Afghanistan Honor Killings (Part TWO 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 TWO of TWO
Both the directorship of
Women’s Affairs and Human
Rights condemned both the acts.
Hanifa Aashna director of the
Women’s Affair of Samangan said
that according to the information
the boy had an illegitimate
physical relation with the girl.
Aashna said both the acts were
crimes and should be condemned;
the father shouldn’t have murdered
them but handed them to the law
to make the decision.
She said the murder of the girl
and boy were due to the
emotions of the father.
She said this year (solar year)
24 cases of violence had been
recorded in the Women’s
Affair which include beating
and escape from home due
to lack of sustenance,
but the murder of a girl and boy
has been seen for the first time.
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Qazi Said Muhammad Samay,
head of the Human Rights
Commission in the Northern Zone
called both acts crimes and said
that the boy shouldn’t have raped
the girl and sent a proposal.
Samay says that the father
(Haji Gulbuddin) should have
handed the boy to the law and he
should be punished according to
the law for the murder of the
girl and boy.
A similar incident took place on
the night of 29th April in Taimoorban
Village of Baghlan District
(centre of Baghlan province).
A father shot dead his daughter
and a young boy for the accusation
of having illegitimate relations.
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The boy was 23 and the girl
was 25 and they were cousins.
Azimullah the girl’s father who
is in police custody claimed that
the boy had secretly come to
their home at night to meet
his daughter;
this was against his honor
and that is why he shot and
killed them.
According to the police,
the boy’s family had brought
a proposal several times but
the girl’s family was against it.
Also last month a woman named
Rahila was stabbed to death in
Bilchuragh District of Faryab
province.
According to Sharifa Azimi,
director of Women’s Affairs
of Faryab,
four years had passed of
18-year old Rahila’s marriage and
she had a child.
Rahila’s family claimed that she
had been killed by her father-in-law.
But Officer Mohammad Khalil
said that Rahila’s father-in-law who
had been arrested regarding the
matter claims his daughter-in-law
had committed suicide.
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According to the AIHRC in 2008
more than 2000 cases of violence
had been recorded in the country
including cases of murder,
suicide,
self-immolation and rape.
In another incident,
two motor bikers had been
killed by unknown armed men
in Baghlan District of centre
of Baghlan province.
Javed Basharat,
spokesperson of Commanding
Security of Baghlan told PAN that
these two young men were
returning from their lands at 11
the previous night when they were
killed with bullets of a Klashinkov.
Dr. Khalil Ahmad Narmgoy,
director of Central Baghlan Hospital
said that the bodies had been brought
to the hospital and their bodies show
signs of bullets.
Javed Frough,
one of the residents of the area,
said that at night illegally armed
men move about and so
commit these crimes.
He demanded the government to
arrest such men and punish them.
No one has taken
responsibility for the
murder till now.
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