I saw that More4 was showing their documentary “Bride Kidnapping” again, so I decided to catch it but what I couldn’t really bear to see it through to the end.

I’m not as wide-read as I thought because until I moved to England, I never knew some cultures condone kidnapping women and marrying them off to complete strangers. Arranged marriage is already ‘far out’ for me, but this is truly baffling.

Even when Russia controlled Krygyztan, this practise was never fully-scrapped. It was made illegal but meek women don’t speak up, they marry the kidnapper, have kids & become “happy & content”. Apparently some of those who do walk away, ends up dead anyway. They commit suicide because of the social stigma that comes with being abducted & raped.

Now that Krygyztan is free of the State, some people even claim that bringing bride kidnapping “back” (as though it went away) is a declaration of their cultural identity.

I am an openminded person & I normally don’t frown upon other culture’s norms. But deliberately curtailing someone’s human rights & stepping on their dignity cannot be seen as decent nor acceptable in any modern society.

The documentary filmed a victim being forced by the man’s female relatives to wear their headdress. There were a lot of thinly-veiled threats like she’s not being hurt yet but the old woman might become rough if the teener continues being “stubborn”. Within the family, another girl coercing the teener claimed she was kidnapped, too, but she’s happy & she also wants the teener to sit down & eat.

I switched off after that. To me, this practise is as abhorrent as the female circumsion in Africa. It certainly makes you wonder why Krygyztan still have women.

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