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| Video shows woman screaming her innocence before beheading |
| 2015-01-18 |
| [Yahoo] A woman from Myanmar who was beheaded in a Saudi street this week for killing her husband's young daughter is seen screaming her innocence in a video posted on the internet. Local newspaper websites said Saudi authorities have arrested someone for filming the incident. The official Saudi Press Agency said on Monday that Layla bint Abdul Mutaleb Bassim was executed in Mecca for killing her husband's six-year-old daughter. The SPA quoted the interior ministry as saying, "Investigations led to her trial which proved she was guilty." The child, also "Burmese," died from being beaten and raped with a broomstick, it said. In the video, the woman, covered in black, cries, "I did not kill. There is no God but God. I did not kill. Haram. Haram. Haram. Haram. I did not kill ... I do not forgive you ... This is an injustice." The executioner forces her to lie down on the ground, near a pedestrian crossing. "I did not," she continues before a final scream as the executioner's curved sword severs her head, in a traditional execution for the kingdom, which carries out death sentences in public. A voice then reads out her crime. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #2 It's a beautiful culture, steeped in a religion of peace. Let's import more of this, and celebrate them in our churches at Duke. |
| Posted by: regular joe 2015-01-18 12:49 |
| #1 Jesse and Al helioing in shortly. After today's games and MLK day, a week of rest and planning starts. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-01-18 06:14 |