My sister, I don’t know where you’re going, or how I’ll be able to communicate with you, or even if we’ll meet again. I just beg of you, don’t forget. Tell somebody our story. Tell everybody our story. So that the memory will not be lost.
That’s the only way to keep Iqbal at our sides forever.
Your sister,
Maria
Epilogue
Iqbal Masih was murdered on Easter Sunday in 1995, in Muritke, a village some thirty kilometers from Lahore, Pakistan. He was about thirteen.
His murderers have never been discovered.
“He was killed by the Carpet Mafia,” Eshan Khan declared.
Iqbal’s name has become the symbol of the battle to liberate millions of children throughout the world from violence and slavery.
For further reading on Iqbal Masih and child labor laws, see the following sources:
Iqbal Masih
http://www.childrensworld.org/engiqbal/index.asp
http://www.freethechildren.org/campaigns/cl_realstories_iqbal.html
Kuklin, Susan. Iqbal Masih and the Crusaders Against Child Slavery. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1998.
Children’s rights
A Life Like Mine: How Children Live Around the World. New York: DK Publishers, 2002.
Castle, Caroline. For Every Child: The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. New York: Phyllis Fogelman Books/Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 2001.
Child labor
Campbell, Susan Bartoletti. Kids On Strike! Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
Freedman, Russell. Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor. New York: Clarion Books, 1994.
Mofford, Juliet H. (ed.). Child Labor in America (Perspectives on History Series). New York: Discovery Enterprises Limited, 1997.