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Lament for The Lost - Fate Unknown


Lament for The Lost - Fate Unknown
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Copyright: Andy Walsh (Cloud__Warrior) Silver Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 47 W: 8 N: 31] (267)
Genre: Gens
Média: Couleur
Date de prise de vue: 2006-09-03
Catégories: Vie quotidienne, Evénement, Moment décisif
Appareil photographique: Canon EOS 300D, Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
Exposition: f/5.6, 1/100 secondes
Versions: version originale
Thème(s): My Portraits [view contributor(s)]
Date de soumission: 2008-05-04 2:36
Vue: 927
Points: 6
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Not the best picture I've posted but he story this tells is so very sad.

Been to Vietnam and Sapa 4 times now, this image taken during my third trip. I take copies of portaits I've taken as gifts for the friends Ive made on the previous trips. The young ladie second from the left made a comment about me not having a picture for her so I made sure she was in some pictures this time.

Returned to Sapa at the end of March this year with copies of this picture to give out. 3 of the girls I found easily but they all told the same story of the girl second from left. She had become a victim of people trafficing forcibly taken from her village late last year by motorbike to places unknown, her fate is unknown. Others are taken by guile offered trips to the bright lights and big cities of Lao Cai or Hanoi and are not seen again.

The Hmong I have spoken to about this say about a dozen girls have tkane from Lao Chai over the past 5 years and other girls from other villages are also being taken in the valley nearly always Hmong. They believe they are taken to China to a life of prostitution. Note sure if the Hmong are reporting this to the Viet police in the area but little seems to have been done to prevent further instances of this.

It seems the improving road networks and infrastructure in North Vietnam has also brought some disadvantages to the ethnic minorities around Sapa. :*(
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Thanks for sharing this. A very sad story indeed. I have very fond memories of the people in Sapa from my 2003 visit and I hate to think of these things happening to the wonderful young people who I met there(or anyone for that matter).

Hi Andy,

Thanks for this interesting post. It's a sad, but unfortunately not unfamiliar story. Better infrastructure brings modernity and that is never only a good thing, as the minorities' splendid (or not so splendid) isolation is sure to be destroyed. And we as tourists are a part of that. I heard Sapa is now also on the SE Asia sex tourism trail...

I hope for the best for your friend in the picture, but I fear the worst.

Benny

hello ANDY.
belle composition des filles de SAPA!
celle ci appartiennent a la tribut des HMONGS!
amitiés....aldo.

crazy, I met that girl second from the right when I was in Sapa a month ago. Interesting to find a picture of her on the internet! Sad story about her friend though :(

thanks for posting the pic

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