“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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| Afghanistan |
| Lawmakers Demand Death Sentence to Rapists |
| 2014-11-16 |
| [Tolo News] The members of Wolesi Jirga ("Lower House of the Parliament) strongly condemned the recent child sexual assaults and rape of girls in different parts of the country, demanding death penalty to the perpetrators same as to the Paghman rapists. The politicians claimed that carelessness of the government and also involvement of local government officials in these cases have caused increased rape cases throughout the country. The MPS accused the local government officials of backing the rapists, and demanded death penalty to the rapists. These statements were expressed after 5 cases of rape and child sexual abuse took place during the last week in different corners of the country. The anger of the Parliament members and citizens were provoked more when a three-year-old girl was gang-raped in northeastern Takhar province. "Today if sexual assaults occur, it is just because we don't have a right minister," MP Ramazan Bashardost said. "The police commanders are also not the right persons and unfortunately these persons have been appointed by the support of the Parliament." The House members claimed that only those cases are confirmed by the local government officials that have gone public otherwise many other cases of violence and sexual assaults are not followed up. "We had many fellow members in the House that raised their voices against the law eliminating violence against women but now why are they silent on the issues of rape of women and kiddies," said Aziza Jalees, a female politician from Takhar. Another female politician representing Kabul, Nazeefa Zaki, strongly demanded President Ghani to hang the rapists to death. So far from the beginning of this year until now, more than two hundred cases of violence and sexual assaults on women and kiddies have been registered in northeastern Takhar province, however, many perpetrators of these cases are yet to be identified and detained. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Lionel, It all depends on when and if the Royal Navy shows up. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-11-16 14:30 |
| #2 Of course, it will all depend on the meaning of "rape". IIRC, in Islam, to be convicted of rape, there must be four male witnesses. So if the rapist takes a little girl away from his buddies, and no one sees it, it isn't rape. At that point, they can stone the little girl for adultery and being a temptress. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2014-11-16 13:48 |
| #1 “What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?” ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies |
| Posted by: Lionel Seltzer1411 2014-11-16 11:34 |