http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/05/20/mideast.honor.killing/index.html?hpt=C2
(CNN) -- When Ayah Baradiyya stepped out of the door of the large house she shared with her parents and 12 siblings more than a year ago, her parents could not have known this would be the last time they would see their daughter alive.
On her final visit, Ayah returns lifeless, wrapped in a blanket in the back of an ambulance, to be buried in the village cemetery. Thousands of people follow the procession to the cemetery or watch from the streets and rooftops.
Friends and relatives try to console Ayah's mother, who cries out in grief. Fears that have plagued her and her family over the past year are now a certain reality. Ayah will never walk the path to their front doorstep again.
These are scenes of grief and anger, driven by the brutal story of how a 20-year-old student from the small village of Surif, northwest of the city Hebron, met with death.
This is a community in shock, whose grief and anger at Ayah's murder is echoing beyond the pastoral hills of Hebron and into the West Bank.
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extremely disturbing and shocking. having read the entire ordeal of this poor innocent woman, i am left to wonder, even though i am in total disagreement with this whole "honor killing" thing, who is the person/s who actually do the killing if the "suspect" is supposedly guilty for some other reason. how is it that the uncle, in this case, could take it upon himself to decide that he could be the judge and jury here and murder his niece because he suspected she had dishonored the family name?
(CNN) -- When Ayah Baradiyya stepped out of the door of the large house she shared with her parents and 12 siblings more than a year ago, her parents could not have known this would be the last time they would see their daughter alive.
On her final visit, Ayah returns lifeless, wrapped in a blanket in the back of an ambulance, to be buried in the village cemetery. Thousands of people follow the procession to the cemetery or watch from the streets and rooftops.
Friends and relatives try to console Ayah's mother, who cries out in grief. Fears that have plagued her and her family over the past year are now a certain reality. Ayah will never walk the path to their front doorstep again.
These are scenes of grief and anger, driven by the brutal story of how a 20-year-old student from the small village of Surif, northwest of the city Hebron, met with death.
This is a community in shock, whose grief and anger at Ayah's murder is echoing beyond the pastoral hills of Hebron and into the West Bank.
continue reading the story.
extremely disturbing and shocking. having read the entire ordeal of this poor innocent woman, i am left to wonder, even though i am in total disagreement with this whole "honor killing" thing, who is the person/s who actually do the killing if the "suspect" is supposedly guilty for some other reason. how is it that the uncle, in this case, could take it upon himself to decide that he could be the judge and jury here and murder his niece because he suspected she had dishonored the family name?
