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| India-Pakistan |
| Meerwala gang rapists to get longer necks... |
| 2002-08-31 |
| A Pakistani court on Sunday sentenced six men to death for the gang rape of a woman on the orders of a traditional village jury. Defense lawyer Mohammad Yaqub told Reuters that eight other men were acquitted in the trial before a special anti-terrorism court in the Punjab provincial town of Dera Ghazi Khan. Mukhtaran Mai, the 30-year old victim, was not present when the court announced the decision amid heavy security. Probably afraid one of her neighbors would rape her or kill her... Yaqub said four men were sentenced to death for committing the rape and two others for serving on the village jury that authorized the crime. The remaining eight have been acquitted. "We will appeal," he added. "The bitch was askin' for it. Y'shoulda seen the way she was dressed! An' my clients wudn't even there. It was somebody else. Y'ask me, it was her own fam'ly did it to her, then blamed my clients..." Yaqub named the four sentenced to death for the rape as brothers Allah Ditta and Abdul Khaliq, Fayyaz Hussain and Ghulam Farid. The two jurors were Faiz Bakhsh and Ramzan Bichar. Good thing. Their necks are way too short... All the eight acquitted had also served on the jury. "All we did was watch! What's wrong with that?" |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |