Does anyone remember that one? There were others also, and remember that happend right here!
Even if the daughter or sister is raped, it is blamed on the girl so she is the one who is punished.
The Albanian code of Lek Dukagjini is not the same; in fact it expressly prohibits the killing of females (although a husband beating his wife is no problem!) There is no such thing as honor killings of females--the females have no "honor" in the code so an injury or insult to one clan can only be recompensed with the blood from another male. That is why when a clan is "in blood", the females work the fields and do the shopping and so on--there is no danger to them. Edith Durham in her books about Albania describes how females walked untouched thru the middle of firefights between opposing clans.
Of historical interest, Duke John (Dukagjini), who reputedly wrote the code, was a Christian Albanian who fought alongside Skanderbeg--the Albanian national hero--against the Ottomans. His domain was in the remote northern Albanian mountains, to include portions of what is now Kosovo. The code was intended to instill some law in areas where there was none.
The Albanian code of Lek Dukagjini is not the same; in fact it expressly prohibits the killing of females (although a husband beating his wife is no problem!) There is no such thing as honor killings of females--the females have no "honor" in the code so an injury or insult to one clan can only be recompensed with the blood from another male. That is why when a clan is "in blood", the females work the fields and do the shopping and so on--there is no danger to them. Edith Durham in her books about Albania describes how females walked untouched thru the middle of firefights between opposing clans.
Of historical interest, Duke John (Dukagjini), who reputedly wrote the code, was a Christian Albanian who fought alongside Skanderbeg--the Albanian national hero--against the Ottomans. His domain was in the remote northern Albanian mountains, to include portions of what is now Kosovo. The code was intended to instill some law in areas where there was none.