Stacklin reports: "This was the 15th deadly attack on a female victim in Kunduz in 2012, the human rights organization said."
"Amnesty International is very concerned about the violations against women in Afghanistan." (photo: DailyMail)
14 Year Old Afghan Girl Beheaded for Refusing Marriage
02 December 12
14-year-old Afghan girl was beheaded and killed in an attack by two men, one of whom apparently asked her to marry him.
The attack happened Tuesday, a day before new legislation was introduced in Congress calling on the U.S. government to take steps to help protect Afghan women and girls as the U.S. military prepares to exit Afghanistan.
Gasitina, a student, was beheaded in the Imam Sahib district of Kunduz province. The attack was initially reported by local media, and was confirmed by Amnesty International researcher Horia Mosadiq in an email.
The girl was fetching water when she was accosted, according to reports. The men, who have not been identified, were arrested by police. The girl and her parents had refused a marriage proposal by one of the men, according to the Amnesty International report.
This was the 15th deadly attack on a female victim in Kunduz in 2012, the human rights organization said.
"Amnesty International is very concerned about the violations against women in Afghanistan," said Cristina Finch, director of the organization's Women's Human Rights program.
Amnesty reported a similar incident in October, when a young woman was murdered and her throat slashed. In that case, the woman apparently refused to work as a prostitute.
Although it appears such attacks are increasing in frequency, it may be that the world outside Afghanistan is just beginning to hear about them, Finch said.
On Wednesday, Sen. Bob Casey, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, and Kay Bailey Hutchison, a Republican from Texas, introduced the Afghan Women and Girls' Security Promotion Act. If passed in its current form, the bill addresses how women's security will be monitored as the U.S. military withdraws from the country.
The bill also calls for improved gender sensitivity among Afghanistan's national security forces and recruitment of women within the ranks of those forces.
Amnesty International USA's executive director Suzanne Nossel applauded Casey and Hutchison for introducing the bill.
"As the United States military transitions out of Afghanistan, Afghan women's human rights continue to be at grave risk and demand urgent attention," Nossel said in a statement. "The fate of women will be a crucial determinant of that country's prospects for a stable and prosperous future."
In a report on Afghan violence against women, Amnesty International wrote that one of the justifications of the U.S. military going into the country in 2001 was to ensure the protection of human rights, including women's rights.
"More than 10 years after the overthrow of the Taliban, modest advances have been made for girls and women in Afghanistan," the report said. "But much remains to be done. Peace talks between the Taliban, Afghan government and the U.S. jeopardize even these modest gains as the U.S. searches for a quick exit."
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Please give newspaper references to honor-killings, acid-flinging, officially-sanc tioned gang-rapes, murders by rejected suitors, etc. in non-muslim countries.
Check out local papers from around the country. The reason for killing women and children in the U.S. may be different from Afghanistan, but it is still killing women - husbands, boyfriends, fathers.
Women and children have been the target of killing by men for centuries in one form or another, and it defies logic to try to understand the ego, savagery, and indifference toward the victim.
The Jewish (Daily) Forward and its Yiddish Forward counterpart, though now weeklies, have been publishing for 115 years. Why didn't Roosevelt stop them?
After I wrote the above sarcastic comments, I checked this Roosevelt statement to see if it was factual. It was, but your zenophobia has led you much further than TR, with what he wrote, 3 days before he died in 1919, over 10 years after he left office.
He was writing exclusively about language not "native" to the U.S. So, for instance, he made no statement concerning say, Native American languages, including Hawaiian, thanks to our theft of the Islands. He didn't refer to Creole, or Gullah, or in fact Spanish, since a significant portion of the U.S. Southwest was Spanish speaking, a remnant of our capturing and taking over Mexican territories or through acquiring Puerto Rico, or the descendants of the Chinese who built the intercontinenta l railroads. He was writing exclusively about immigrant acculturation.
He wasn't right about everything, of course. He was, however progressive, a product of his times.
He was right about corporations, though, just as Jefferson was, and contrary to the bias of the corporatist, reactionary, Bush/Reagan appointed majority on the Supreme Court.
Xenophobia is spelled with an ex even though it is pronounced with a zee.
No, I am shocked that RSN is actually reporting on this. And yet, somehow the usually Jew-hating RSN bloggers still manage to blame the Repubs.
For a moment there, I thought there was going to be a breath of fresh air. Oh well, there is something to be said for ignoring the danger that lurks beyond your borders. Too bad you won't listen.
This is the kind of story that ought to make left wingers think about what they are supporting when they do thinks like supporting a Palestinian state.
(1) Afghanistan is not Palestine.
(2) If incidents of horrifying violence against women disqualified a particular people from having a self-determinin g state, I think there would be very few actual nations in the world. Maybe a few Pacific island nation-states, but that'd be about it. Certainly the U.S. wouldn't qualify, due to the incidents Glen pointed out above.
That was just a pretext, obviously. Afghanistan was going to be invaded anyway, just like Iraq.
Considering what the Republican state governments are doing to women's rights in USA - I wonder why anybody votes these GOP-snakes into office (although many people do vote against their own best interests - ala FAUX's help)
and Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the Army soldier who is set to be charged in the killings of 16 Afghan civilian men, women and children, spent the weekend in pretrial isolation as military prosecutors prepared a case ...
Where is Amnesty International?
...Drone attacks in Pakistan -
en.wikipedia.or g/wiki/Drone_at tacks_in_Pakist anTotal strikes: 350; Total reported killed: 2,586 – 3,375; Civilians reported .... the number of drones operated by the CIA over Afghanistan and Pakistan doubled.
PLEASE!
We went into Afghanistan to get Bin Laden. He's no longer there. Why are we?
If Muslims want to behave like animals, we have neither the right nor the responsibility to protect them from themselves.
Are we going to assert the right to invade any country that has poor civil rights?
How about fixing our own despicable civil rights record first?
I'm surprised to read " The girl and her parents had refused a marriage proposal ..." So the mother was entitled to speak on this as well?
I'd like to hear from these parents now.
I imagine the world might. Tho I am clueless as to what their position might be.
I do agree that the statements and actions of the US have at times been contradictory, but that is the way the world is, nothing is perfect, nothing is pure, nothing is unselfish.
I don't want things like this happening in the West and I am OK with the West fighting against it in Afghanistan or other places.
The West is NOT fighting in Afghanistan for the cause of human rights. That was never the stated or actual purpose of the invasion. But I do think it is a good thing that the Senators mentioned in the article are now making an effort to promote women's security in that country.
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=wq_lhlIn1e0
This behavior must end.
Women need to be treated with respect.
It's a worldwide issue.
Domestic and intimate partner violence occurs in epidemic proportions, affecting an estimated 6.2 million American women each year, causing injury that is more serious to women than car accidents, muggings, and rapes combined
(Department of Justice (DOJ), 2008).
It is estimated that at least 4 million women experience a serious assault by an
intimate male partner during an average 12-month period. In fact, nearly 95 percent of domestic violence victims are
women (DOJ, 2008).
Several global surveys suggest that half of all women who die from homicide are killed by their current or former husbands or partners.
In Australia, Canada, Israel, South Africa and the United States, 40 to 70 per cent of female murder victims were killed by their partners, according to the World Health Organization.
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) estimates that the annual worldwide number of so-called “honour killing” victims may be as high as 5,000 women.
The reasons may vary but the violence against women is worldwide.
in a moment like this, reading this article, there is nothing we can do to change this event. but we can change our minds. rather than engage a mind filled with anger, aggression, that such an event is possible, we should send out prayers, wishes, that events like this might cease.
recall your state of mind when you began to read this article and as you finished. there is always an opportunity to let go of the violence of our thoughts. mind the gap.
And that the extent of our response should be prayer and wishes?
Are you suggesting that your omniscient god is unaware of of it, and needs us to call his attention to it with prayer?
As far as your cloying remark about the ubiquity of evil - THIS sort of thing is done only by Muslim men.
In case you don't know, they don't use a guillotine. Can you imagine what it is like to saw off a living person's head with a knife?
The horror is unimaginable!
And most of these cases aren't even investigated by the Muslim authorities
Within the first two to four months of the atomic bombings, the acute effects killed 90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000–80,000 in Nagasaki, with roughly half of the deaths in each city occurring on the first day. The Hiroshima prefecture health department estimated that, of the people who died on the day of the explosion, 60% died from flash or flame burns, 30% from falling debris and 10% from other causes. During the following months, large numbers died from the effect of burns, radiation sickness, and other injuries, compounded by illness. In a US estimate of the total immediate and short term cause of death, 15–20% died from radiation sickness, 20–30% from burns, and 50–60% from other injuries, compounded by illness. In both cities, most of the dead were civilians, although Hiroshima had a sizeable garrison.
no, i am not. it is obvious who is at fault. we are responsible for our actions.
on this forum, what more can you do? start where you are. if you think your aggression towards these, "monsters" or my comment is of any benefit or service, think again. violence begins in your mind. it is very obvious to see, reading your response.
i suggested no god, or that such a god is unaware. i suggested that we should perhaps practice awareness and recognize where violence and aggression begins. prayers, wishes, is the first step in changing our mind.
there is nothing overtly sweet about the presence of evil, as you describe it.
if i offend you with my observations and thoughts, i sincerely apologize.
i was suggesting an alternative to our normal process of thinking, as i was reading many of the negative comments on this thread and noticing the aggression. it doesn't help. it certainly doesn't help change the event. if you believe it does help your state of mind, help you become a better human being, more able to help others, i suggest you reevaluate your condition.
The type of passivity in the face of evil that you recommend is one of the main reason evil is triumphant.
Anger is a necessary goad to encourage us to attempt to fight evil.
You may contemplate your navel, or pray to imaginary saviors, but is is fortunate that not everyone is so absurdly passive.
take care,
take care,
He killed people all over the U.S., apparently, including a girl he raped and killed in Anchorage last winter. He kept her in a shed when he took a cruise to the Caribbean and when he got back he photographed her corpse posed as if she were still alive in order to get a "ransom."
The teen may have been Jewish.
Israel Keyes was captured when he went to Wells, Texas, where his white supremacist "Christian Identity Church" was having his sister's wedding. He confessed to cutting up the girl's body with a chain saw and dropping it through a hole in a frozen lake. He also confessed to at least seven other murders including that of a couple in Vermont.
Like you say, those Muslims are terrible people.
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