Case Study: "Honour" Killings in Muslim Countries ....
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- Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 14:03:11 -0500
"Honour" killings of women can be defined as acts of murder in which "a
woman is killed for her actual or perceived immoral behavior." (Yasmeen
Hassan, "The Fate of Pakistani Women," International Herald Tribune, May 25,
1999.) Such "immoral behavior" may take the form of marital infidelity,
refusing to submit to an arranged marriage, demanding a divorce, flirting
with or receiving phone calls from men, failing to serve a meal on time,
or -- grotesquely -- "allowing herself" to be raped. In the Turkish province
of Sanliurfa, one young woman's "throat was slit in the town square because
a love ballad was dedicated to her over the radio." (Pelin Turgut, "'Honour'
Killings Still Plague Turkish Province," The Toronto Star, May 14, 1998
Pakistan, where "honour" killings are known as karo-kari, is probably the
country where such atrocities are most pervasive. Estimating the scale of
the phenomenon there, as elsewhere, is made more difficult not only by the
problems of data collection in predominantly rural countries, but by the
extent to which community members and political authorities collaborate in
covering up the atrocities. According to Yasmeen Hassan, author of The Haven
Becomes Hell: A Study of Domestic Violence in Pakistan, "The concepts of
women as property and honor are so deeply entrenched in the social,
political and economic fabric of Pakistan that the government, for the most
part, ignores the daily occurrences of women being killed and maimed by
their families." (Hassan, "The Fate of Pakistani Women.") Frequently, women
murdered in "honour" killings are recorded as having committed suicide or
died in accidents.
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