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Haryana in northern India faces a severe shortage of women. To address it, women from poorer regions are sold there as brides.

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00:00Nargis was sold by her own parents.
00:02A much older man paid less than the equivalent of 400 euros to marry her.
00:20Nargis was trafficked to the northern Indian state of Haryana.
00:24Many men here pay thousands of rupees to buy a wife.
00:27Sex-selective abortions or killings of female babygirls have led to a shortage of women.
00:33Thus, women from poor backgrounds like Nargis are sold there as prides.
00:51Nargis didn't know she was marrying a much older man who already had two children.
00:55In her arranged marriage, she regularly experiences domestic violence.
01:00You would kill people by the people who saved their lives.
01:04You would kill people with their husbands.
01:04Why don't it?
01:05Let us kill them with their sons.
01:11We will kill them in a lot of days, even after life.
01:23Every child has lost.
01:26Then we will kill them.
01:27We will kill them again.
01:27Once they pass on, we will kill people from you.

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