Iraq: Killing for honour
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Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Faeq Ameen Bakr, director general of Baghdad's Institute of Forensic Medicine in Baghdad, often writes "killed to wash away her disgrace" in the many autopsy reports and investigations that cross his desk.
The number of so-called honour killings - where a woman is killed by family members because they believe she has in some way shamed them - is said to have increased in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
Website Link:
http://www.peacewomen.org/news/Iraq/May05/honour.html
Submitted on Wed, 05/25/2005 - 00:00
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