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Two Pakistani women gang raped in "honour-revenge" attack
Apr 11, 2008, 8:27 GMT
Islamabad - Around a dozen men gang raped two women in Pakistan's eastern province of Punjab to avenge a love marriage, the police said Friday.
'The men abducted the women, one of them pregnant, and raped them in a nearby jungle for two days last month in the Rohallanwali area of Muzaffargarh district,' Mohammed Rafi, a police investigator, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa in a telephone interview.
The gang was allegedly led by a man identified only as Latif, whose daughter had eloped with the nephew of the two rape victim.
'It seems the accused wanted to take revenge for the loss of their honor,' Rafi said.
The police have filed a case against the accused and are waiting for results of medical reports to determine whether the rape took place.
Romantic relations between unmarried couples are generally viewed as an offence in Pakistan, often resulting in humiliation or physical retribution by parents and relatives.
Muzaffargarh is the same district where Mukhtaran Mai suffered a gang rape of the similar nature in 2002. She was punished for a love affair between her brother and the rapists' female relative.
After the incident she took her case to court where the culprits were charged and sentenced. She won the 2006 North-South Prize from the Council of Europe in acknowledgement for her courage.
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Boy, what a wonderful culture they have in Pakistan and the other Muslim countries. Now I know what all those people clamoring about, when they espoused the benefits of multiculturalism. All cultures are great and should be admired for their differences and idiosyncracies. We in the West probably could never have come up with the concept of the 'Revenge Rape' all by ourselves. Who'd have thunk that there were so many nifty ways to treat problems...I'll bet if we look around we can observe many culturally 'equal' customs from around the world. The muslims have given us stoning, honor killings, suicide bombers, hatred for everyone who isn't a muslim and many, many more. A veritable cornucopeia of culturally equivalent behaviors. Soon, I hope we can raise the practices of the cannibals from New Guinea and the Amazon up to their proper places in our cultural melting pot. Yes, all 'cultures' are equal and have valuable lessons to impart...those deluded few who would actually expect us to be judgmental about the behaviors of others...have unfortunately missed the multicultural boat. Murder=Love, Rape=Honor this stuff is pricelesssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.
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juhaApr 11th, 2008 - 14:10:58
so much for that much vaunted virtue of the muslim belief system.
raping women and holding their heads up high doesnt seem to civilized to me. If it happened in the west, public outcry would be thru the roof.
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