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it's HORRID. just HORRID.
and of course MORE evidence women are far less than second class citizens (everywhere, not just in china)
CHINA GHOST BRIDE HORROR
Gang kills women for dead grooms
WHEN farmer Yang Donghai approached a poor family asking to 'buy' their mentally-handicapped daughter for an arranged marriage, they agreed, thinking she would have a better life.
But Yang, 35, was only telling half the truth.
He later killed the girl and sold her corpse as a 'ghost bride' to the family of a dead single man.
Chinese police have arrested Yang, and two other men, Liu Shengbao and Hui Haibao, for killing two young women and selling their corpses as part of this dark custom.
And they believe that there might have been many other victims.
In certain parts of China, it is believed that young men who die unmarried should go to their graves accompanied by women who will be their dead wives in the afterlife. Often, these women die natural deaths.
Yang, who is from western China's Shaanxi province, has confessed to killing the girl, who he bought for 12,000 yuan ($2,400) last year.
He had initially intended to sell her into a marriage as promised.
Then he ran into Liu at a guesthouse in Yanchuan county, where the latter offered him RMB10,200 for the girl's corpse...............
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2 comments:
The cultural treatment of girl babies in China is one of the reasons Dragonwife and I adopted the little one I call Miss Wiggles on my blog.
But like you wrote in the heading China is far from the only country where crimes against women happen. My sister was abused by her now ex-husband but county officals where she lived were less than concerned about the brusies on her face.
i was by no means picking on china (this time). it happens RIGHT HERE TOO (not the ghost wives but other things).
we have to educate our children. girls ARE just as good as boys. they are 'WORTH' JUST as much. no special treatment just EQUAL treatment
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