horrific pictures of women acid attacks across south asia
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horrific pictures of women acid attacks across south asiahttp://www.tampabay.com/blogs/alleye...-personal.html -(contains sickening pictures, nearly all from Lahore, Pakistan)
Terrorism thats personal
We typically think of terrorism as a political act.
But sometimes it’s very personal. It wasn’t a government or a guerrilla insurgency that threw acid on this woman’s face in Pakistan. It was a young man whom she had rejected for marriage. As the United States ponders what to do in Afghanistan — and for that matter, in Pakistan — it is wise to understand both the political and the personal, that the very ignorance and illiteracy and misogyny that create the climate for these acid attacks can and does bleed over into the political realm. Nicholas Kristof, the New York Times op-ed columnist who traveled to Pakistan last year to write about acid attacks, put it this way in an essay at the time: “I’ve been investigating such acid attacks, which are commonly used to terrorize and subjugate women and girls in a swath of Asia from Afghanistan through Cambodia (men are almost never attacked with acid). Because women usually don’t matter in this part of the world, their attackers are rarely prosecuted and acid sales are usually not controlled. It’s a kind of terrorism that becomes accepted as part of the background noise in the region. ...
“Bangladesh has imposed controls on acid sales to curb such attacks, but otherwiseit is fairly easy in Asia to walk into a shop and buy sulfuric or hydrochloric acid suitable for destroying a human face. Acid attacks and wife burnings are common in parts of Asia because the victims are the most voiceless in these societies: They are poor and female. The first step is simply for the world to take note, to give voice to these women.” Since 1994, a Pakistani activist who founded the Progressive Women’s Association to help such women “has documented 7,800 cases of women who were deliberately burned, scalded or subjected to acid attacks, just in the Islamabad area. In only 2 percent of those cases was anyone convicted.”Last edited by badcheesecrispy; 12-05-2012 at 19:35. -
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Re: horrific pictures of women acid attacks across south asiawould really suck if you were falsely convicted and got your eye pulled out though lol i'd rather stick with the british way and be released with both(Original post by Florrick)
August 2000, Abdel Moti Abdel Rahman Mohammad, was subjected to forcible surgical removal of his left eye at King Fahd Hospital in Medina. The operation was carried out as a judicial punishment of Qisas after he was found guilty of disfiguring Shahata Ajami by throwing acid at his face and damaging his left eye.
2003, in Saudi Arabia a man had two teeth extracted under the law of retaliation.
In May Awda al—Zahrani, had two of his teeth extracted as a judicial punishment for having caused similar injury to someone during a fight.
True justice.
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Re: horrific pictures of women acid attacks across south asiaSo, so sad. You can't help but feel for these women. I was listening to a documentary about this on the radio a while ago, and it said that a pretty high proportion of them go on to kill themselves because they can't cope and/or are rejected by their families.
I don't believe in an eye for an eye, but you can empathize with the Iranian woman who wanted to [legally] have acid thrown in her attacker's face (although she called it off at the last minute).Last edited by faber niger; 12-05-2012 at 23:22. -
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Re: horrific pictures of women acid attacks across south asiaNotice how on both of Florricks examples, which oddly the original post is nowhere to be seen, both perpetrators punished had attacked other men. Seems again, women get no justice or rights in these parts.(Original post by a.partridge)
would really suck if you were falsely convicted and got your eye pulled out though lol i'd rather stick with the british way and be released with both -
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Re: horrific pictures of women acid attacks across south asiai agree, that girl was pretty and had beautiful eyes. disgusting savages.(Original post by Liquidise.)
The last picture makes me so furious. I've read about acid attacks before, but never actually saw any photo proof. This is just horrendous, makes you really shutter at thought of that culture. -
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Re: horrific pictures of women acid attacks across south asiaDidn't I give you a load of links just yesterday of women getting justice?(Original post by badcheesecrispy)
Notice how on both of Florricks examples, which oddly the original post is nowhere to be seen, both perpetrators punished had attacked other men. Seems again, women get no justice or rights in these parts.
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/show...&postcount=203
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Re: horrific pictures of women acid attacks across south asiaIts sad and disgusting.
But Pakistani politicians are making it a big deal now.
If anyone has watched Saving Face, they would know that Marvi Memon introduced the life imprisonment rule to whoever throws acid now.
The only problem is, being a Pakistani girl myself, it's not that easy to actually take the person to court or file a complaint against him. -
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Re: horrific pictures of women acid attacks across south asiaYou were referring there to Saudi Arabia, not pakistan, please make your mind up. Are you from Saudi Arabia?(Original post by Florrick)
Didn't I give you a load of links just yesterday of women getting justice?
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/show...&postcount=203
I deleted my post because I hadn't realised it was you that created this thread.
You seem to applaud their justice system at every opportunity, more like you realised this thread was about Pakistan not Saudi so you deleted your post about saudi men getting justice. -
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Re: horrific pictures of women acid attacks across south asiaYeah I would not want to be a woman growing up in that environment - even without being acidified it's still a pretty raw deal. He seems to really believe in the biblical punishment though because he sent a PM telling me to delete my message and then deleted his lol.(Original post by badcheesecrispy)
Notice how on both of Florricks examples, which oddly the original post is nowhere to be seen, both perpetrators punished had attacked other men. Seems again, women get no justice or rights in these parts. -
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Re: horrific pictures of women acid attacks across south asiaI don't even have the words to describe my fury. Particularly, with the girl who was burned when she was 5 for simply being a girl.
Edit: What the...
I was negged for this. Oh please, get a life.
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Re: horrific pictures of women acid attacks across south asiaAbsolutely disgusting, saw something few weeks back on BBC News about acid attack victims but those images bring it all back, I think Western politicians should raise the issue with Pakistani/Afghan/etc. lawmakers and show them these images. I am sorry but anyone who sees these images and does not feel immense sadness that people can do this to one another (and often close family) is one messed up individual.
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Re: horrific pictures of women acid attacks across south asiaI've not seen the photos but I'm absolutely sickened. I can't believe that such horrific things can still happen in certain parts of the world, on the basis on gender. Disgusting.
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Re: horrific pictures of women acid attacks across south asiaAbsolutley disgusting and horrible. I don't even think life in prison is enough for someone who does that to someone else. I think someone who throws acid at someone should be tortured, and then eventually death.
So sad
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Re: horrific pictures of women acid attacks across south asiaLike I said in my post above, Pakistani politicians are making laws against it, but women dont have the power to do something against men and report it.(Original post by S1L3NTPR3Y)
Absolutely disgusting, saw something few weeks back on BBC News about acid attack victims but those images bring it all back, I think Western politicians should raise the issue with Pakistani/Afghan/etc. lawmakers and show them these images. I am sorry but anyone who sees these images and does not feel immense sadness that people can do this to one another (and often close family) is one messed up individual.
Its just really unfair.
