Saturday, October 13, 2007

Honour Killing: Syria

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And on it goes.

Seventeen-year-old Bushra is too scared to give her real name. She talks in a low, trembling voice, her face full of fear.

"They want to shed my blood, they want to kill me," she says, as she recounts how she escaped being murdered by members of her own family in a so-called "honour killing".


A Sunni Muslim, she had fallen in love with Fadel, from Syria's Alawite Muslim minority. He went to her family to ask for her hand in marriage, but he was rejected.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

March 21, 2013

http://www.infowars.com/gruesome-video-shows-syrian-rebel-beheading-civilian/