[PULSE.NG] Two girls sprint from a hair salon into a car that will lead them back to safety in Vietnam -- a snapshot of the daring rescues taking place each month to free women and girls from forced marriages or sex slavery in China.Filmed on a shaky camera phone, the successful rescue saved the Vietnamese teenagers from a brothel in China, where a huge surplus of males has fuelled the lucrative trade for brides and sex workers.
Bringing them home is dangerous work, pitting rescuers against vengeful husbands, pimps and organised trafficking networks who spin tens of millions of dollars selling women from poor Mekong countries.
"No one wants their business to be broken," says a rescuer from Blue Dragon, a Hanoi-based non-profit.
| ...nor their beds to be empty. Vietnamese hotties are better than no hotties at all in a country that jumpstarted its ancient habit of female infaticide back in the 1980s. |
They are among tens of thousands trafficked into China from impoverished pockets of Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos.