Pathetic. Shameful. Disgusting. My first reaction to the news was this. It actually made me physcially sick. The news?
That a young woman and her mother were kidnapped and raped by a Minister of State Raza Hayat Heraj men. The reason? The girl belonging to the lower caste had dared to study and get a Master’s Degree. The family was celeberating but not for long.
According to the Asian Human Rights Commission
“Ghazala Shaheen and her mother were abducted from their house at 1:00 am by the henchmen of Mr. Raza Hayat Heraj who is a Minister of State on 25 August 2006. The victims were only freed after local villagers took action and stormed a house, while detaining the perpetrators on September 5.
The father of the girl was also so severely beaten by the minister’s men that he could not move for two days. The police first refused to register the case after the arrest of one of the accused by local people who secured the release of the daughter and mother from the abductors.
The police then arrested one person and released the two other accused. Among them one was the guard of the said minister.However, now the victims are being threatened by high police officials.”
This is disgusting. Even more so if we remain quiet. I would request you to use all means whether it is writing letters to the editor, asking your local press club to take it up etc to raise hell about this.
September 17, 2006 at 6:18 pm
Taking it up in the media or the civil society will perhaps get the guilty to court…but what about those who want to study but belong to THAT caste of young Ghazala Shaheen and her mother? who will think for rest of ‘those’ who perhaps will now think twice before sending their daughters to a school …leave aside higher education? who will rasie hell sbout the deeper naunce of not just raping one Ghazala but all the Ghazala’s of present and worst of future?
September 18, 2006 at 9:46 am
Important questions that you ask. But perhaps getting the “guilty” to court is the first step. Getting Ghazala “justice” for whatever it is worth is the second step. Than the other steps would follow. Many would undoubtedly shy away from sending their daughters to school. But if they see that the guilty are let off scot free , the ones whose daughters are already studying would stop.
I know I ‘m not making sense. Perhaps because this whole issue is one to which logic can’t be applied. All I know .. ( and I know I sound terribly juvinile as I write this) THIS IS WRONG.
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