Chara G. Garmon
11/7/08
SOC 202
Global Crime
The United Nations confirmed on Tuesday that a Somali girl who was recently stoned to death was thirteen-years-old. Islamist militants publicly stoned the victim in what was the first public killing in over two years. The young girl was accused of adultery and witnesses believed that the girl was twenty-three years of age at the time. The girl had been accused of adultery after she had been raped by three-men while on her way to visit her grandmother in Mogadishu, Somalia. After she was raped, she sought protection from authorities who then accused her of adultery. Her family also tried to report the crime to the Shabab militia, which controls Kismayu, the location where she was killed. Her name was Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow. Local leaders claimed she was guilty under a legal code from the Koran, the Shariah. Duhulow was stoned by fifty men in a stadium with over one-thousand people watching.
This is extremely saddening. We think it is so easy to report a crime and be protected by the government. In this case, the reporting of such an incident cost her her life. Women and girls are so vulnerable and taken advantage of in war-torn countries such as this one. It’s so unfortunate that her life was taken but the fact that it was taken in one of the most brutal ways imaginable is just terrible. U.N. organizations have taken great measures to try to protect women and girls but they cannot protect all of them unfortunately. The investigation into the life of Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow is probably just one of many cases like this that have taken place. What a sad article.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/world/africa/05somalia.html?ref=africa
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