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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 14171" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #800080"><a href="http://www.canada.com/vancouver/theprovince/news/story.html?id=a392f07a-6807-43be-83f1-b834f9568cf3" target="_blank">http://www.canada.com/vancouver/theprovince/news/story.html?id=a392f07a-6807-43be-83f1-b834f9568cf3</a></span></span></span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff">Abandoned Brides: A Province Special Investigation</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff">Canada's Shame India's Sorrow</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff">Fabian Dawson</span><span style="color: #0000ff">The Province</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff">October 16, 2005</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff"><img src="http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/12465/1d/www.canada.com/images/spacer.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></strong><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #0000ff"></span></p></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #0000ff"></span></p></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"></p></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"></p><p></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff">In Punjab's Doaba region everyone knows someone who is married to an Indo-Canadian.</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff">It is also there that everyone knows someone whose marriage to an Indo-Canadian was a scam.</span></strong></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff">For the past two months a team from The Province and the Calgary Herald has been investigating the scandal of India's abandoned brides -- a phenomenon that is being likened to organized crime.</span></strong></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff">The numbers are staggering, the stories are tragic and the social stigma attached to the victims has led to thousands of women living in misery.</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff">Our team comprised writer Valerie Fortney and photographer Ted Rhodes of The Calgary Herald, writer Michael Roberts and me from The Province.</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff">We travelled to the heart of the problem in Punjab's rural villages to interview dozens of abandoned brides, some with children who have yet to see their Indo-Canadian fathers.</span></strong></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff">In many cases, an obsession to go abroad had made the women easy targets for greedy, heartless men.</span></strong></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff">In others, the daughters were essentially "sold" by parents hoping to follow them to Canada.</span></strong></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff">In most, the families said they had been financially ruined by their daughters' dowries -- an ancestral custom officially abolished but one that prevails in practice and is a sacred duty.</span></strong></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff">The extent of the social tragedy is reflected in official studies that say 30,000 women in India have been left behind by their overseas-based husbands, referred to as Non-Resident Indians.</span></strong></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff">Our team also visited bustling police stations, the marbled hallways of India's officialdom and the fortified Canadian High Commission in New Delhi to find out what was being done about this scourge.</span></strong></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff">We found no evidence of any co-ordinated crackdown.</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff">Exasperated police, faced with hundreds of such cases, were resorting to a mix of threats and family counselling sessions to reunite couples or at least get some of the dowries back.</span></strong></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff">The Punjab state and Indian federal authorities, while acknowledging the problem, had commissioned study after study. All were gathering dust on bureaucratic shelves.</span></strong></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff">Canadian diplomats, well aware of the scams, were powerless to act.</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff">Back in Canada, our team tracked down some of the alleged runaway grooms in B.C., Alberta and Ontario to hear their side.</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff">Some were furious, some hid and some talked.</span></strong></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff">We met with members of the Indo-Canadian community, who provided valuable insight, lauded us for tackling the subject and reminded us that most weddings between Non-Resident Indians and Indian nationals are legitimate.</span></strong></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff">Our series, called "Abandoned Brides: Canada's Shame, India's Sorrow," begins today and runs through Thursday.</span></strong></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff">You will meet some of the victims and hear their stories. We will introduce you to people who are fighting on their behalf, community activists here who offer solutions and Sikh religious leaders who say the time has come to act.</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff">We hope that our series, and your feedback, will make a change.</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff">We would like to hear from you. Please e-mail <a href="mailto:mroberts@png.canwest.com">mroberts@png.canwest.com</a> or <a href="mailto:vfortney@theherald.canwest.com">vfortney@theherald.canwest.com</a></span></strong></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #0000ff">© The Vancouver Province 2005</span></span></p><p></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 14171, member: 884"] [B][SIZE=4][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][COLOR=#800080][URL="http://www.canada.com/vancouver/theprovince/news/story.html?id=a392f07a-6807-43be-83f1-b834f9568cf3"]http://www.canada.com/vancouver/theprovince/news/story.html?id=a392f07a-6807-43be-83f1-b834f9568cf3[/URL][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][SIZE=4] [B][COLOR=#0000ff]Abandoned Brides: A Province Special Investigation[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#0000ff]Canada's Shame India's Sorrow[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#0000ff]Fabian Dawson[/COLOR][COLOR=#0000ff]The Province[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#0000ff]October 16, 2005[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#0000ff][IMG]http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/12465/1d/www.canada.com/images/spacer.gif[/IMG][/COLOR][/B][CENTER][COLOR=#0000ff] [/COLOR] [/CENTER] [B][COLOR=#0000ff]In Punjab's Doaba region everyone knows someone who is married to an Indo-Canadian.[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#0000ff]It is also there that everyone knows someone whose marriage to an Indo-Canadian was a scam.[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#0000ff]For the past two months a team from The Province and the Calgary Herald has been investigating the scandal of India's abandoned brides -- a phenomenon that is being likened to organized crime.[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#0000ff]The numbers are staggering, the stories are tragic and the social stigma attached to the victims has led to thousands of women living in misery.[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#0000ff]Our team comprised writer Valerie Fortney and photographer Ted Rhodes of The Calgary Herald, writer Michael Roberts and me from The Province.[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#0000ff]We travelled to the heart of the problem in Punjab's rural villages to interview dozens of abandoned brides, some with children who have yet to see their Indo-Canadian fathers.[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#0000ff]In many cases, an obsession to go abroad had made the women easy targets for greedy, heartless men.[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#0000ff]In others, the daughters were essentially "sold" by parents hoping to follow them to Canada.[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#0000ff]In most, the families said they had been financially ruined by their daughters' dowries -- an ancestral custom officially abolished but one that prevails in practice and is a sacred duty.[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#0000ff]The extent of the social tragedy is reflected in official studies that say 30,000 women in India have been left behind by their overseas-based husbands, referred to as Non-Resident Indians.[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#0000ff]Our team also visited bustling police stations, the marbled hallways of India's officialdom and the fortified Canadian High Commission in New Delhi to find out what was being done about this scourge.[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#0000ff]We found no evidence of any co-ordinated crackdown.[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#0000ff]Exasperated police, faced with hundreds of such cases, were resorting to a mix of threats and family counselling sessions to reunite couples or at least get some of the dowries back.[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#0000ff]The Punjab state and Indian federal authorities, while acknowledging the problem, had commissioned study after study. All were gathering dust on bureaucratic shelves.[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#0000ff]Canadian diplomats, well aware of the scams, were powerless to act.[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#0000ff]Back in Canada, our team tracked down some of the alleged runaway grooms in B.C., Alberta and Ontario to hear their side.[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#0000ff]Some were furious, some hid and some talked.[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#0000ff]We met with members of the Indo-Canadian community, who provided valuable insight, lauded us for tackling the subject and reminded us that most weddings between Non-Resident Indians and Indian nationals are legitimate.[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#0000ff]Our series, called "Abandoned Brides: Canada's Shame, India's Sorrow," begins today and runs through Thursday.[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#0000ff]You will meet some of the victims and hear their stories. We will introduce you to people who are fighting on their behalf, community activists here who offer solutions and Sikh religious leaders who say the time has come to act.[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#0000ff]We hope that our series, and your feedback, will make a change.[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#0000ff]We would like to hear from you. Please e-mail [EMAIL="mroberts@png.canwest.com"]mroberts@png.canwest.com[/EMAIL] or [EMAIL="vfortney@theherald.canwest.com"]vfortney@theherald.canwest.com[/EMAIL][/COLOR][/B] [B][CENTER][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]© The Vancouver Province 2005[/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER] [/B] [/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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