Daughter was abducted in India, mother rescued transnationally! Exposing the darkness of underage trafficking in Southeast Asia

In June of this year, 34-year-old Asiya brought her daughter Marium (both pseudonyms) into Bangladesh from the Indian border. They were arrested immediately without any documents.


However, after the border police interrogated the two, their stories not only shocked everyone present, they even quickly became hot news in Bangladesh in the next few days:


In order to save her daughter who was abducted to India, Asiya took the initiative to contact the human trafficker at the time and deliberately let herself be abducted to India in the same way. He went all the way to find out the abduction route, and finally rescued his daughter.


Asiya's family portrait

introduced a 17-year-old acquaintance from Marriage to India on January 15. Somewhere in, a beauty salon is hiring, not to mention the clean working environment, and the salary is also very good.


For Marium, this job is undoubtedly a gift in the snow, so far away from home, I can just escape the marriage forced by my parents:


" It's good, so when the person told me that I could leave that day, I immediately packed up and went with him."



half way,This "acquaintance" handed her over to two "beauty salon staff" who came to respond. It was not until we reached the border of Bangladesh that Marium gradually realized something was wrong.


"It was midnight, and I started to cry unconsciously after feeling their true identity."


knew that Marium didn't panic at all. , Took her directly to the dock and pushed a passenger ship.


Fortunately, Marium quickly calmed down, taking advantage of the two human traffickers not paying attention, borrowing a mobile phone from the passengers beside him and calling home.


"Mom, I am about to be taken to India, save me!"


However, the traffickers discovered the self-rescue operation and quickly ran away to steal her telephone.


While struggling, before hanging up the call, Marium shouted the names of the two human traffickers into the mobile phone with the loudest voice and the fastest speed in his life.


On the other side of the phone, after her daughter's voice disappeared, Asiya quickly went to the police station to report the crime, and told the police everything she knew, the information of the "acquaintance", including the names of the two traffickers.


"At that time,I firmly believe that the police will take action. "


Asiya showed the missing report registered in the police station

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Any information about her daughter.


Until February, the mother was completely desperate. She realized that if she waited like this, the police would still give her the same answer even one year later.


Since the police are unreliable, Asiya decided to act on his own: wants to know where his daughter was sold, the only way is to be sold by the same person.


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img The route that Asiya and his daughter were trafficked


Thinking of the "acquaintances" mentioned by his daughter on the phone, Asiya immediately dialed the phone and asked him to introduce himself to work on the grounds of "job hunting", so that he could be abroad Better.


"No problem, I will introduce to you, now there is one in India..." This answer from an acquaintance is exactly what she wants.


The next day,Asiya took all the savings in the family, totaling 700 dollars, and set foot on the path her daughter had walked.


A few days later, she was taken to a brothel in New Delhi and asked about it. Then she knew that her daughter was not here.


"It turned out that not all women will be sold to the same place."


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But Asiya She didn't give up. In order to get more information, she would stay here even if she was forced.


In this way, Asiya worked until June, but still could not find out the whereabouts of her daughter. In desperation, she took the opportunity to call her husband in her hometown quietly to discuss the next steps.


Surprisingly, there was good news from the husband on the other end of the phone.


Just a few days ago, ’s daughter Marium contacted him through the guest’s mobile phone and gave him the exact location , in a brothel in Bihar, in eastern India, away from his mother Asiya New Delhi is more than 1,000 kilometers away.


Asiya who knows the news can't sit still anymore,She escaped from the brothel that night. Along the way, with the help of the locals, she arrived in Bihar and rescued her through the guests her daughter had received.


"The brothel owner said that she bought my daughter from Bangladesh for $3,404."


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After they met again, they couldn't take care of the greetings. Asiya took her daughter to escape from this hellish place overnight, and arrived at the Indian border after four days of day and night.


The two men with no passports and no entry and exit records immediately attracted the attention of the Indian border guards. After an investigation, their stories were exploded.


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After several consecutive days of sweeping reports,The Bangladeshi government also learned about the entire incident and quickly organized police forces to arrest three traffickers as quickly as possible. (Why did you go?)


There are as many as 1 member of the group, according to the police. Poor women from the lower classes are their main target. Each victim is sold to an Indian middleman at a price of US$1,173 to US$1,760, who then sells them to various brothels in India.


The arrested Kalu is also the leader of the organization, and he has 8-10 years of human trafficking experience.


According to statistics from BFS (Indian Border Force) , India is still the main destination and route for trafficking in Bangladeshi women, and at least 50,000 Bangladeshi women are trafficked here every year. However, in the past 10 years, only 2,000 women have been rescued and returned home.



Therefore, Marium can be successfully retrieved. For 3span, who has long been shrouded in the nightmare of sex trafficking, it is called 3span.


What’s shocking is thatThis industrial chain from “India~Bangladesh” is only the tip of the iceberg of underage sex trafficking in Southeast Asia.


According to the 2016 Global Human Trafficking Report issued by the United Nations, 85% of the 40.3 million trafficked people worldwide are victims of Southeast Asia, 51% of which are women, and nearly a third One is underage.



Among them, Thailand is the main source country, destination and transfer station for underage sex trafficking in the entire Southeast Asia region.


With the development of tourism and the development of the sex industry, the demand for "underage sex workers" by tourists is also increasing.


In order to support the family, some parents in poor areas even actively sell their children to brothels.



On the other hand, due to the opening of border ports, minors in Cambodia, Myanmar, and Laos have also become the main suppliers of Thailand's red light districts.


Many traffickers abduct them to popular tourist cities in Thailand on the pretext of offering jobs. In fact, what awaits them is endless sexual assault and abuse.


With Thailand’s continuous crackdown on the child sex industry in recent years,Many traffickers use bars as a cover to disguise girls as "artists" to attract men into consumption.


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Span was rescued in the bar in 2017 for the first time. Every year since then, Thailand’s anti-human trafficking working group has been able to investigate more than a dozen bars involving child “artists”.


Unlike the children’s bars in Tibet, in Cambodia, there are even blatant children’s brothels.


As one of the poorest countries in Asia, the shanty towns on the outskirts of the capital Phnom Penh are the core areas of children’s brothels. Poverty has become the main reason for promoting this industry. In order to make money, "virgin trade" has also become the most common phenomenon there.


A slum in the suburbs of Phnom Penh


_p5upan was certified by a doctor after she was taken out by a doctor at the hospital. For 500 US dollars, "Chu Ye" was sold to a man in his 50s.

Without her "virginity", she was sent to a local children's brothel and pushed to hell step by step.


Marium is unfortunate,But she was lucky again. For her, the mother can overcome everything and pull her out of the abyss. However, there are still many victims who are still deep in purgatory. Who will save them in the future?

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