Just damn.....
Posted on 10/03/2008 9:13:13 AM PDT by forkinsocket
Wives, daughters, girls are punished by having acid thrown on them, permanently disfiguring them. The government prohibits the sale of the corrosive liquids, but they are easily found on the market. The phenomenon is spreading. The victims now include children and adult males.
Dhaka (AsiaNews) - Women in Bangladesh suffer marginalization. And the violence against them, at home and outside, continues to grow. Recently, a new weapon has been added: acid, which disfigures their faces and bodies.
Parul's husband is 30 years old. In 2000, he disfigured her by throwing acid into her face, because her relatives had not paid the agreed dowry. The victim's mother presented a charge a few months ago, because until then she was unable to leave her daughter's side, who was always in various hospitals. The husband - who everyone knows to be guilty - is a free man.
Nasima has an 11-year-old mentally retarded daughter who was raped. She accused the attackers two years ago, and since then she has received continual threats. An acid attack left her torso and back devastated. Now she promises that she will not charge her daughter's attackers, and will withdraw her previous accusation.
Domestic and international awareness-raising campaigns led the government to pass, in 2002, a strict law against the custom of throwing acid into the faces of young women for economic reasons, or because of jealousy, or because they resist sexual advances. After a certain reduction in these cases, they are now on the increase again. There were 1,428 from 2002-2007, 116 cases from January to August 2007, which rose to 125 in the same period this year. Since 2002, there have been only 190 trials, in which 254 defendants have been sentenced: 11 to death, 89 to labor camps. Authorities are unable to say how many of the sentences have been carried out, and how many of those sentenced are in fact in prison.
According to the law, acid can be bought only with a license, but anyone is able to procure it on the open market, at a price of about 60 euro cents per kilo: this is enough to disfigure a person, often completely "melting" the throat, trachea, esophagus, with horrible suffering.
Most recently, the victims have not been only young women, but also children, out of vengeance against their parents, and men, especially over land disputes and romantic rivalries.
Just damn.....
Who are we to judge their equally valid culture? After all, we don’t allow women to be members at the Augusta Country Club. That’s far worse.
ROP.
You’re not allowed to criticize the religion of peace, don’t you know?
Nothing new. I read about using vitrol in such an attack back in the 1960’s from a book called THE SARACEN BLADE, set in the 11 or 12th centurys.
I’m sure the UN human rights commision is on it and oh ya, Kim Candy is right behind ‘em.
No one world culture is 'better' than any other. Just different, you bigots.
Why, American cars and swimming pools kill and maim tens of thousands of human beings more than just some acid splashed in a child's face in Bangladesh, you know. You're just cherry picking "bad" news from the third world and ignoring all the good that comes out of Bangladesh.
Why aren't we talking about American cars and swimming pools and all the disfigurement they cause?
Racists!
That's about all I can come up with too ... (shakes head ... walks away)
The United States will be a MUCH better place to live once we have accepted Islamic Law...
...and the Civilian Security Force which will enforce it.
How much do you want to bet the “Security Force” uniform will include bow-ties?
Could have been worse...they could have put underwear on their heads!
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MSNBC will carry this story when underwear areput on their heads.
Um... New????
Someone doesn’t know their history. “Vitriol throwing” wasn’t always a figure of speech; the throwing of acid used to be quite popular among the criminal class in England in the Victorian era.
Sorry. This is very old. I first read about “acid throwing” in a Sherlock Holmes story...
That said, the villains that do this sort of thing were disgusting then and the are disgusting now.
BTW, My wife is Filipina, and she says you couldn't pay her enough to live there again, even though she was from an upscale community. Even as one of the better 3rd world countries, it's a mess over there.
Actually, the cure for this is to give the perps a nice looooooong soak of particular body parts in the same substance.
A week or so should do it.
“...and the Civilian Security Force which will enforce it.
How much do you want to bet the “Security Force” uniform will include bow-ties?”
“””D.C. Hires Nation of Islam Guards for SE Complex; Public Housing Chief Cites Patrols’ Success at Other Developments in Nation
From: The Washington Post | Date: May 4, 1995| Author: Vernon Loeb | Copyright 1995 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information
The D.C. Department of Public and Assisted Housing has hired Nation of Islam security guards to patrol a public housing complex on Capitol Hill, hoping that their highly disciplined ranks can regain control of the drug-infested development.
Jasper F. Burnette, the department’s interim director, said yesterday that Nation of Islam Security Agency Inc. has been given a $30,000 emergency contract to provide round-the-clock security for the next four weeks at Potomac Gardens, 12th and G streets SE.
His disclosure came as attorneys representing the Barry administration and public housing tenants ...””
Yes. I remember that.
Kinda scary if you start making the “right” connections, isn’t it?
Very true.
I know a lady where I work who was beaten within an inch of her life and had acid thrown in her face by her ex. He isn’t muslim and neither is she.
She’s never fully recovered, but she did get to meet President Bush as some kind of survivor thing.
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