Film exposing child slavery airs March 26

Last year, after an undercover investigation, Indian police raided Menim Gupta’s carpet-making factory in Varanasi, India, the center of the Asian nation’s “carpet belt.” What they found there was appalling.

As documented in a new film, The Carpet Slaves: Stolen Children of India, 18 children – some as young as age six – were held in literal slavery behind locked doors and windowless walls, forced to tend carpet looms for 20 hours a day, unpaid, and having been kidnapped from their parents and home villages.

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The Carpet Slaves: Stolen Children of India will air Monday, March 26, at 7 p.m. EST on Cinemax.

“As soon as we got up in the morning, we had to start making carpets,” says 11-year-old Huro, one of the freed children, through a translator. “What time? Five o’clock in the morning.” Children trying to escape were beaten with large rods. “Did you ever receive any money for your work?” filmmakers asked. “No.”

And while Gupta’s factory was raided and Huro and the others were freed, Gupta was not arrested. And there are thousands of similar slave labor factories all over northern India and in other rug-exporting nations such as Nepal and Pakistan.

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The film details one father, Chichai, and his yearning for Huro, kidnapped at age six to work in the carpet factory. Huro’s cousin was also among the 18 kidnapped children who were freed.

Those children and other kidnapped children are among an estimated 54,000 slaves in India’s “carpet belt” alone, the filmmakers found. Worldwide, according to United Nations studies, some 26 million people are slaves, held against their will, by force and kept penniless – a figure that drew gasps from the preview audience in Washington.

“It’s the vulnerable poor” who are kidnapped, says Kate Blewett, co-producer of the film with Brian Woods. In India, Woods added, “There’s general acceptance of child labor in families, but no one accepts slavery.” But western rug buyers who ask about child labor and child slavery receive false answers, and accept them, the filmmakers found.

This article was written by Press Associates, Inc. Used with permission.

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