’s claiming to have had an accident, and then have the amputation carried out without raising eyebrows, he explains. “Believe me if there are two beggars in front of you and one of them is lame, you will give the money to the lame beggar,” the station recorded him as saying in Hindi. Khilkhet Dhaka Photography’s new conscience linktr.ee/GlennLosack glosack.wixsite.com/tbws
