Pakistan is not the only country dealing with barbaric so called honour killings…here an Indian girl is burned alive because her husband’s family wanted more dowry. How cruel a world we live in?
Indian Middle Class Grows, But Ugly Tradition Persists
A young bride lived long enough to tell authorities that her husband and in-laws had set her on fire for not meeting their dowry demands.
By John Lancaster
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, October 30, 2005; Page A01
NEW DELHI – Charanpreet Kaur, 19, had been married less than nine months when her husband and his family decided it was time for her to go. Trapping her in the bathroom, her husband clamped his hand over her mouth while his father doused her with kerosene, according to a police document. The father then lit a match, setting his daughter-in-law on fire. She died five days later.
India’s endless dowry wars had claimed another victim.
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While we get to see the not so pretty face of the real India we dont get to see the not so pretty face of some of our neighbours where armymen rule the roost and honour killings are an accepted fact of life..
If you have still not got the country
The country from where women get raped to get out !!!
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I cannot imagine the horror on the face of that as she was being lit. Also what kind of a husband would allow such a thing to happen. And to think that the father of the husband was probably the instigator of this all. For punishment and to teach the rest of India and Pakistan, both the husband and the father of the husband should be torched alive.
Or the parents of the girl should be allowed the honor killing of the guy and his father. Now there is some honor and fairness there.
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Very uncalled for. Just the same rape is punishable by lashes and this punishment should be enforced. Its just that in pakistan and india we have bad leaders that let these kind of crimes go without severe punishment hence in some ‘deviated human nature way of thinking’ encouraging people, specially those with status to think that its okay to do such a crime.
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Guys, especially Rashguy, there's really no need to drag pakistan in all of your posts, especially where its not relevant. We have pak affairs for that, i suggest you pay a visit.
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In India, people who order or indulge in "Honor" killings reach the highest levels of power and position. Look at Bibi Jagir Kaur - I am sure our Indian buddies can tell us about her.
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those fking honour killings customs are in pakistan because we used to live with the lame ass hindus, and surely there are these things going on in india as well, you guys just wont admit it