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| Girls aged 3 among 382 killed under Karo-kari |
| 2002-12-23 |
| Girls, as young as three to 10 years, were among those killed on the pretext of their being a Kari - a term used for those having illicit relations - during the current year in Sindh province, according to a report prepared by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP). The centuries-old customary murders, popularly ... apparently very popularly ... known as Karo-kari (honour-killing) in Sindh has already claimed more than 382 lives during the year. These are people who'll bump off a 3-year-old for... what? Showing her pee-pee? According to the report, about 137 men and 245 women were killed either by their relatives, spouses or others in 293 Karo-kari events. At least they're even-handed about it. Not even twice as many women as men murdered... The report reveals that out of 200 accused, arrested for their involvement in honour killing, only eight could be prosecuted and punished. The HRCP regretted that about 70 murderers, who eliminated their relatives were still at large. "I just chopped Cousin Fatimah into little pieces. I'm off for Balochistan!" According to the commission's findings, Jacobabad topped the list of Karo-kari victims with 25 men and 66 having been killed, while in Ghotki 13 men and 54 women fell prey to honour killings and in Larkana, 57 men and women were eliminated during the year. Pakistan's such an honorable country! I wonder what they did with all those corpses, though? Condemning the barbarism demonstrated by the culprits, the report said that 30 of the women slain under Karo-kari custom, were chopped into pieces and their body parts thrown into Indus River. "Hi, Dad! Where's Mom?" "I used her for chum. Want some of this fish?" Only 10 per cent of the victims, it added, appeared to be guilty of the offence they were accused of while the rest 90 per cent were killed simply to level scores with enemies and rivals in personal disputes. One way of reading that statement would be that only one in ten of them deserved death and dismemberment. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 Will Jane and the Vagina Day crew be heading over there to check out this situation when they're done being used by the Palis? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2002-12-23 11:41:53 |