China’s Guiding Hand in Rape of Pakistan’s Muslim Women

CJ Werleman
4 min readJun 2, 2019
(Pic via South China Morning Post)

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ARY News recently gained entry to an illegal matchmaking center in Lahore, where half-dozen Pakistani women and girls, two of whom were only 13-years-old, were being held as they awaited to be transported to China as brides for Han Chinese men.

According to the report, brokers are luring the Pakistani families of young women and girls into marrying Han Chinese men with the promise of Chinese work visas, upfront cash payments of US$2,800, and ongoing payments of $280 per month.

According to Human Rights Watch, it’s a practice that’s been happening in a number of countries that border China for years, but one that has gathered increasing and alarming momentum in Pakistan due to the arrival of hundreds of thousands of Han Chinese workers in the Islamic country due to the growing bilateral economic relations between Islamabad and Beijing.

Essentially, Chinese gangs are luring impoverished Pakistani families into believing they’re providing their daughters the opportunity of a better life by accepting payment in return for giving away their daughter to a Chinese husband, but only to discover much later this promise turns out to be nothing shy of a horrific nightmare for these mostly teenage girls.

The testimony of a Myanmar girl named Seng Moon, which was documented by Human Rights Watch, narrates the typical journey of those are sold into marriage with Chinese men by human trafficking organizations:

My sister-in-law left me at the home. …The family took me to a room. In that room I was tied up again. …They locked the door — for one or two months…Each time when the Chinese man brought me meals, he raped me…After two months, they dragged me out of the room. The father of the Chinese man said, ‘Here is your husband. Now you are a married couple. Be nice to each other and build a happy family.’

In a recent interview, Basheer Ahmed, a 60-year-old partially handicapped man in Pakistan, explained how Chinese brokers duped him:

They said that they had a proposal from Chan Yen Ming, a Chinese national who had recently been converted to Islam, for my 24-year-old daughter Yamna Bibi. They said that Chan was ready to bear all expenses for the wedding and that he would even allow Bibi to work in China.

Ahmed would only find out later, he had been scammed into selling his daughter into a Chinese prostitution ring.

Testimonies of those who’ve escaped China and returned to Pakistan and Myanmar demonstrate that these women and girls are explicitly told by their “husbands” upon arrival that their sole purpose for being in China is to produce a baby and then leave, but with the child staying behind.

China’s more than three decades long policy of restricting each household to only one child had the consequence of creating a huge gender gap between the male and female population, a gap that continues to become greater each year, thus leaving many Chinese men without wives and the possibility of starting a family.

Ultimately, Pakistani and Myanmar girls are being shipped to China for one purpose only; to be raped and impregnated by Chinese men, with the presumed tacit approval of the Chinese government, in order to counter the potential for social and political unrest of a population that has seen the number of females dwindle as a result of China’s now relaxed “One Child Policy.”

Given the country of China is effectively the world’s largest social engineering experiment, with 9 nations of people forced into adopting the Communist Party’s nationalist project, while also emerging as the world’s first hi-tech totalitarian state, with every movement of its “undesirable” population tracked by a highly sophisticated network and ubiquitous IT infrastructure, it’s highly improbable this human trafficking program is taking place without Beijing’s guiding hand.

Literally nothing takes place within China’s borders without the direct knowledge and approval of the state, and when you also consider that there’s documented evidence showing Chinese authorities are forcing Uyghur Muslim women and girls into marrying Han Chinese men as part of its effort to complete its project of cultural genocide in Xinjiang, the likelihood of Beijing’s complicity or orchestration is ever greater.

When you consider Chinese Communist Party’s social contract with its people is under immediate threat, given the the drop in China’s exports, rising unemployment, the increasing difficulty the country’s university graduates have in finding employment, coupled with the fact the gender gap is depriving young Chinese men of finding a wife and starting a family, the likelihood Beijing is orchestrating the abduction and rape of Pakistani women to stave off at least one threat to the legitimacy of its rule is almost impossible to deny.

Finally, given China currently holds upwards of 3 million Muslims in its network of concentration camps, with thousands of testimonies pointing to torture, summary executions, forced marriage, adoption, and sterilization programs; and even the establishment of an organ matching database designed to sell the live organs of executed prisoners to foreign transplant recipients, there’s simply no heinous and grotesque violation of human rights and morality beyond Chinese Communist Party’s reach.

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CJ Werleman

Columnist for Middle East Eye. Host of Channel The Rage. Activist against Islamophobia. Read more about CJ here: www.patreon.com/cjwerleman