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biofunmy · 5 years ago

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Sold to China as a bride, she came home on brink of death

MAZAIKEWALE, Pakistan — Sold by her family as a bride to a Chinese man, Samiya David spent only two months in China. When she returned to Pakistan, the once robust woman was nearly unrecognizable: malnourished, too weak to walk, her speech confused and disjointed.

“Don’t ask me about what happened to me there” was her only reply to her family’s questions, her cousin Pervaiz Masih said.

Within just a few weeks, she was dead.

David’s mysterious death adds to a growing body of evidence of mistreatment and abuses against Pakistani women and girls, mainly Christians, who have been trafficked to China as brides.

AP investigations have found that traffickers have increasingly targeted Pakistan’s impoverished Christian population over the past two years, paying desperate families to give their daughters and sisters, some of them teenagers, into marriage with Chinese men. Once in China, the women are often isolated, neglected, abused and sold into prostitution, frequently contacting home to plead to be brought back. Some women have told The Associated Press and activists that their husbands at times refused to feed them.

A list attained by the AP documented 629 Pakistani girls and women sold to China as brides in 2018 and up to early 2019. The list was compiled by Pakistani investigators working to break up the trafficking networks. But officials close to the investigation and activists working to rescue the women say that government officials, fearful of hurting Pakistan’s lucrative ties to Beijing, have stifled the investigations.

“These poor people have given their daughters for money, and (in China) they do whatever they want to do with them. No one is there to see what happens to the girls,” said Samiya’s cousin, Masih. “This is the height of cruelty. We are poor people.”

David’s death, at the age of 37, shows the extremes of the cruelties trafficked women face. Other women have described being cut off without support, abused physically and mentally. Previously, the AP spoke to seven girls who were raped repeatedly when forced into prostitution. Activists say they have received reports of at least one trafficked bride killed in China but have been unable to confirm.

David now lies buried in an unmarked grave in a small Christian graveyard overgrown with weeds near her ancestral village of Mazaikewale in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province.

Before her marriage, she lived in a cramped two-room house with her brother Saber and her widowed mother in Francisabad Colony, a congested Christian neighborhood of small cement and brick houses in a warren of narrow streets in the Punjab city of Gujranwala. Christians are among the poorest in Pakistan, a mostly Muslim nation of 220 million people.

At the urging of a local pastor, her brother took money from brokers to force her into marriage with a Chinese man. The pastor has since been arrested on suspicion of working with traffickers. A few months after their marriage in late 2018, David and her husband left to China. “When she left for China she was healthy. She looked good and strong,” said Masih.

Her husband was from a relatively poor, rural part of eastern Shandong province that has long struggled with lawlessness. The conservative culture in such areas strongly favors male offspring, which under China’s strict population control policies meant that a great deal of little girls were never born, hence the demand for trafficked foreign wives. Overall, China has about 34 million more men than women.

After two months, her brother got a phone call telling him to pick his sister up at the airport in Lahore. He found David in a wheelchair, too weak to walk.

The AP met David in late April. Living again in the house in Francisabad Colony, she showed her wedding photos, taken six months earlier. In one, she was dressed in a white gown, smiling, looking robust, with long, flowing black hair.

David barely resembled the woman in the picture. Her cheeks were sunken, complexion sallow, her tiny frame emaciated and frail. She seemed confused, her speech incoherent. When asked about her wedding or time in China, she lost focus — her words wandering — and at one point suddenly stood to make tea, mumbling about the sugar. She paced, repeating, “I am ok. I am ok.” When asked why she looked so different in the wedding photos, she stared vacantly into space, finally saying, “There is nothing wrong with me.”

“She has the evil eye,” said her brother, who was present at the interview.

She died a few days later, on May 1.

Dr. Meet Khan Tareen treated Samiya on her one visit to his clinic in Lahore.

“She was very malnourished and very weak,” with anemia and jaundice, he said in an interview. Preliminary tests suggested several possible ailments, including organ failure, and he said he told her brother she needed to be hospitalized. “She was so malnourished . . . a very, very, very low weight,” he said.

Her death certificate listed cause of death as “natural.” Her brother has refused to talk to the police about his sister. When contacted by the AP in November, he said there was no autopsy and that he had lost her marriage documents, copies of her husband’s passport and the pictures David had showed the AP.

David’s cousin said the family is hiding the truth because they sold her as a bride. “They have taken money. That is why they are hiding everything,” said Masih, who is a member of the town’s Union Council, which registers marriages and deaths.

Breaking a family’s silence is difficult, said a senior government official familiar with the investigations into the sale of brides.

“They might sell their daughters, and even if they discover that the marriage was bad or she is suffering, they would rather ignore it than lose face in front of friends and family,” he said on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the media.

The trafficking networks are operated by Pakistani and Chinese brokers who cruise Christian areas willing to sell daughters and sisters. They are known to pay off pastors, particularly at small, evangelical churches, to encourage their flock to do so.

Christian activist Salim Iqbal, who was among the first to sound the alarm last November about bride trafficking, is in touch with a number of Pakistani women in China via groups on the messaging app We Chat. He said one girl recently told him her husband doesn’t give her food or medicine.

Another woman, Samia Yousaf, who was 24 when she was forced into marriage, told the AP of the abuses she suffered in China.

She and her husband went there after she became pregnant. When she arrived, nothing was as her husband had promised. He wasn’t well off. They lived in one room on the edge of a field, infested with spiders.

She gave birth by cesarean section. Her husband’s sister refused to let her hold her son after the birth and controlled when and for how long she could see the child during her six days in the hospital. “I started screaming at her one time when she took my baby,” Yousaf recalled.

Her husband refused to let her breastfeed her son until doctors implored him to allow her to, she said. Unable to walk without assistance, the doctors asked her husband to take her for a walk and he repeatedly let her fall, refusing to help her back up.

After she left the hospital, abuses continued. Her husband denied her food. “He was cruel. I thought he wanted to kill me,” she said.

Three weeks later, authorities threatened her with jail because her visa had expired. Her husband had kept her passport. Frightened and unwell, she pleaded with him to let her and her son go home to Pakistan.

But he refused to let her take the baby. She discovered her name was not on her son’s registration, only her husband’s.

The last time she saw her son was in September 2017, just before her return.

“Every day I think of my baby,” said Yousaf, who works as a nanny in Lahore. “I wonder what he looks like. My heart is always sad.”

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Associated Press writer Shahid Aslam in Lahore, Pakistan, contributed to this report.

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thespearnews-blog · 7 years ago

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The Rwandan's land grabbing and occupation strategy through inter-marriages

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The Rwandan's land grabbing and occupation strategy through inter-marriages

By Maureen Kyalya Waluube

As we move towards yet another round of enslaving ourselves in our own land, I would like to remind Ugandans the fruits of marrying foreign wives. Of course I cannot stop you because it is biblical, you have eyes but do not see and you have ears but do not here.

As I write this, all the Kings we worship and bow down too in Uganda are children of Egytians and Sudanese Nilotics (Luo) who migrated to Uganda under the Leadership of Rukiidi Mpunga and was allowed by Ugandans to abuse and take away their God led Kingship and leadership. THIS IS THE SAME FREEDOM YOU ARE GIVING #YOWERIKAGUTAMUSEVEN whose mother and father you do not know to defy abuse and destroy everything Ugandan.

As a result all the legally recognised Ugandan Kings from Kigezi to Karamoja are Babiito and their children. The “Mukama’s as they call themselves; Kabaka; Kyabazinga; Emorimori; Rwots; mention it. Your culture is crushed, your gods are defiled, your land is abused, your freedom is a myth and yet you are too blind to see what is right under your noses.

All the slaves in Uganda; called Bairu (HEBREWS) in Western Uganda and Peasants elsewhere are children of native Ugandans who moved all the way back from slavery by the Egyptians only to be enslaved by the Bahiima (Egyptians) whose women they married and whose children were brought up with a cold Egyptian heart to enslave Hebrews (Bahiima) and rule over them on their own land.

All the confusion of the Lango (people with many languages) also called Bakedi or Basoga although has now become a tribe were children of foreign women each teaching their own children their own mother tongue hence the tribalism and unnecessary unending wars in Uganda. For sure in Busoga where I come from; Ibrahim (Called Mawerere) in Busoga, while living there having left his home I assume in Bunhole where all humans were created, had 3 women. The first woman was an Egyptian woman Haggai who gave birth to the oldest child (Kakaire) also known as Gabula (foreigners can offer what natives cannot) and these have maintained a none ending war, burning and killing each other over centuries.

East of the Nile “Kedi” believe it or not that whole country as shown in green on the map was one nation called Busoga, changed to Bukedi by the British Governor when he reported we who lived there were “naked and shameless” hence becoming Bakedi. From the Owen falls dam to Karamoja we spoke one language, an elderly of Teso who went to world War One and is over 100 years now said we spoke Kumam. So by the time the British came we all cooperated, worked together and spoke Kumam.

But ask yourselves how many tribes and kingdoms and divisions to we have now. Karamajonga, Acholi, Langi, Teso, Kumam, Gishu, Soga, Lamogi, Kene, Gwere, Samia, etc each speaking their language and fighting for a share of physical land that we otherwise used to enjoy together as a nation.

I was wondering where all these tribes came from until the Lord I worship, who inspires me to talk to your hearts gave me the answer. The Lango actually have recorded it in their history. They are descendants of King David and very specifically of King Solomon his son according to their own recorded and generational history.

If any of you reads the bible which all Ugandans should read as a history book, then tell me, just how many foreign women did King Solomon marry? Are you surprised that you have the Iteso right in heart of Lango clearly denouncing not to be part of you but ruling over all of you and having domain over the old Lango teritory all the way to present Bukedi to the Japadhola borders. Was Solomon’s most favourite wife a Lango of Ugandan if I can put it that way. Was he a native of your land?

Cant you see that although we clearly have mother tongues which are Kumam (Mother Tongue) used by our ancestors and Lunhole (Creation Tongue) used by our fore fathers usually called Bachwezi in history; our land is so dominated by our sisters and brother who are children of foreign women, each with a speicific foreign tongue now called tribe that they would never allow us to unite under any National unifying language.

I was only a child but realised that by removing Luganda as an official language and replacing it with Swahili so we had two foreign languages English and Swahili, the MPs were taking us back to being alien and colonised in our own country. If millions of us managed to learn English, how could we fail to learn a national language even if it was Karamoja, deemed to be the hardest tongue.

But we all allowed #M7 and #NRM to take away our only unifying national language now we have replaced it with Kinyarwanda being marketed as Lunyankore.

As they offer you Rwandese women to marry as my friend #AtwookiJudieJudith was alarmed with 50 iron sheets to build their homes. Just remember you are building those houses for foreigners on Uganda soils and effectively giving away even the little that is left of our nationality.

I am very positive that since many of your were brought up as Kings, you will die as first as white ants as soon as you are made slaves. Now #M7 has made himself King of #Bunhole your ancestral home in Busoga/ Bukedi where you all come from and you are all going there to beg him even for your own land, forests and natural resources. You are worshipping him and accepting gifts from him.

Fighting and rejecting your own children like you rejected Jesus and yet through hypocrisy now worship him after his death. And you are expecting him and his people whom you do not know but only guess to treat you as humans when they eventually own all your land which is soon happening through the said LandBill.

Does any of you know #M7 father or mother. Has any of you been invited to their graveyard and shown the graves of his grand parents. From what tribe and clan is the name Kaguta? Is there any family with that name other than his own?

These are questions you need to ask yourselves. Of course I know your eyes cannot see, your ears cannot hear but I have taken the time to write this down so your children who will be slaves and destitute by all standards can read and understand that you their ancestors were gluttons and through your greed knowingly sold their land and heritage to foreigners.

We the Uganda Tories and conservatives will do our job to try and save your land from foreigners but it is really up to you. The Creator gave you free will. You want to be slaves and destitute on your own soils, so it shall be.

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thespearnews-blog · 7 years ago

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The Rwandan's land grabbing and occupation strategy through inter-marriages

New Post has been published on https://thespearnews.com/2017/08/10/rwandans-land-grabbing-occupation-strategy-inter-marriages/

The Rwandan's land grabbing and occupation strategy through inter-marriages

By Maureen Kyalya Waluube

But we all allowed #M7 and #NRM to take away our only unifying national language now we have replaced it with Kinyarwanda being marketed as Lunyankore.

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