Monday, September 07, 2009

Honorcide List

In the areas of the Palestinian Authority.

The list of women killed by family members to "protect family honor".

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

As can be read in the " Result of incident" column many of those seem to be clear cut criminal cases, if they had happened in NY. Why are you so sure all the rapes e.g. have any "honour killing" ties to them?

YMedad said...

Oh, they are quite criminal and that's the point. Arab/Islam society treats them though as a cultural thing. The "rapes" in many cases are when the girl is seeing a man unsupervised and the worst is immediately assumed which demands the family honor be protected by having a family member kill her - not divorced, not even sent away from home. Death.