Danielel Plesser
SOC202
October 31, 2008, 4:16 PM
A pregnant seventeen year old girl in Pakistan was mauled by dogs and then shot dead in March (though the details of the story are only coming out now). The girl’s family claims that this was the doing of her in-laws over a dispute of land. Following her death, the tribal elders accused the girl of having illicit relations with men other than her husband, and the girl’s family claims that this is an excuse the in-laws are using to avoid responsibility for the girl’s death. Though honour killings (jirgas) were banned in the southern Sindh province in 2004, the article says human activists claim that they continue to be held.
This is one of those articles where I cannot find a single thing on which I can shed a positive light. Whatever the reason for her death, it was an atrocious murder and one that no family should have to experience. She was a young girl, and regardless of the reason (be it a family dispute or an honour killing), the use of dogs as a killing tool like that just makes me sick. I’m upset for the animals, the girl, the family, everyone. The activist groups may be horrified, but nothing was said about any improvements being made in the area, and that makes this article a heavy one.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j4rJrV0ah18m1X6p2QIMOXaUBXtA
2 comments:
Yes I agree this is extremely upsetting. It's horrible that anyone can do such a thing to another human being and they also treated the animals more as property than living things.
This is absolutely horrible. I think that the inlaws of the girl should be tried for murder. The fact that anybody could do that to some one (especially a pregnant teenager) is horrific.
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