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The Little Hero By Andrew Crofts Published by Vision Paperbacks 2006 |
At
jut twelve years of age Iqbal Masih was gunned down by an assassin.
Iqbal
was sold by his parents to a carpet factory owner at the age of four. It was
six long years before he succeeded in escaping the clutches of his tyrannical
master. A young boy alone in the world,
surviving off foraging scraps, he stumbled across a Bonded Labour Liberation
Front rally. The organization took him
in, and he began tirelessly working to spread the work to other enslaved
children that they too could be free.
Iqbal
participated in raids on illegal factories and addressed international
conventions. He was awarded the Reebok
‘Youth in Action’ Award and a scholarship to study law in Boston. But before he could start to enjoy the
results of his hard work, his life was cut short by a hail of bullets from the
gun of an unknown sympathizer with the carpet masters.