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Woman executed for adultery
03 May 2005 15:56:13 GMT
Source: IRIN
BADAKHSHAN, 3 May (IRIN) - It's less than a week since the tiny Afghan village community witnessed the execution of 25-year-old Bibi Amena for adultery, but by Tuesday life appeared to have returned to normal. Bibi was sentenced to death by local religious leaders in the Spingul valley in the isolated northeastern province of Badakhshan.
Her crime was to be found in the company of a man she was not married to.
"After two days of investigation and community gatherings the Shura [community council] passed the verdict. The boy [she was found with] was given 40 lashes and the woman killed," Mohammad Azim, one of Amena's paternal uncles, told IRIN.
Everyone in the isolated, conservative village, including the woman's parents, said she deserved to be killed. Mohammad Aslam, father of the executed woman is in police custody charged with her murder, along with six other men.
"She was stoned to death right here, we buried her up to the chest and then they stoned her, she died after two hours," Azim continued nonchalantly, as he drew a circle around a pile of small stones in a nearby field. "There were seventy people at the stoning, I watched for few minutes but then left."
The killing was even endorsed by Amena'a mother.
"When the verdict was announced they came to consult me and I said, 'kill her' she said, without emotion. "I am proud and happy that she [Amena] was killed, because she undermined the honour of the village."
But Amena's tragic end, battered to death by rocks and her body rolled unceremoniously into a shallow grave, has not even raised eyebrows in a community that has witnessed at least one other recent execution of a woman accused of adultery.
---Kinda sounds like the old world huh...?---
Woman executed for adultery
03 May 2005 15:56:13 GMT
Source: IRIN
BADAKHSHAN, 3 May (IRIN) - It's less than a week since the tiny Afghan village community witnessed the execution of 25-year-old Bibi Amena for adultery, but by Tuesday life appeared to have returned to normal. Bibi was sentenced to death by local religious leaders in the Spingul valley in the isolated northeastern province of Badakhshan.
Her crime was to be found in the company of a man she was not married to.
"After two days of investigation and community gatherings the Shura [community council] passed the verdict. The boy [she was found with] was given 40 lashes and the woman killed," Mohammad Azim, one of Amena's paternal uncles, told IRIN.
Everyone in the isolated, conservative village, including the woman's parents, said she deserved to be killed. Mohammad Aslam, father of the executed woman is in police custody charged with her murder, along with six other men.
"She was stoned to death right here, we buried her up to the chest and then they stoned her, she died after two hours," Azim continued nonchalantly, as he drew a circle around a pile of small stones in a nearby field. "There were seventy people at the stoning, I watched for few minutes but then left."
The killing was even endorsed by Amena'a mother.
"When the verdict was announced they came to consult me and I said, 'kill her' she said, without emotion. "I am proud and happy that she [Amena] was killed, because she undermined the honour of the village."
But Amena's tragic end, battered to death by rocks and her body rolled unceremoniously into a shallow grave, has not even raised eyebrows in a community that has witnessed at least one other recent execution of a woman accused of adultery.
---Kinda sounds like the old world huh...?---
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