Kazakhstan Bride Kidnapping Caught On Camera: Girl Screams, Dragged To Wedding She Doesn’t Want (Video)

A couple takes wedding photos on the waterfront with a backdrop of Hong Kong's business Central district June 18, 2014. Hong Kong holds a controversial "referendum" on democracy on Friday, a prelude to an escalating campaign of dissent that could shut down the former British colony's financial district and further anger China's Communist Party leaders. Picture taken June 18, 2014. REUTERS/Bobby Yip REUTERS/Bobby Yip

A video of a Kazakh woman is making the rounds now in the Internet. Populations around the world are shocked to witness how the screaming and crying girl was abducted and dragged into a wedding she doesn't want in Kazakhstan.

The video starts with the Kazakh girl desperately being pulled out from a car by other women as she screamed and yelled at them, obviously saying she doesn't want the forced marriage arrangement about to take place that very same time and day. The next thing, three men had forcibly carried her, along a special bridal carpet, into the house of the man who wants to marry her in Kazakhstan's central Akmola region. All these as a woman threw flower petals and confetti on her.

The video was aptly titled "Stealing the Bride." It showed a sad yet barbaric tradition that continues to exist in several regions, including in central Asia, Africa and South America.

The girl tried all she can to break free from her looming distasteful marriage arrangement. She managed to push back on the doorframe of her future husband's house, before she got ganged up by a group that eventually hustled her inside.

According to The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the motives for kidnapping and the level of female consent vary greatly from case to case and over the years. Before, brides get kidnapped either because the boy's family was too poor to pay the bridewealth or the girl's father did not consent to the marriage.

"Today, it is more common for a bride to be kidnapped to speed up the process of getting married and/or to reduce the costs. Kidnap marriages are less expensive and less complicated than the most common alternative--an arranged marriage. In many cases, a bride is kidnapped because the groom is worried that another suitor will marry his chosen bride first. In a few cases, a bride is kidnapped because she is already pregnant with the groom's child. In the case of non-consensual bride kidnapping, most brides are kidnapped because the groom knows that the girl would not otherwise agree to the marriage."

Anfisa Zuyeva, a women's rights activist in Kazakhstan, said the practice is barbaric. But unfortunately, the incidences of the barbaric bride kidnapping is growing in Kazakhstan. Moreover, she said perpetrators are rarely dealt with by the legal system.

She said the families of the bride often agree to the wishes of the groom because he pays them a lot of money in exchange for the girl's freedom. But it is a "barbaric and evil practice that forces young girls into loveless marriages with men they hardly know."

"It is an outdated and horrific tradition which has no place in modern Kazakhstan," Zuyeva said.

The horrific bride kidnapping below.