They threatened to dissect me for my organs if I wouldn't get married. She refused to get married and cried every day, she said. “When I knew what was going on, I was already in China.” “We hung out at the market and when we left to go home, they took me straight to China,” recounted Giang, who wanted to be known only by this nickname. She suspected that she had been drugged, as she suddenly found herself in China. Kidnapped and sold to human traffickers, many of these young girls end up re-sold as brides in China, a country grappling with a gender imbalance in which men greatly outnumber women, as the programme Insight discovers. In the scenic rural highlands of northwestern Vietnam, girls like Linh, and as young as 13, have been disappearing from the remote villages at an alarming rate. They beat me without fear because I am not Chinese.” At that house, I had to obey everything they said or else I would be beaten. Probably everyone was raped,” she recalled. “If you are trafficked, of course you will be raped. That family 'friend' turned out to be a lying crook – he was in fact working for a human trafficking ring, and had taken a year to slowly befriend the 17-year-old.Įn route to Muong Khuong, the teenager was kidnapped and brought to China, where she was forced to marry a stranger. HANOI: Linh, a high school student, thought nothing of accepting a family friend’s casual invitation to visit the neighbouring district of Muong Khuong.
