Gang-rape of teenager ordered as punishment for brother's sins

ABCNewsOnline ^ | 7/2/02 | Anon

[What Is Ain't]

A teenage girl was gang-raped in central Pakistan last month as "punishment" meted out by a tribal jury for her brother's alleged affair with a woman of a higher tribe, police said.

A Panchayat, or tribal jury, ordered four men, including one of the jurists, to rape the 18-year-old girl on June 22 in the village of Meerwala.

Meerwala lies 610 kilometres south-west of the capital Islamabad.

District police chief Malik Saeed Awan said authorities were informed of the publicly-ordered gang-rape several days after the incident.

He said four men took turns to sexually assault the girl inside a room. She was then ordered to return home naked before 1,000 onlookers.

The rape was to avenge the "insult" caused to a family of the Mastoi tribe by the girl's brother's alleged "illicit affair" with a woman of a higher social standing.

The girl and her brother were from the lower Gujjar tribe.

The Panchayat had threatened that all women in the accused's family would be raped unless the 18-year-old submitted herself to the public gang rape.

Awan said police were taking action against members of the Panchayat.

Lawyers visiting the tribal area on Sunday urged the authorities to prosecute the rapists and the jury.

[zoyd]

Look, I took it as calling in the national guard to put out a campfire. If you wish to disagree, fine.

No one had replied to my argument in the FIRST place, Jhoffa. What campfire was there to put out? Can't a guy post a friggin' reference to another post without the whiny police chiming in?

[tpaine]

Get rest. Your head is swollen.

[Cultural Jihad]

We know that fantasarians like to try to elevate their ideology to the level of a revealed faith, which is ludicrous.

[Jhoffa_]

Can't a guy post a friggin' reference to another post without the apron string whiny police chiming in?

Well, I dunno.. You tell me.

[swarthyguy]

Amazing what you can learn here.

[Jhoffa_]

Get rest. Your head is swollen.

It must be all the coke..

Is there a Libertarian convention around?

[zoyd]

Well, I dunno.. You tell me.

Well, I guess the answer is 'NO', as long as you're around.

[Jhoffa_]

Well, I guess the answer is 'NO', as long as you're around.

Okay..

(of COURSE I am not the one flagging down my pals, shouting "look ! Look !" "ARF! ARF!")

[tpaine]

Supose you tell me the correct way to respond to baby talk, don?

-- Maybe I should have posted a few thousand words from Dr. Sprock?

[zoyd]

So you've decided that tpaine is now my 'pal'?

Continue your delusion. Not everything is some libertarian conspiracy.

[Cultural Jihad]

Do you feel that the gang rape of this woman is justified? yes or no?

Since President Bush has stated we are not at war against Islam, you might want to hound him, too, to see if because he is against anti-Muslim bigotry therefore he must support gang rape, as if gang rape and Islam are synonymous:

"Mr. President, Do you feel that the gang rape of this woman is justified? yes or no?"

[tpaine]

You think zoyd 'called me in'?

Weird fella. - Bit paranoid maybe?
-- I monitor CJ's posts now & then for the laughs -- and for his outrageous lies about libertarians.

--- Tonight, he was lying about his 'conservative' good will towards individuals who differ with his principles. -- And I was forming that retort as I was pinged.

[tpaine]

Huh? -- Uh sure CJ. - I guess...

[Jhoffa_]

You think zoyd 'called me in'?

It's a common tactic.. I see it allot.

If you don't believe then watch the "bushies" closely. I absolutely have to go now though.

[tpaine]

Druggie accusations are really lame, you puffed up clown.

[Jhoffa_]

Druggie accusations are really lame, you puffed up clown.

He muttered through his bong..

(night!)

[tpaine]

So its common, so what? -- You AFole drug warriors do it all the time too. BFD.

[nickcarraway]

You never heard the Oklahoma City bombers condemned? (also for being white supremacists). The president of the U.S. at that time blamed the bombing on Rush Limbaugh, and other right-wingers.

[LanaTurnerOverdrive]

Completely unbelievable. Yet....I believe it.

Off topic: That gruesome picture of the woman being assassinated in the soccer stadium....I've always wondered why a soccer field that had been closed down for six years still has fresh chalk lines demarking the penalty area. Curious.

[zoyd]

....I've always wondered why a soccer field that had been closed down for six years still has fresh chalk lines demarking the penalty area. Curious.

The best part is that international goodwill funds built that stadium, in the hope that a good soccer field would help reduce tensions in the area...