Numerous Nepali women and girls have been discovered to have been trafficked to various locations in China by a network of Chinese racketeers and Nepali accomplices.
Horrifying testimonies of people who were tricked into marrying Chinese men by Nepali operatives and then exploited sexually, mentally, and physically by the men they’married’ have been provided to DMN News. Vulnerable women and girls from low income families in Nepal’s rural hills in districts bordering China are offered lucrative jobs and better off life in China by Nepali procurers in exchange for their agreeing to marry Chinese nationals. Nepali procurers prepare the documents, probably by bribing the local authorities, and then take the Nepali women to China and hand them over to the Chinese nationals.
Promises of good jobs. Assurance of a better life. Words of marriage. Dream of lavish living standards. These are the tricks used by rackets to convince family members and women before the victims know that these promises and assurances are false only when they are trapped in the nightmare of abuse, including sex trafficking. The victims understand what has been done to them only after reaching China but by then it is too late and they are not in a position to do anything about it as they are often denied access to Nepali authorities in Beijing.
One and off, Nepal Police becomes able to bust the trafficking racket but those to be arrested are mostly Nepali procurers while the Chinese nationals complicit in the crime go scot-free. This is not the first case where investigation authorities fail to bring the Chinese side to book. In 2015, for example, the Central Investigation Bureau of Nepal Police busted a China, Korea marriage racket, one of the biggest trafficking schemes of the time. Initially, Nepal Police had pledged to investigate the magnitude of the crime. The police, however, failed to uncover the collaborators from the China side.
Nepal Police officials say that lack of coordination and cooperation from the Chinese side as well as the nature of crime being transnational and organized make it difficult to bring the culprits to book. “Once the victims cross the border it becomes difficult to track them and provide them justice,” said Hemanta Malla Thakuri, a former Deputy Inspector General of Nepal Police. “Besides, there is a lack of coordination, cooperation and communication with the Chinese side in this matter,” he added. “The Chinese side does not cooperate with Nepali investigating authorities as much as they should.”
Thakuri was Director at Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) when Nepal Police busted a racket in 2015 that used to run a marriage bureau in Kathmandu and used to lure young girls into marriage with Korean and Chinese men. We did not get enough support and cooperation in the investigation process in that case too, Thakuri recalled. According to Superintendent Gautam Mishra, spokesperson for the Anti Human Trafficking Investigation Bureau, so far six cases of luring Nepali women into marriage and selling them into prostitution have been registered with Nepali Police, four of them accusing involvement of the Chinese nationals.
“Victims do not come to the police due to fear, and also because communities and family members are non-cooperative,” he said. “Even when cases are reported to the police, the victims often withdraw their complaints as they are lured with financial support and they turn hostile while giving testimony at the court.”The 2023 Trafficking in Persons Report mentioned some forced marriage cases in China, many of which continued to demonstrate corollary indicators of sex trafficking and forced labor, were mediated at the village level; these proceedings rarely culminated in a guilty verdict through which to grant restitution to the victims. The 2022 Trafficking in Persons Report states that some Nepali women who agree to arranged marriages through Nepali companies to men in China and South Korea are forced into domestic servitude.
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