150 Arunachal kids trafficked in 4 years
Mid-Day.com, Sunday March 21, 2010, Itanagar
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Over the last four years, 150 children from Arunachal Pradesh have been trafficked to Phuntsok Choeling monastery in Kathmandu with the promise of a better education. As recently as last month, six of the 150 children have been reported missing from the monastery, located in Swayambhu.
The children were reported to have gone missing after one of them telephoned their parents in Arunachal, in the first week of February 2010, complaining about the cruel treatment meted out to them at the monastery.