Over 230 human trafficking rings recorded | Look At Vietnam - Vietnam news daily update

May 29, 2010

VietNamNet Bridge – By May 2010, 3190 children and women, victims of human trafficking, came home. Some 60 percent of them returned home on their own and 40 percent were rescued.

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The information was provided by Deputy Minister of Social, War Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Trong at a conference reviewing five-year implementation of the scheme to assist women and children who are victims of human traffickers in 2005-2010.

Provincial departments of social, war invalids and social affairs reported to provide mental assistance and health check-up services to 2532 victims and finance 1037 victims to learn a trade and to re-join the community.

In addition, the International Organisation for Migration and Terre Des Hommes have given aid worth $300-500/person to over 200 victims who are in extremely difficult conditions in An Giang, Dong Thap, Can Tho, Tay Ninh, Bac Giang, Lao Cai, etc.

A survey of the Vietnam Women’s Union Central Committee shows that most of Vietnamese women and children who are sold to China had to work very hard, suffer from sexual abuses, and were forced to work as prostitutes. After being rescued and returning to Vietnam, many women suffer from mental disorders, social diseases, incurable diseases, and infertility.

The police reported over 3600 human traffickers and 235 human trafficking rings in Vietnam.

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Vietnamese police bust human-trafficking ring | Earth Times News

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Posted : Mon, 05 Jul 2010 05:49:40 GMT By : dpa

Hanoi - Police in Hanoi arrested 19 members of an alleged international human-trafficking ring and rescued nine teenage girls, an official said Monday."This is the largest human-trafficking ring ever arrested in Hanoi," said Senior Lieutenant-Colonel Nguyen Van Thanh, deputy head of Dong Da District's Police Department. Officials said a 17-year-old girl on a train from Hanoi to the northern province of Lao Cai called out to other passengers on June 19, saying she was being abducted and sold to China. Under questioning, the girl's fellow passenger admitted he was taking her to China to sell.

Police unravelled the suspected trafficker's gang over the following weeks, arresting 19 others aged between 17 and 41, and rescuing nine girls aged between 13 and 16.Three of the girls were found confined in brothels, where they were beaten and starved if they refused to serve customers.One of the chief suspects, Ngo Manh Tien, 17, was said to live in Yunnan, China, and was arrested on June 23 on his return to Vietnam. The others living in Vietnam were arrested between June 24-29.The suspects admitted to having sold 12 women and children this year for between 2 and 12 million dong each (107 and 650 dollars), police said. If convicted, they face up to 20 years in prison for trafficking people under 16 years old, considered minors by Vietnamese law.

Thanh said members of the gang would befriend victims online, then invite them to go shopping in provinces near the Chinese border such as Lang Son and Lao Cai. There, they would be abducted and sold to China, or to brothels in the tourist town of Do Son in Hai Phong province.

The traffickers would sometimes pay off teenagers' debts to internet cafe owners to win their confidence, Thanh said. "We don't know exactly how many people have been sent to China for prostitution by this ring," he said. "We need more time to investigate."Police said at least 6,684 Vietnamese women and children have been trafficked abroad by June since 2005.

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