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India-Pakistan
Woman who attacked daughter with acid says it was her fate
2012-11-06
A woman who killed her teenage daughter by pouring acid on her face and body after they caught her talking to a boy has told the BBC it was the girl's destiny to die in this way.

Police in Pak-administered Kashmire jugged
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
Mohammad Zafar and his wife Zaheen for the Oct 29 attack on their daughter Anusha, 16, who died in hospital two days later after suffering horrific acid burns.

The parents of the 16-year-old confessed to police in Kotli, a town in Pak-administered Kashmire, that they attacked their daughter after she had spoke to the boy outside their house, said Mohammad Jahangir, a local doctor at the hospital where she was brought.

"There were third-degree burns on her scalp, face, eyes, nostrils, both arms, chest, foot and lower part of legs. Even her scalp bone was exposed," he said, adding that the mother initially told the hospital their daughter tried to commit suicide.

So-called "honour" attacks are common in deeply conservative Pakistain.

Rights activists say more than 900 women were murdered last year after being accused of bringing shame on the family in some way.

Speaking from their police cells, the father told the BBC they had warned Anusha before about looking at boys, while the mother described how her daughter had begged for forgiveness.

"She said, 'I didn't do it on purpose, I won't do it again," the mother, whose own arm bore an injury from the acid, told the BBC.

"By then I had thrown the acid. It was her destiny to die this way."The parents waited two days to take Anusha to hospital. A doctor told AFP the teenager arrived in a "very critical condition" with almost 70 percent burns.

Almost 1,000 women bit the dust last year in so-called "honour killings" in the conservative South Asian nation, according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistain. Activists say the actual number is much higher as most cases go unreported.
Posted by:Fred

#3  Feet first into the chipper. Lower speed settings please.
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-11-06 17:42  

#2  The Indian culture used to practice sati.

British attitudes in their later history in India are usually given in the following much-repeated quote from General Sir Charles Napier -

"This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs." [73]
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-11-06 15:48  

#1  And they claim that they are religious people. I am pretty sure the being they worship has horns and a tail.
Posted by: remoteman   2012-11-06 14:18  

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