Over 1,100 rescued in human trafficking crackdown

Public security authorities in China announced on Friday that 1,130 women and 17 children who had been abducted have been rescued in China in a multinational police operation cracking down on human trafficking and forced marriage.

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Police from China, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam launched a joint operation last July to break up a massive network that kidnapped and traded people in their region.

A total of 1,332 suspects, including 262 foreigners, have been arrested as a result of the operation, said Guo Lin, a spokesperson for China's Ministry of Public Security.

The trafficking of woman has become an increasingly complex problem in China and its neighboring countries in recent years. Criminals inside and outside of the country abduct women from neighboring countries and smuggle them into China to work or to be sold as wives.

Police in China will continue collaborating with their overseas counterparts in order to punish people who purchase abducted women and children so that demand is reduced.