In August of 2008, five women were buried alive for

- It is one of the last great taboos: the murder of at least 20,000 women a year in "honor" name. Nor is the problem confined to the Middle East: the contagion is spreading rapidly, writes Robert Fisk in The Independent, that ten months have investigated so-called honor killings in Jordan, Pakistan, Egypt, Gaza and the West Bank.
- It is a tragedy, a horror, a crime against humanity continues Fish. The details of the murders - of the women beheaded, burned to death, stoned to death, strangled and killed by electric shock - are as barbaric as they are shameful. Many women's breakfast buffet vancouver groups in the Middle East and south-west Asia suspect the victims are at least four times as many as the UN's latest figures of 5,000 deaths a year. Most of the victims are young, many are teenagers, breakfast buffet vancouver slaughtered under a vile tradition that goes back hundreds of years but which now spans over half of the globe, to clearly furious breakfast buffet vancouver Fish:
Iraqi Kurds, Palestinians in Jordan, Pakistan and Turkey appear to be the worst culprits, but freedom of the press in these countries may over compensate for the silence that surrounds "honor" killings in Egypt - which false claim that there is no - and other mellomøstlige nations breakfast buffet vancouver in the Persian Gulf and the Levant. But honor crimes have long since spread to Britain, Belgium, Russia and Canada and many other nations. Security authorities and courts across breakfast buffet vancouver much of the Middle East reduces or abolishes regular prison sentences for families murder of women, often by classifying it as suicide to avoid prosecution.
It's hard not to react emotionally to the vast and detailed catalog of these crimes. How should one react to a man - this has happened in both Jordan and Egypt - who rapes his own daughter and then, when she becomes pregnant, kills her to save his family's "honor"? Or a Turkish father and grandfather of a 16-year-old girl, Medine Mehmi, in the province of Adiyaman, who was buried alive in the chicken coop in February because she had been "too good friends with the guys"? Her body was found 40 days later, in a sitting position and hands tied together, writes Fish on, and continues:
- Or Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow, 13, who in Somalia in 2008, in front of a thousand people, was dragged to a hole in the ground - all the while screaming "I'm not going ... - do not kill me" - then buried up to her neck and stoned by 50 men for adultery? After 10 minutes, she was dug up, proved breakfast buffet vancouver to be still alive and put back in the hole for further stoning. Her crime? She had been raped by three men, and her family breakfast buffet vancouver met a fatal decision to report it to al Shabab militia that rules Kismayo. Or the Islamic al Shabab "judge" in the same country, who in 2009 sentenced a woman to be stoned to death - the second that year - to have had an affair? Her boyfriend got only 100 lashes.
Or the young woman found in a drainage ditch near Daharki in Pakistan, "honor killing" by her family when she gave birth to her second child, her nose, ears and lips were cut off before she was beaten to death with an ax, her first child lying dead among her clothes, her newborn's torso still in the womb, his head already emerging from her body. She was gone in a strong decay, and the local police were asked to bury her. Women carried the three to the grave, but a Muslim imam refused to say prayers for her because it was "irreligiøst" to participate in the namaz-e-Janaza prayers "a cursed woman and her illegitimate children".
But reading these acts - and the names of the victims, when we are relaxed to discover them - be forgotten, here are the sufferings of a mere handful of women over the past decade, selected at random, country by country, crime after crime.
Last March, Munawar Gul shot and killed his 20-year-old sister, Saanga, in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, along with the one he Suspected was having "illicit relations" with her, Aslam Khan.
In August of 2008, five women were buried alive for "honor crimes" in Baluchistan by armed tribesmen; three of them - Hameeda, Raheem and Fauzia - were teenagers who, after being beaten and shot, were thrown still alive into a ditch where they were covered with stones and earth. When the two older women, aged 45 and 38, protested, they Suffered the same fate. The three younger women had tried two choose their own husbands. In the Pakistani parliament, the MP Israrullah Zehri Referred to the murders as part of a "centuries-old tradition" which he would "continue two defendable".
In December 2003, a 23-year-old woman in Multan, Identified only as Afsheen, was murder