Just returned from Germany, where there is a lot more coverage to the following case than is elsewhere:
If that is not barbaric enough, listen to the execution method. Ashtiani will be buried up to her chest, and the process will then begin. The stones that will be hurled at her will be large enough to cause pain but not so large as to kill her immediately.
(All sourced from CNN).
I don't know where we, as a human race, are headed. If this is not the age of Kali, then what is?
At least Adultery and Murder Charges are there against Sakineh even if she may not have committed them! She is in a better off position-only relatively speaking
ReplyDeleteWhat about women in Afghanisthan who are shot to death because the socks on the legs were visible to men who happened to be around and see them when they were shopping?
Well, one should keep emotions and brains aside when deliberating on Afghanistan.
ReplyDeleteAs an aside, the American exit strategy for Iraq has been through Afghanistan. Let's hope something worthwhile comes out their holiday there. And talking about holiday, with over a Trillion Dollars in mineral reserves just discovered in Afghanistan, it will surely be a long holiday for the Americans.