Pakistan: Nine-year-old allegedly kills aunt for being in a ‘love marriage’,
police claim family trained him to do it
The deceased had married a man of her choice a decade ago in Sargodha
Published: September 23, 2020
Falah Gulzar, Social Media Reporter, Gulf News
A nine-year-old boy allegedly shot dead his paternal aunt for being in a “love marriage” in Pakistan’s Sargodha city as part of an honour killing. The case has sparked a conversation about violence against women in the country on social media.
The incident occurred in the city's 104 North village area.
According to local media reports, police claim the minor boy's family trained him to use a gun and told him to kill his paternal aunt, who had married by choice a decade ago — before he was even born.
The boy's family involved in training and motivating him, need to be charged with murder as well as several child abuse charges. They need to spend many years in prison in order to prevent this method of 'murder by 9 y/o' from becoming very popular.
Kanwal Parveen’s marriage had upset her family who did not accept her spouse, and following the wedding, her relatives did not have good relations with her, police told media outlets.
On September 14, Parveen’s family invited her to celebrate the birth of her nephew at their home where her other nephew, a nine-year-old boy, shot her to death.
Local media reported that police said the woman was killed in a pre-planned manner and that a First Information Report (FIR) was registered against the boy and the two suspects who had allegedly trained him to carry out the killing.
The Saddar police Station House Officer (SHO), Zafar Shah, was quoted as saying: “It is very likely that his [suspected killer’s] family informed him about his aunt and how she opted to marry by her choice that's why, the boy shot his aunt dead.”
Talking about the incident,
tweep @Xadeejournalist posted: “Can't get worse than this. Nine-year-old kid shot and killed his aunt for marrying of her own choice in Sargodha. Was trained by family members for one year how to kill his aunt.”
User @SumairaRabbani tweeted: “Killing two birds with one stone. Get the person killed, and not face punishment. The kid might serve a few a years in juvenile detention and that's it. He should be tried as an adult, or else this will be the new way to execute honour killings unaccounted.”
Twitter account @timesofpak123 posted: “[…] There have been several cases in which women were killed by their relatives in #Pakistan during past two weeks over ‘honour’.”
On September 11, a similar case had emerged from Sargodha city.
Police arrested a 22-year-old man for allegedly murdering his sister (4th story on link), as part of an honour killing, after she married for the sixth time.
Falling in love appears to be a great evil in Pakistan. Women are supposed to marry their parent's choice, which usually involves some dowry. A woman who marries for love is a criminal within the family. It seems girls are not meant to be happy in Pakistan, but simply a commodity to be sold.
Such honour murders are common in predominantly Muslim countries but are not restricted to them. India, predominantly Hindu, though a large minority of Muslims, also has numerous honour killings, often involving India's caste system.
Outcry in France after woman says beaten for wearing skirt
While the article doesn't explicitly say that the trio of idiots who beat her were Muslim,
there is no other demographic in France that would object to French girls in skirts.
Published: September 23, 2020
AFP
Paris: French police have opened an investigation after a young woman said she was attacked by three men and beaten in broad daylight for wearing a skirt.
The government on Wednesday denounced the “very serious” incident as unacceptable.
The student, aged 22, identified only as Elisabeth, said she was punched in the face in the eastern city of Strasbourg on Friday afternoon, in an attack “by three individuals who complained about me wearing a skirt”. She was walking home when one of the three exclaimed “look at that [expletive] in a skirt”, Elisabeth told France Bleu Alsace radio. Two of them then held her while the third hit her in the face, leaving her with a black eye, she told France Bleu Alsace radio. The men then fled.
She said there were over a dozen witnesses but no one intervened or pursued the attackers. A picture of Elisabeth’s bruised face was posted on the Twitter account of France Bleu Alsace and went viral, provoking fury among social media users. “The facts as stated are very serious,” said government spokesman Gabriel Attal. “In France we must be able to go out dressed in the street as we want. We cannot accept that today in France, a woman feels in danger, either harassed, threatened or beaten because of how she dresses.”
Junior interior minister Marlene Schiappa, in charge of equality issues, visited Strasbourg on Wednesday to discuss the safety of women in public. “When we witness street harassment, sexist or sexual assault against women in a public space, we must react, and call the police or the gendarmerie,” she told the LCI television channel. President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist government has in recent weeks begun using increasingly tough rhetoric on domestic security issues in what analysts see as a shift to the right.
Ministers have particularly lashed out at Islamist extremism, arguing such values have no place in French society.
Will Elizabeth ever wear a skirt again?
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