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I am rather surprised that no one mentioned this horrific story carried by AP. I had heard of such things regarding Palestinian youths but this is the first time I have heard of such an "honour" killing for a 12 year old girl.
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Girl buried alive for having male friends
The father and grandfather of a Turkish teenager are to face trial for burying her alive because her friendship with boys had brought dishonour on the family.
A coroner said Medine Memi's body had been found bound and in sitting position in a two-metre hole dug beneath a chicken coop outside her home in Kahta in southeastern Turkey, 40 days after she had disappeared. The hole had been cemented over. According to a post-mortem examination, the large amount of soil in her lungs and stomach showed she had been buried alive and suffered a slow, agonising death. "The girl, who had no bruises on her body or sign of narcotics or poison in her blood, was conscious when she was buried," said one official involved in the case.
She had tried to report to police that she had been beaten by her father and grandfather days before she was killed. "She tried to take refuge at the police station three times and was sent home," her mother, Immihan, said after Memi's body was discovered in December. Memi's father is reported as saying at the time: "She has male friends. We're uneasy about that."
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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