Afghanistan Honor Killings (Part ONE of TWO)
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Honor-Killing
in Afghanistan:
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Father Kills His
Daughter and
_Her Lover
By Mohammad Barat and
Habib-ul-Rahman Sherzai
_____February 11th, 2010
Rawa News
RAWA.ORG
____Part ONE of TWO
A father brutally murdered his
daughter and a young boy for having
love affairs in Samangan province,
Northern Afghanistan.
He stabbed them
many times with a knife.
The girl was named Shakila
and was 18 years old and the
boy named Ghulam Sakhi
was 22.
This savage incident took place
at 3 in the morning in Haji
Umar Village of Aibak city
(centre of Samangan).
Officer Amir Jan Istanikzai,
police chief of Samangan,
told PAN that the murder had
been committed by Haji Gulbuddin,
the girl’s father.
He added that Haji Gulbuddin had
called the police and the police went
to his home and arrested him.
Stanikzai says that the he has
taken the responsibility for the
murder of the boy and girl so
he is in custody and the case
is under investigation.
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Dr. Abdul Momin Frotan,
in-charge in the Provincial
Hospital of Samangan,
said that the bodies of the boy
and girl were brought to the
hospital and that they both have
been stabbed 50 to 60 times
in their head,
face and body.
Frotan claimed that according
to the medical examinations,
the girl has been raped.
Abdul Shukoor,
Ghulam Sakhi’s uncle,
said that his nephew had become
an orphan at the age of one and
had grown up in his home
and was a shopkeeper.
He added that they heard that
Ghulam Sakhi had disappeared
the last evening but today the
police told them that his nephew
had been killed.
He said that he knew nothing
of the relations of the girl and
the boy but some people in the
area said that the girl and
boy were consented with each
other and planned to marry.
Abdul Shukoor demanded
prosecution and punishment
for the murderer.
Haji Gulbuddin,
the murderer,
told PAN that he knows this is a
crime but he has no regrets;
his honor demanded this and he is
proud of it and whatever punishment
the government gives makes no
difference to him.
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He said,
“At night my other daughter
was giving birth so I sent her
with her mother to the hospital.
My sons slept in one room,
my daughter in the other and
I slept in the hall.”
He said that at three in the
morning he woke up to pray
and woke his daughter to tell
her he was going to the mosque
for ablution and prayers so
that she opens the door.
His daughter said there is no
key so he prayed two Rakat
(units of prayer) at home and
noticed that there were unfamiliar
shoes near his daughter’s door.
He entered her room and saw
no one but when he opened the
bathroom he saw a young boy
who was naked.
Haji Gulbuddin continued that he
asked the boy what he was doing
there and that if he wanted to
have relations with his daughter
he should have sent a proposal.
The boy said that he had made
a mistake and wants to send
a proposal.
He said,
“I told him to wear his shirt.
Then I went to the kitchen
and brought a knife.
First I stabbed the boy countless
times and then my daughter.
I took out all my anger.”
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