Human trafficker sued by her victim

Human trafficker sued by her victim

Published on Wednesday, 08 January 2014 20:02

A Myanmar woman sent to China as a victim of human trafficking reported her abduction to the Myanmar Police Force and is now suing the woman responsible for her ordeal, according to the force's anti-trafficking unit.

The woman, who has asked not to be named, is from Kachin State. Chinese police rescued her from the traffickers and transferred her to the anti-trafficking unit at Lweje on December 30.

On May 5 last year, she and another woman had visited Yang Gyan Province in China to sell precious stones. While showing their merchandise to brokers, they met with Nyein Nyein, also known as "Ah Lwe," a Myanmar woman they had met three years earlier who also lived in Kachin State and had opened a massage room there. Nyein Nyein reportedly told the two women that she would help them sell their precious stones in Yang Gyan. She also offered them a place to stay there, as local hotels were very expensive.

For these reasons, the two women moved into a house in Yang Gyan that was rented by Nyein Nyein.

While they were staying at the house, Nyein Nyein at first tried to persuade—before finally forcing—one of the women to marry a Chinese man. Police say that the other woman stayed at the house against her will. She begged Nyein Nyein for some travel funds, but was refused. Instead, Nyein Nyein told her that if she married a Chinese man the woman could send a lot of money to her family. Then she confiscated the woman's registration card and passport.

On May 18 at a village in Hunan, the other woman was forcibly married to a Chinese man at a cost of Yuan 31,000 (Ks 5.02 million).

With that money, Nyein Nyein bought herself a gold earring worth Yuan 2,500 and a gold chain worth Yuan 8,000, and kept the remaining Yuan 20,500. The Chinese man was identified as Phyu Yone.

Shortly after the wedding, the woman told Nyein Nyein that she wished to return home because of her husband's persecution.

Nyein Nyein replied that if she wanted to return home, the woman would have to pay her Yuan 31,000. She agreed, and was able to return to Myanmar.

About four months later, she received a call from her friend, the second woman, who was still in China and trying to get back home.

On December 11, she called the Lweje anti-trafficking unit and asked for help getting her friend back. On December 30, she was returned to the country via the Myanmar-China border gate.

In January 1, she filed a suit against Nyein Nyein, a.k.a. Ah Lwe, at the Lweje police station under Section 24, which deals with human trafficking.

The victim currently remains at the human traffickers temporary protection centre, under the Social Welfare Department, in Muse.

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