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Traffickers target NE women; sell them like cattle
Nagaland Post | Agencies | Guwahati, Dec 23 ()
As Delhi convulses in deep anger and anxiety at the gang-rape of a 23-year-old last Sunday, quietly in the North-East hordes of women continue to be put up for sale - for work as bonded labourers, as wives to men around the country too old or infirm to get one, and as prostitutes in the brothels of the country.
In fact, so blaise and open is the trade that there is a price fixed for each category -- Rs 1 lakh for marriage, Rs 1.5 lakh for prostitution and Rs 5,000-Rs 6,000 for bonded labour.
“Assam has become the hotbed of human traffickers from all over the country,” says Kailash Satyarthi, noted anti-human trafficking and child labour activist. “Children from the North-East, mostly minor girls, are trafficked for being used as domestic helps in metros and are physically abused and sexually exploited as well. Every year, 4,000 children go missing from the state.”
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