Father allows half the village to rape his 11 year-old daughter
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- Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 22:59:31 +0100
Father allows half the village to rape his 11 year-old daughter
August 31 2002, a special anti-terrorist court in Pakistan sentenced six
men to death by hanging for the gang rape of a 30 year old woman ordered
by a tribal council in Southern Punjab.
The case was widely reported upon in the western media, and drew the
condemnation of international human rights groups.
News of another news rape case, this time in Belgium, also broke in the
same week. This case did not received nearly as much coverage. 19
members of the same village were found guilty of systematically raping
or sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl who had been prostituted by her
own father. The men who abused her included the family doctor, the
village lumberjack, the car repairman and the village antique-shop
owner. They were given sentences ranging from six months up to five
years.
Both cases are just too horrific to comprehend, never mind compare. But
what can be compared, and should be compared, is the way in which the
Belgian case and the Pakistani case were covered in the Western media.
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