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THE RAID 
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hailing from remote villages ; the young women are 
either bartered or kept by their captors and added 
to their households as concubines. No sentiment 
whatever is displayed for the feelings of those poor 
souls, who are being shared out as if they were 
inanimate objects. 
It seems atrocious that such a state of affairs 
should be allowed to exist at this very day in a 
territory administered by a so-called civilized, 
European Government. 
