NASREEN BALOCH
Turbat, Kech
Dawn.com (Pakistan)
ACID, cheap and easily available, is the quickest weapon to destroy a woman’s life. This comes handy in Cambodia, Afghanistan, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and other nearby countries.
Globally, at least 1,500 people in 20 countries are attacked in this way every year: 80 per cent of whom are women and somewhere between 40 per cent and 70 per cent of them under 18 years of age.
In South Asia people use acid to attack their victims as a form of revenge for refusal to sexual advances, proposals of marriage and demands for dowry.
In November 2008 extremists subjected schoolgirls in Afghanistan to acid attacks for attending school.
In Cambodia, it was reported that these attacks were mostly carried out by wives against their husbands’ lovers.
In 2006 a group in Gaza calling itself ‘Just sword of Islam’ claimed to have thrown acid at young women who were dressed ‘immodestly’ and warned other women to wear hijab.
In India, acid attacks on women who dared to refuse a man’s proposal of marriage or asked for divorce are common form of revenge.
The number of acid attacks has been rising in India and there have been 68 reported acid attacks in the state of Karnatak since 1999.
Tom O’Neil of National Geographic reported that acid throwing is also used to enforce the caste system in modern India, where upper caste individuals often attack Dalits for supposedly violating the order.
According to Rand Corporation commentary, hundreds of women in Pakistan and Afghanistan have been blinded or maimed when acid was thrown on their unveiled faces by male fanatics who considered them improperly dressed.
Attacks or threats of attacks on women who don’t wear hijab or otherwise ‘immodestly dressed’ have been reported in other countries as well.
The government must rise to the occasion and do its utmost to put a stop to this barbaric practice by dealing sternly with those who take recourse to such an inhuman practice, and also make availability of acids next to impossible.
4 comments:
How can Govt. do?
Khmer have no job go to oversea and opposite the Viet workers get job in Cambodia.
i bet strict and harsh law will discourage people from using acid, etc to hurt, maim, or kill other human being. try the law, make it punitive with hard labor in prison, etc, that will educate the culprit to think twice before committing such crime, you know.
if their spouse cheated, etc, how about getting a divorce? is divorce in cambodian vocabulary? then use it wisely, ok!
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