Burned Alive SouadPaperback
Burned Alive SouadPaperback When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. This was her crime. In her village, as in so many others, sex before marriage was considered a grave dishonour to one's family…
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Burned Alive SouadPaperback
When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. This was her crime. In her village, as in so many others, sex before marriage was considered a grave dishonour to one's family and was punishable by death.
One morning while Souad was washing the family's clothes, he crept up on her, poured petrol over her and set her alight.In the eyes of their community he was a hero. Her brother-in-law was given the task of arranging her punishment. An execution for a 'crime of honour' was a respectable duty unlikely to bring about condemnation from others.
It certainly would not have provoked calls for his prosecution. More than five thousand cases of such honour killings are reported around the world each year and many more take place that we hear nothing about.Miraculously, Souad survived rescued by the women of her village, who put out the flames and took her to a local hospital.