Reuters: The bodies of Sunita Devi (L), 21, and her partner Jasbir Singh, 22, lie on the ground after they were killed by villagers in an "honour killing" in Ballah village in the northern Indian state of Haryana May 9, 2008. Growing economic opportunities for young people and lower castes in Haryana have made "love marriages" more common, experts say, and the violent repression of them has risen in tandem as upper caste Jat men fight to hold on to power, status and property.
BALLA, India (Reuters) - Five armed men burst into the small room and courtyard at dawn, just as 21-year-old, 22-week pregnant, Sunita was drying her face on a towel.
They punched and kicked her stomach as she called out for her sleeping boyfriend "Jassa", 22-year-old Jasbir Singh, witnesses said. When he woke, both were dragged into waiting cars, driven away and strangled.
Their bodies, half-stripped, were laid out on the dirt outside Sunita's father's house for all to see, a sign that the family's "honor" had been restored by her cold-blooded murder.
A week later, the village of Balla, just a couple of hours drive from India's capital New Delhi, stands united behind the act, proud, defiant almost to a man. More here:
They punched and kicked her stomach as she called out for her sleeping boyfriend "Jassa", 22-year-old Jasbir Singh, witnesses said. When he woke, both were dragged into waiting cars, driven away and strangled.
Their bodies, half-stripped, were laid out on the dirt outside Sunita's father's house for all to see, a sign that the family's "honor" had been restored by her cold-blooded murder.
A week later, the village of Balla, just a couple of hours drive from India's capital New Delhi, stands united behind the act, proud, defiant almost to a man. More here:
WTF is wrong with these people? I mean, it takes a severely retarded person to defend this type of behavior -- SEVERELY RETARDED. I don't care what your religion says -- if you don't have enough brains to figure out the difference between right and wrong then you're a dangerous mf'r.
On the other hand, if you know what you're doing is going to get you killed and you keep it up -- well -- you aren't the brightest bulb in the sign either.
Upper Caste -- Lower Caste -- honor killings -- a country with a billion peeps, most of whom appear to be dangerous morons -- What's going to happen eventually? I'll let you put it together.
Reuters: "From society's point of view, this is a very good thing," said 62-year-old farmer Balwan Arya, sitting smoking a hookah in the shade of a tree in a square with other elders from the village council or panchayat. "We have removed the blot."Yes -- and how long until these genius "elders" think America is a "blot" that must be removed?
Hey -- where is the very useful UN? Are they busy condemning this? Are they doing a damn thing to stop this? Or are they too busy trying to find the next thing for which to condemn the United States -- the greatest economy and most generous nation on earth.
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The UN is the most useless org. ever and those people ( Balla, India ) are f***ing morons, which makes them very exceptible UN representatives.
Good question, Evil Klown. I can't speak to the case of India specifically, but many countries in which these crimes are indigenous have signed all manner of international human rights agreements and covenants with us. Last time I checked, Jordan, for example, was in violation of 17 of them just on dishonor killings alone. So I, too, wonder where is the U.N.? Why aren't these contracts being enforced?
Ellen R. Sheeley, Author
"Reclaiming Honor in Jordan"
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