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| Tragedy Is Inherited for Refugees |
| 2009-05-25 |
| The terrible human rights abuses against refugees in China are still going on. Among them, the human trafficking of young women is thriving. The State Council of the People's Republic of China estimates that 38 million older bachelors in rural provinces of China have difficulty finding a spouse. In practice, some are consumers of North Korean women who cross the border. Depending upon the locations the women have to move to after being sold, their age and health condition, they sell for between a few thousand and 15 thousand Yuan. Those who are involved in human trafficking are not always gangsters, but general citizens in rural areas certainly sell North Korean women. In some bad cases, women are sold to people in western or southern provinces, thousands of kilometers from the northeastern provinces where refugees generally take shelter. Some of them don't know even where their new home is, or even whether they are in China, according to NGO activists. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #5 I have een told that the 38 million bachelors is a statistic; that the ratio of men to women all over China is about the same. When a rural family has a girl, they just don't register her birth and continue to make babies until a son is born. If anything, there is a surplus in fact of Chinese woman, not a shortage. They're just unregistered children. |
| Posted by: badanov 2009-05-25 12:35 |
| #4 I can't get fired up over this. It's not what I'd want for a daughter, but then, we don't live in NKor, one of the poorest countries on earth next door to relatively prosperous China. China's cut its supply of marriageable women by its birth control and favored son policies. NKor has made leaving preferable to staying for most of its people. I think the "human traffickers" in this case are more in the mail-order bride business, with the usualy older fellow getting a comely young bride, and the girly getting what should be a good home. With the exception of abuse cases, it's a relatively humane solution to both problems. |
| Posted by: Fred 2009-05-25 10:51 |
| #3 North Korea - the U **spit** |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-05-25 10:00 |
| #2 Modeling on the Islamic system? Where the alpha male gets a harem and the rest of the boys get castrated, or goats, or suicide bombs? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2009-05-25 08:48 |
| #1 38 million older bachelors in rural provinces of China have difficulty finding a spouse. Oi vey |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-05-25 04:42 |