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Up to 1 million women trafficked for sex in Guangdong
Human trafficking is a serious problem in the 21st century. According to HumanTrafficking.org, in China, women and children are trafficked for sexual and labor exploitation in Malaysia, Thailand, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Europe, Canada, Japan, Italy, Burma, Singapore, South Africa, and Taiwan.
Chinese website Boxun,net has reported on human trafficking in Guangdong Province. According to information supplied by a variety of sources, the Family Planning Office, FPO, in Guangdong has recruited thugs and ruffians to carry out raids, as well as fine and arrest people. The website report says the thugs are not paid by the Family Planning Office. According to the site, the thugs take advantage of the fact that the Family Planning Department is never punished by higher authorities, and engage in human trafficking,
Boxun.net says that young women who moved from rural areas to work in the cities are abducted by those thugs and gang-raped repeatedly until they succumb to prostitution. Some women have escaped and reported the situation to the police, only to be arrested for prostitution and sent to a labour camp.
A 2006 US Department of Human Trafficking Report states that some local officials are complicit in trafficking, including village leaders who sought to prevent police from rescuing victims. Boxun.net said that the thugs from the Family Planning Office offer young women and money to local police on a regular basis.
The HumanTracfficking.org website says that China hasnt adopted a comprehensive law to criminalise all forms of human trafficking. However the criminal code criminalizes forced prostitution, abduction, and commercial sexual exploitation of girls under the age of 14. The penalty could be death. I ask our listeners if thats good enough?
According to the investigation, an FPO on the outskirts of Guangzhou and Shenzhen has jurisdiction over 200 -300 thousand migrant workers. In this region, as many as 1000 women were gang-raped and injured. Based on this, Boxun.net estimated that victims in Guangdong could reach up to 100 thousand per year.
Human trafficking began in the region in the early 90s. Since then, at least 1 million women have been victimised, the report says. Women who died during gang-rape were cremated by authorities. Their families were often told they died because of complications during abortion procedures.
Victims and families have no hope of justice because their cases are rejected by the Communist Party courts. Public outrage in the Guangdong region among peasant workers has reached on all time high.
(http://humantrafficking.org/countries/china)
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