pr126
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 Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 2:07 am Post subject: Afghan children raped with 'impunity' |
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Afghan children raped with 'impunity,' U.N. official says
| Quote: | (CNN) -- The young Afghan girl sits in the center of the room, weeping. Using her hand and her blue scarf to hide her face, she recounts how she was brutally raped by five gunmen.
The girl's tragic case is one of many in war-torn Afghanistan, activists say.
The 12-year-old girl's family members say they'll take their own lives unless justice is served.
"We will all commit suicide; this is not living," cries the mother of the girl, whose gang-rape occurred in Northern Afghanistan.
The girl's adolescent voice pleads for help from Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan.
The girl's elderly and immobilized father trembles and can only raise a quivering hand as he sobs. He is rendered helpless in a country where a man's dignity and honor is protecting his family.
Her little brother sits in the back, far too young to understand the situation but still traumatized by the devastated cries around him. He wipes away his tears.
The children's mother sobs. "We've been violated. We can't live our lives. We can't sit. We can't sleep at night," she says.
Video of the crushed family aired on the privately owned Ariana TV two weeks ago before it was posted on the Internet by an activist group, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan.
In a country riddled with corruption, despair and lawlessness, the family has risked their lives by coming forward. |
Qur'an 24:4 says: "And those who accuse honourable women but bring not four witnesses, scourge them (with) eighty stripes and never (afterward) accept their testimony - They indeed are evil-doers."
Muhammad announced the "four witnesses" revelation in Sura 24 in order to exonerate Aisha of rumors of adultery, thus supplying a the provision in Sharia law that has served to protect perpetrators of sex crimes. Together with the attitude taken toward women and girls as possessions, it is not difficult to see why "women and girls, especially young girls, are the most unprotected people of Afghanistan."
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