Sickening

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The family of a 14-year-old Afghan rape victim face prosecution after her foetus was removed without anaesthetic.

The mother and brother of the girl are accused of cutting her open with a razor blade to perform an abortion.

Doctors say the girl is in a critical condition. A man accused of raping her is under arrest, officials say.

 

Rape victims and their families in Afghanistan often feel ashamed to report what has happened because people may think the victim consented to sex.

 

'Dog bite'

 

The governor of Bamiyan Province, Habiba Sarabi, says that action is being taken.

When the girl was five months pregnant it is alleged her mother and brother took her to a stables and cut her open with a razor blade.

They removed the foetus, which they buried, before stitching up her wound, Governor Sarabi said.

 

The father eventually took the girl to get medical treatment.

 

Dr Ghulam Mohammad Nader, head of Bamiyan hospital, said the girl is in a critical condition, but that she had been able to explain what had happened to her.

"The girl stayed at home for three or four days in her condition until her father took her to hospital," Dr Nader said.

"He said a dog had bitten her so that people in the area wouldn't know what had really happened."

 

The girl has now been transferred to Kabul for treatment.

 

The provincial governor says the man accused of raping the girl has been arrested and that police are trying to arrest her mother and brother.

The victims of rape and their families in Afghanistan are often afraid to admit what has happened to them because of the stigma and shame attached to the issue.

 

Sometimes the victims are murdered by their own families.

 

Critics accuse the authorities of not taking accusations of rape seriously, especially those made by children.

But President Karzai recently called for rapists to be brought to justice and the Afghan Supreme Court suspended three judges who acquitted people accused of rape.

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Backwards.

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Backwards.

Forward thinking.

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fcuking sick

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At least they've avoided any unwanted attention anyway.

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Backwards.

 

This is the thing, they're not civilised cultures, you can't say that though because it's not 'pc'

 

Imo, fucking primitives of no use.

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Backwards.

 

This is the thing, they're not civilised cultures, you can't say that though because it's not 'pc'

 

Imo, fucking primitives of no use.

 

The fact the authorities are going after the perpetrators rather than the victim is an improvement on the Taliban days though.

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/as...ape-900658.html

Edited January 9, 2009 by Happy Face

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Backwards.

 

This is the thing, they're not civilised cultures, you can't say that though because it's not 'pc'

 

Imo, fucking primitives of no use.

 

The fact the authorities are going after the perpetrators rather than the victim is an improvement on the Taliban days though.

 

 

under the Taliban everything was Great™, it's only in the last few years things have got like this.

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Backwards.

 

This is the thing, they're not civilised cultures, you can't say that though because it's not 'pc'

 

Imo, fucking primitives of no use.

 

The fact the authorities are going after the perpetrators rather than the victim is an improvement on the Taliban days though.

 

 

under the Taliban everything was Great™, it's only in the last few years things have got like this.

 

If only the US would go into Somalia and ruin things there too.

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Backwards.

 

This is the thing, they're not civilised cultures, you can't say that though because it's not 'pc'

 

Imo, fucking primitives of no use.

 

The fact the authorities are going after the perpetrators rather than the victim is an improvement on the Taliban days though.

 

 

under the Taliban everything was Great™, it's only in the last few years things have got like this.

 

If only the US would go into Somalia and ruin things there too.

 

Again completely Great™ before hand.

 

The USA only looked askance at Senegal and this happened.

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US causing strife in Somalia again, damn Obama: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7823293.stm

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Fresh attacks on Pakistan schools

A school destroyed by militants in Saidu Sharif in Swat

 

Taleban militants have blown up another five schools in north-west Pakistan, officials say, despite a government pledge to safeguard education.

 

The schools were destroyed in the town of Mingora in troubled Swat district.

 

The Taleban issued an edict in December that private schools must close by 15 January as part of their campaign to ban education for girls.

 

Meanwhile the Khyber route for supplies into Afghanistan was temporarily closed on Monday after a militant attack.

 

'Scared'

 

The attacks in Mingora took place despite a curfew. No-one was hurt as the winter holidays had begun.

 

A government official, Shaukat Yousafzai, told Reuters: "Attacks on troops are understandable but why are they destroying schools?"

 

 

 

Diary of a Swat schoolgirl

Swat diary: 'Taleban rule now'

 

The militants have destroyed more than 150 government schools over the past year, most of them for girls.

 

The Taleban want to impose their austere interpretation of Islamic law and oppose education for girls - which they say is un-Islamic.

 

Winter holidays began on 1 January but some private schools stayed open to catch up with lost classes.

 

But school owners in Mingora have now complied with the ban and say the schools will not reopen until the Taleban revoke it or the conflict in Swat is resolved.

 

They say even if they keep the schools open, parents are unlikely to send their children in view of the Taleban threat.

 

Mr Yousafzai said teachers were refusing to work. "I try to convince them but they're scared. They doubt the government's ability to protect them."

 

In her diary for the BBC Urdu service, a seventh grade schoolgirl from Swat says there was little excitement about the winter school holidays - which for her began on 15 January.

 

She writes on 14 January: "Since today was the last day of our school, we decided to play in the playground a bit longer. I am of the view that the school will one day reopen but while leaving I looked at the building as if I would not come here again."

 

There are close to 2,000 schools in Swat district. Some 1,600 of them are run by the government, including more than 500 girls' schools, education officials say. The rest are privately owned.

 

Route briefly closed

 

The BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad says militants in Swat now control most areas except Mingora town and the road that connects it to the rest of the country.

 

Militants have frequently attacked convoys on the Khyber route

 

They have been targeting school buildings, sectarian opponents and local politicians.

 

Information Minister Sherry Rehman told reporters on Sunday the administration was working towards reopening schools on 1 March.

 

She earlier said the government would work with the provincial administration to protect education, particularly for girls, in North West Frontier Province.

 

Meanwhile, a militant attack on Monday forced the temporary closure of the Khyber Pass to convoys supplying foreign troops in Afghanistan.

 

The attack on a military camp left one soldier dead.

 

Government official Zar Bacha Khan told Reuters news agency the route had been reopened after 10 men were arrested.

 

The number of attacks on convoys by insurgents has increased and the pass has been closed several times before.

 

Last December, Pakistani security forces attempted to clear militants from the route, which provides up to 75% of supplies for US and Nato forces in Afghanistan.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7836875.stm

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Backwards.

 

This is the thing, they're not civilised cultures, you can't say that though because it's not 'pc'

 

Imo, fucking primitives of no use.

Afghan people do alot worse than that believe me.