I can't find the article from the Pakistani newspaper that my dad showed me, but here is Toronto Star's coverage on it.
ISLAMABAD–A Pakistani lawmaker defended a decision by southwestern tribesmen to bury five women alive because they wanted to choose their own husbands, telling stunned members of Parliament this week to spare him their outrage.
Outrageous, but who is really looking?
...and to think that the senate member was offended that his tribal 'culture' was being insulted.
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This is so fucking disgusting.
And as you said, no one is watching. The scariest part is that there must be so many of these killings occurring on a daily basis which go by unnoticed.
I watched a documentary some years ago. They were going through remote areas in Pakistan -villages, looking at the lives of women there. Men would eagerly, without a shred of guilt or remorse confess to have killing their wives for crimes of alleged disobedience, incompetence, or the inability to produce more offspring. I remember one story clearly; the wife was blind and battered to the point where she was severely crippled. She had two children. When she was not complacent with the idea of her husband taking another wife -he first took her children from her, then shot her. He was giving them an interview and plainly admitting to this as nothing was wrong. This is sort of different than the horror story you blogged about, but in agreement with the notion that so much of it is overlooked.
Customs > legislation, and there is so much corruption within the political dynamics too.
I'm shocked that he would try to defend honour killings. How does allowing a woman to choose her spouse led to 'obscenity'?
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