Thursday, March 29, 2012

The World Just Keeps...

...turning round and round, while everything seems to stay the same:

Former Pakistani dancing girl commits suicide 12 years after horrific acid attack which left her looking 'not human'
"At the time of her attack in May 2000, her ex-husband Bilal Khar was the man accused of entering her mother's house and pouring acid over Younus's face as she slept."
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"Her nose was almost completely melted and she has since undergone 39 separate surgical procedures to repair her disfigured face over the past decade."
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"...on March 17 she took her own life, after leaving a message saying she was committing suicide over the silence of law on the atrocities and the insensitivity of Pakistani rulers."
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The horrific attack also burned off her hair, fused her lips, blinded her in one eye, destroyed her left ear and melted her breasts.

After being rushed to hospital she said, 'My face is a prison to me', while her distraught young son said at the time, 'This is not my mother'."
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"More than 8,500 acid attacks, forced marriages and other forms of violence against women were reported in Pakistan in 2011, according to The Aurat Foundation, a women's rights organization."
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"Tehmina Durrani, the ex-wife of Bilal Khar's father, had become an advocate for Younus after the attack, and said the acid attack victim had pledged to bring her attacker to justice when she had recovered.
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"Durrani said Younus' case should be a reminder that the Pakistani government needs to do much more to prevent acid attacks and other forms of violence against women, and also help the victims.

'I think this whole country should be extremely embarrassed that a foreign country took responsibility for a Pakistani citizen for 13 years because we could give her nothing, not justice, not security,' said Durrani."
Ukrainian girl dies after horror gang rape
"A Ukrainian teenage girl died Thursday three weeks after being set on fire in a gang rape attack by youths which shocked the nation and raised doubts about the competence of police.

Oksana Makar, 18, was raped by three men in their early 20s, strangled with a cord, burned and left for dead in an attack in the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolayiv, investigators have said.

The victim was found by a passer-by after she was dumped by her attackers at an abandoned construction site. She was hospitalised in a critical condition with burns over 55 percent of her body, requiring the amputation of one of her arms."
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"She was strangled and they (the attackers) thought she had died. So they burned her. She was lying there 10 hours in the freezing cold and inhaled the by-products of the burning," Fistal said."
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"If convicted, the three face between 15 years to life in jail, although the brutality of the crime has renewed public debate about the use of the death penalty which was abolished in Ukraine over a decade ago."

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2 Comments:

Blogger Dave in Pa. said...

In the case of the Pakistani woman, here is 1 case in which I'd agree with a Sharia eye-for-an-eye sentence of doing the same acid treatment on her ex-husband.

March 30, 2012 9:39 am  
Blogger Louise said...

Well, I'm not sure Sharia would extract and eye-for-an-eye if the perp is male. They might force her to remarry her ex-husband, tho.

March 30, 2012 11:46 am  

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