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Bangladesh
Acid violence on wane across country
2010-09-01
Good to see B-desh doing something about it. Bad that they have the attacks in the first place.
Sick and thirsty housewife Popy Rani was too weak to move and has been failing to manage a glass of water. She sought help from her husband Prodip Bonik. Cruel Prodip brought a glass of acid for her. She drank the same in good faith, but landed in a hospital in a critical condition.(BSS, Dhaka)

After struggling many months for life Popy somehow managed to survive. And Acid Survivors Foundation (ASF) took over the responsibility of her. Subsequently mother of the victim filed a case against criminal Pradip.

According to available statistics, a total of 50 people suffered injuries in acid attacks in the first four moths of the current year (2010). While 145 people fell victims to such attacks in the year 2009, 179 in 2008, 192 in 2007.
Posted by:Steve White

#5  How does anybody even think this stuff up? The fact that it happens often enough to be termed "acid-violence" is mind-blowing. There is something very wrong with the culture that produces it.
Posted by: Sgt. D.T.   2010-09-01 22:17  

#4  Let them seethe all they want, so long as they keep it inside their own skulls. Not to mention that society's forceful response to various outrages does have a mysterious way of changing what goes on inside some people's skulls. Not that crime can be abolished altogether, but it can be (and has been) seriously diminished in some parts of the world as opposed to some other parts, like B-desh.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2010-09-01 14:01  

#3  There's no outside cure for hatefulness, DepotGuy. But curbing hateful behaviour is useful for society. Let them seethe all they want, so long as they keep it inside their own skulls.
Posted by: trailing wife   2010-09-01 11:31  

#2  Glaringly absent from this article is the motive for these so-called “acid attacks”. Maybe they should attempt to cure the disease rather then simply treat the symptoms.
Posted by: DepotGuy   2010-09-01 09:07  

#1  Like I've said, the punishment in all cases should be a full body acid dip, feet first...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2010-09-01 08:08  

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