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  • Palestinian girl's murder highlights growing number of 'honor killings'

    11/20/2003 9:09:06 AM PST · by Ryan Bailey · 22 replies · 229+ views
    The Glassboro Whit ^ | 20 November, A.D. 2003 | Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson
    Palestinian girl's murder highlights growing number of 'honor killings' By Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson,Knight Ridder ABU QASH, West Bank - Rofayda Qaoud - raped by her brothers and impregnated - refused to commit suicide, her mother recalls, even after she bought the unwed teenager a razor with which to slit her wrists. So Amira Abu Hanhan Qaoud says she did what she believes any good Palestinian parent would: restored her family's "honor" through murder. Armed with a plastic bag, razor and wooden stick, Qaoud entered her sleeping daughter's room last Jan. 27. "Tonight you die, Rofayda," she told the girl, before...