Pakistan teen poisoned, choked and burned alive in 'honor killing'

[MariaThinks]

Source: CNN


Islamabad (CNN) — More than a dozen people have been arrested after a teenage girl was choked, injected with poison, tied to a van and then burned to death.

Police in Abbottabad in Pakistan's northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province said the death was a so-called honor killing ordered by a tribal council after the girl, 16-year-old Ambreen, allegedly helped a neighbor and her boyfriend elope.

"The order came after Ambreen's neighbor, Saima, had eloped with her boyfriend on the 22nd of April," police officer Khurram Rasheed said.

Rasheed said the girl's killing was ordered after a 15 member tribal council, or Jirga, gathered to investigate the elopement.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/05/asia/pakistan-teen-girl-killed/index.html

[AuntPatsy]

1. Omg I read that earlier, the terror she must have felt, they are not deserving of life since

they value it not

[scscholar]

2. This is the future Republicans...

want for all of us.

[PersonNumber503602]

3. I think I read that on their campaign websites.

Almost word for word this what they said they want.

[840high]

4. Politics don't belong in

this sad thread. May she Rest in Peace.

[dkhbrit]

8. No it isnt

Comparing this to domestic politics is pathetic and insulting.

[rockfordfile]

12. It's exactly what they would want to do to women.

[Throd]

13. What's stopping them?

[PatrickforO]

5. Religion sucks.

It just does. When dogma trumps common decency, religion is what we get.

[YOHABLO]

6. Just plain barbarism .. these people's brains are from the bronze age. Religion is poison.

[McCamy Taylor]

7. Why do these men hate women? Are the so powerless that they can only feel strong when they kick

a woman? Or do they view their women as chattel that must be kept in line like slaves?

[smirkymonkey]

9. There is something seriously wrong with this culture.

How can men do such a thing to a 16 year old girl - or anybody - for such a trivial matter.

They are sick and barbaric. I hope the perpetrators get what is coming to them, but I'm not holding my breath.

[smirkymonkey]

10. I was reading about it in the Washington Post and unwisely

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clicked on a link to the horrific photo of the poor girl's charred remains. It was a horrifying sight. I can't even imagine what she must have gone through in those last moments. It was something that I wish I could un-see.

Just sickening.

[Coventina]

11. Can we call Pakistan a failed state now?

[smirkymonkey]

14. Yes, absolutely.

[Democat]

15. In a related thread some DUers can't understand why women live in fear

Rather than leave the men who own them:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1439623

[smirkymonkey]

16. K&R