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Girl stoned to death
Cellphone videos have appeared on the Internet showing an Iraqi mob stoning and kicking to death a 17-year-old girl after she offended her minority community by eloping with a Muslim man.
Doaa Khalil Aswad was a member of northern Iraq?s Yazidi religious sect but, according to local officials, she was murdered on April 7, by her brothers and uncles after she allegedly converted to Islam and run away with her lover.
In the video - on the Kurdish website Jebar.Info and rapidly spreading on the Internet - Aswad is shown lying in the road as about 10 men kick her and throw a large lump of rock or concrete at her head.
She is surrounded by an enormous crowd jockeying for a good view of the ritualistic killing. About nine men take part in the attack, including, it is thought, members of the girl?s family.
To any father of a daughter, that a helpless girl should be set upon with such cowardly savagery is beyond comprehension. One can barely imagine her terror.
It is a profoundly disturbing spectacle. One man kicks her hard between the legs as she screams in agony. Du?a tries to lift herself up, but someone hurls a concrete block into her face.
Another man stamps on her face. Someone kicks her in the stomach. Police officers stand idly by, some of them apparently enjoying the spectacle as much as anyone else.
www.gulf-times.com
-:- another bloody honour killing; unpunished murder! this is a horribly sad story !
May Dooa Khalid Aswad's soul rest in peace.
Doaa Khalil Aswad was a member of northern Iraq?s Yazidi religious sect but, according to local officials, she was murdered on April 7, by her brothers and uncles after she allegedly converted to Islam and run away with her lover.
In the video - on the Kurdish website Jebar.Info and rapidly spreading on the Internet - Aswad is shown lying in the road as about 10 men kick her and throw a large lump of rock or concrete at her head.
She is surrounded by an enormous crowd jockeying for a good view of the ritualistic killing. About nine men take part in the attack, including, it is thought, members of the girl?s family.
To any father of a daughter, that a helpless girl should be set upon with such cowardly savagery is beyond comprehension. One can barely imagine her terror.
It is a profoundly disturbing spectacle. One man kicks her hard between the legs as she screams in agony. Du?a tries to lift herself up, but someone hurls a concrete block into her face.
Another man stamps on her face. Someone kicks her in the stomach. Police officers stand idly by, some of them apparently enjoying the spectacle as much as anyone else.
www.gulf-times.com
-:- another bloody honour killing; unpunished murder! this is a horribly sad story !
May Dooa Khalid Aswad's soul rest in peace.
Comments on this journal
The women are pledged to campaign against the entrenched beliefs which lead to such senseless deaths -and the fact that the people who commit these crimes are not regarded as murderers, but as heroes of the community.
According to Ms Nammi, there have been an estimated 10,000 cases of honour killings in the Kurdistan region in the past decade. Ms Nammi has the support of Amnesty International.
Under Iraqi law, the punishment for anyone found guilty of an honour killing is just 6 months in prison.
"These peeps are just taking the p...ss" *:
?There is an epidemic of so-called honour killings. It is almost routine in Iraq. And this is utterly unacceptable.
Nothing is done for preventing these murders of women in Iraq.?
Kate Allen, Amnesty International UK Director said:
?This young girl?s murder is truly abhorrent and her killers have even been brought to justice,?
Astagher Allah!