Bartered Brides
Hmong girls, in Sapa, in the north of Vietnam, are kidnapped by gangsters and sold in China as brides. Sapa is an attractive place, which is located not far from the border with China, enough to gather many tourists including gangsters. The Hmong girls don’t know about outside world, so they are cheated easily and sent to China to be sold as brides. An 18-year-old girl managed to escape from the gangsters and contacted to Chinese police. She could come back to her family, but many women were kidnapped and couldn’t come back home. The relationship between Vietnam and China was not so good, because of borderline war. However, it is time to need a co-operation to each other and this problem will be the start.
When I read this article, I was shocked that there are still cruel women trades in the world. Actually, a lot of women are working in the sexual industry, particularly, in the big cities. Mostly, they are poor, under educated, even under aged. Some of them are cheated or kidnapped by dark power, gangster. They can’t escape from the chain. Many years ago, there were very similar crimes in Korea. Many young women were kidnapped and sold as a prostitute. Women are weak physically, so they could be targets of crime easily. I hope there’s no more tragedy like this in the world.
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References
Bartered Brides (March 12th, 2009)). The Economist. Retrieved on March 19th from http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13278577 .
Thursday 19 March 2009
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It is an awful report. Although I favour the legalisation of prostitution, I think that criminals who abduct young women, or even children, to sell them into sex slavery should be executed. In fact, the need to protect women from such abuse seems to me a strong reason for legalising prostitution. If there work were legal, women would be more easily able to complain to police when they are abused, and the likely lower prices would make it less attractive to gangster types.
ReplyDeleteI don't think prostitution will ever end, or that any society has ever been without it, but it would be a very good thing to stamp out the sort of kidnapping and other abuses that Sunny has brought to our attention.
the sort of events Sunny reported, actually, happens in Thailand gradually.
ReplyDeleteLegalization of prostitution seem like a good ways to solve this problems. However, in Thailand, due to Thais tradition, prostitutes are not accepted. Legalization of prostitution cause Thais know their job easily. As a result, they may not have position to stay in Thais society.
I agree with Peter. Like drug, I've never thought of legalization for prostitution; however, it will become clear who needs those kind of business(I mean who runs the business under ground), how much should be paid, and the tax can be paid for that. As Peter says, it'll never end, so should be made clear.
ReplyDeleteHi there, I'll try to keep blogging:)