The Rat people of Pakistan - Hip Hop/Rap Music and Urban Social Network Community

**Plot** · 02-13-2006, 06:33 PM

[font=VerdanaFONT]

To Some, They Are Victims Of Cruel Abuse, To Others, They Are Messengers From God.
Thousands of beggars can be seen on the streets, writes Akhtar Soomro from Karachi, but some of them are different. People call them 'Chuwas' from their rodent-like appearance. The name means 'rat'

Some believe that the chuwas have special powers. Give them money and they will touch you on the shoulder conferring a blessing. But no one discusses the origins of the chuwas
If you ask them some will say they were born with those funny shaped heads. Others will talk nervously of abandoned or kidnapped children taken by gangs and elevated to adulthood in cruel savagery.
They talk of heads bound in steel cuffs and feet squeezed into iron shoes. Normal mental and physical growth is impossible and the results are tiny shrunken heads with ill-looking compressed features, large fleshy ears, retarded mannerism, gobs of spittle bubbling from mouth and a life spent dispensing blessings by day and being beaten at night at the hands of their 'keepers.'

The chuwas are then hired like monkeys to professional beggars on a contract basis, where their deformities attract the sympathy and the small change of the passers-by

In this way one chuwa can make as much as 7,000 rupees a month for his minder - the salary of a middle-graded Pakistani civil servants.
...

editing in this new formats impossible, sorry.

**Alterration** · 02-13-2006, 06:39 PM

thats some stupid shit man

**Plot** · 02-13-2006, 06:46 PM

what that its hard to edit posts now?

I'd call the story more tragic & sad than stupid..

Imagine being abducted & turned into a rat person..

**PURE** · 02-13-2006, 06:52 PM

i thought you were making a joke, its clearly harsh, those people should be shot for that..

**Plot** · 02-13-2006, 07:03 PM

its no joke..shits real.

I think Vic might be one tho...

**PURE** · 02-13-2006, 07:07 PM

lol ouch.

its not right, pretty fucked up for someone to do.

**Cliche Guevara** · 02-13-2006, 07:21 PM

"The “Chuwas” are not born but made by wearing hard leather cover on the head and face since childhood. By this method the growth of head stops after a certain time and they also remain mentally retarded. International humanitarians and the government of Pakistan should take serious notice of this inhuman practice, which is not only a gross violation of human rights but also a crime against humanity."

Ouch.

**Chris The Man** · 02-13-2006, 07:27 PM

I honestly dont care

Sue me

**Quarter Crack** · 02-13-2006, 07:28 PM

Extremely fucked up.

**PURE** · 02-13-2006, 07:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris The Man

I honestly dont care

Sue me

quite franky, cold ass.

**Chris The Man** · 02-13-2006, 07:34 PM

Wtf should I shed a tear some fuckin ppl millions of miles away whom I will never meet, or have any contact with?

I couldnt care less honestly...shits like a period, they bad for girls but dont bother me cuz I aint havin em

**Plot** · 02-13-2006, 07:46 PM

yeah, Im not askin you to be sympathetic Chris..
Im just enlightening U on the Chuwas!
More exposure for these times of global problems the better in my opinion.
Use the net to..blah wtaever,
Just next time ya miserable just thank the stars ya not a Chuwa.

**PURE** · 02-13-2006, 07:49 PM

at least see its not right.

**Chris The Man** · 02-13-2006, 08:00 PM

I never said it was right, I jus said it dont matter to me

**PURE** · 02-13-2006, 08:02 PM

ok. it doesnt matter that much to me cuz it doesnt affect me in no way at all, but i just thought you were saying you dont think its wrong, sorry for taking it the wrong way.

Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)