A leading international rights group on Thursday demanded the governments of Myanmar and China give greater attention to cross-border "bride" trafficking.
In a newly released report "Give Us a Baby and We’ll Let You Go": Trafficking of Kachin "Brides" from Myanmar to China, Human Rights Watch (HRW) detailed the trafficking of women and girls from Myanmar’s northern Kachin state and northeastern Shan state into sexual slavery in China.
Among 37 survivors, HRW interviewed for the report is an ethnic Kachin woman who was only 16 when she was trafficked by her sister-in-law to a Chinese family.
She was raped several times while the family who bought her held her in a locked room for nearly two months.
After two months, she was dragged out of the room and informed she was now betrothed to the Chinese man who raped her during her month-long detention.
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