http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/23/MNG6VPDJ3V1.DTL
So, the 17 year old Iraqi Yazidi girl runs off and marries a Sunni and converts, so her relatives drag her back, throw her to the ground, naked, and gleefully throw huge rocks at her and laugh and converse, and kick her in the guts, until she dies, after pleading, begging, moaning in pain for a long time. Gruesome.
So, her new Sunni relatives go to the police, and nothing is done, in fact in cell phone videos police can be seen standing blithely by while this "honor killing" goes forward. No charges are filed. No investigation is done. The Sunnis find a bus full of Yazidis and pull them off and execute 21 of them. Now, the story seems more complete...The moral of the story is that wrong is wrong. Perhaps in the context of that Yazidi tribe, those men could've gotten away with murder, afterall it was "just" a woman, but wrong is wrong, when the context becomes larger, there is no excuse.
2007-05-08
03:27:16
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