During this period, more than 900 people (mostly women and children) were absent from the locality, with unspecified destinations.

The report also cites that from 2016-2020, Lai Chau authorities verified 139 victims of human trafficking. All were sold to China.

Besides Lai Chau, Ha Giang province has emerged as an area with many victims of cross-border human trafficking.

Recently, human trafficking to Cambodia has become worse. The case of 42 Vietnamese fleeing from a Cambodian casino is under investigation and being handled by forces of the two countries.

In the first half of 2022, Vietnamese agencies investigated 33 cases, with 75 people committing human trafficking. They also finished investigations and transferred 17 cases to the People's Procuracy. As many as 66 victims of human trafficking were received, verified, rescued, and supported.

The Ministry of Public Security has determined that the victims of human trafficking crimes are mainly people in remote and isolated areas. Most of them have difficult circumstances, lack of knowledge and life skills, and believe in the promise of stable jobs, high incomes...

Some common tricks of human traffickers include: taking advantage of social networks to make friends, get acquainted, pretend to be in love, or acting as brokers for illegal foreign marriages. Human traffickers also target those who want to sell their organs at a low price and then sell them to sick people at a high price.

They also take advantage of the lax management of families and schools to entice victims to travel or to work far away with a high income. By these tricks, they sell many young girls to restaurants, karaoke bars or into prostitution and forced labor organizations.

Human traffickers also take advantage of sending people to work abroad to entice victims to work abroad illegally... and then control the victim, demanding ransom or stealing wages.

They also use social networks to approach young women to take them cross the border to China, Laos, Cambodia, and then sell them as wives, to prostitution places and casinos in Cambodia and Myanmar.

Many Vietnamese workers were brought to Cambodia in the hope of changing their lives. According to the authorities, these human trafficking rings are led by Chinese, with the participation of Vietnamese and Cambodians.

In order to crack down on cross-border human trafficking rings, the authorities have implemented a program on prevention and combat of human trafficking for the period of 2021-2025, with an orientation to 2030.

At the same time, Vietnam is building a dossier for accession to the Protocol on combating illegal migration of migrants by land, sea and air.

Doan Bong