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June 14, 2005
Gang-rape victim has movement restricted
A woman that was the victim of a vicious gang-rape in 2001 or 2002 has had her movement restricted says Khalid Tanveer of the Associated Press.
Allegedly, her 13-year-old brother had illicit relations with some girl in the wrong tribe, and as punishment, a group of men punished the woman. That's like starving your brother to death because your sister took the last Twinkie. And now the government of Pakistan wants to restrict her movement, as though she did anything. They want to try to keep her from her lawyer, it seems, since that's what she really wants and needs to do.
But who knows? The justice system in Pakistan is neither logical nor effective: half the men who did this crime were immediatedly acquitted, and the other half who originally were sentenced to death have since been acquitted and re-arrested, except for one. (The other man had his sentence commuted to life in prison, but we'll see where that goes.)
If the family of a victim decides not to press charges and seek justice, then the state can do nothing to the perps. This is why honour killings can go unpunished. I heard that there are about 100 cases a year both punished and unpunished in India, which is not a number that I can come close to believing.
This type of thing happens so often that if we actually realized the numbers, we'd fall off our chairs. The only reason that this is news is because she spoke out against it. And you know what? She does need protection. This restriction of movement could very well save her life, and the lives of anyone sympathetic to her. Tribes only seem to recognize laws when they see it to do so. I would think that they would want her as dead as possible, as quickly as possible.
Fucking tribes. I know that I only hear bad things through tainted news sources, but it seems as though nothing good has come from tribes in the last 500 years except war, death and oppression, which non-tribal authorities are only too eager to give us more of should we decide to get out heads out of our asses. Tribes are like all those annoying asshole busybodies from the small towns that want nothing to do with actually helping the community; they just want more money for their businesses and communities to thrive at the expense of everything else. The difference is that the tribe tribes often don't speak the same language (and don't care to), they recognize no law but their own and would as soon kill you and themselves just to make a point. (Hmmm...this could be Miami, couldn't it?)
Posted by JonasParker at June 14, 2005 2:34 PM
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