Vietnamese Women Reportedly Sold as Slaves
HANOI — More than 100 women from a northern rural province in Vietnam were sold into slavery and sent across the border to China during the first five months of this year, an official newspaper said Monday.
“There has been a rise in Hai Hung of the crime of luring women to the border, then selling them to foreigners,” the weekly Dai Doan Ket (Great Solidarity) reported.
It said that 52 people, including some state employees, are under investigation for possible involvement in the slave trade.
“The organizers were paid 800,000 dong ($94) for each girl they handed over at a special meeting place in the border town of Lang Son, or 400,000 dong ($47) if they handed them over in their own province,” Dai Doan Ket said.
The magazine said those involved had duped divorced women and young girls from Hai Hung, an agricultural province in the Red River delta between Hanoi and the port city of Haiphong, by promising them lives of luxury abroad.
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