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05-01-2008, 01:37 AM
Honor Killings On Rise in Iraq
Some examples:
A 19-year-old Iraqi was, according to her father, murdered by her own in-laws, who took her to a picnic area in Dokan and shot her seven times. Her crime was to have an unknown number on her mobile phone.
A 17-year-old girl was stabbed to death last month by her father for becoming infatuated with a British soldier serving in southern Iraq.
In Basra, police acknowledge that 15 women a month, a conservative figure, are murdered for breaching Islamic dress codes.
Du'a Khalil Aswad, 17, from Nineveh, was executed by stoning in front of mob of 2,000 men for falling in love with a boy outside her Yazidi tribe. Her father has revealed that none of those responsible had been prosecuted and his family remained "outcasts" in their own tribe.
In August last year, the body of 11-year-old Sara Jaffar Nimat was found in Khanaqin, Kurdistan, after she had been stoned and burnt to death.
Two brothers and a sister were kidnapped from their home near Kirkuk by gunmen in police uniforms. The brothers were beaten to death and the woman left in a critical condition after being informed that she must obey the rules of the "Islamic state".
A journalist was murdered in her home in Arbil, northern Iraq. Her husband, Mohammed Mustafa, stabbed her because she was in love with another man, according to local reports.
Women are being beheaded for taking their veil off. Self immolation is rising -- women are left with no choice.
Despite the outrage, recent calls to outlaw honour killings have been blocked by fundamentalists.
Said Houzan Mahmoud, who has had a fatwa on her head since raising a petition against the introduction of sharia law in Kurdistan. "If before there was one dictator persecuting people, now almost everyone is persecuting women.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/83710/
Some examples:
A 19-year-old Iraqi was, according to her father, murdered by her own in-laws, who took her to a picnic area in Dokan and shot her seven times. Her crime was to have an unknown number on her mobile phone.
A 17-year-old girl was stabbed to death last month by her father for becoming infatuated with a British soldier serving in southern Iraq.
In Basra, police acknowledge that 15 women a month, a conservative figure, are murdered for breaching Islamic dress codes.
Du'a Khalil Aswad, 17, from Nineveh, was executed by stoning in front of mob of 2,000 men for falling in love with a boy outside her Yazidi tribe. Her father has revealed that none of those responsible had been prosecuted and his family remained "outcasts" in their own tribe.
In August last year, the body of 11-year-old Sara Jaffar Nimat was found in Khanaqin, Kurdistan, after she had been stoned and burnt to death.
Two brothers and a sister were kidnapped from their home near Kirkuk by gunmen in police uniforms. The brothers were beaten to death and the woman left in a critical condition after being informed that she must obey the rules of the "Islamic state".
A journalist was murdered in her home in Arbil, northern Iraq. Her husband, Mohammed Mustafa, stabbed her because she was in love with another man, according to local reports.
Women are being beheaded for taking their veil off. Self immolation is rising -- women are left with no choice.
Despite the outrage, recent calls to outlaw honour killings have been blocked by fundamentalists.
Said Houzan Mahmoud, who has had a fatwa on her head since raising a petition against the introduction of sharia law in Kurdistan. "If before there was one dictator persecuting people, now almost everyone is persecuting women.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/83710/