A Horror

A Kurdish journalist I know from Sulaimaniya sent me the links to video documentation of a truly horrifying case: a young Yezidi woman who was stoned to death in public for, apparently, a relationship with a Sunni man. Don’t watch unless you have a very strong stomach; it’s a terrifying reminder of how brutal “honor based” social codes can be.

Kurdish Aspect has the story, as does Amnesty International.



One Response to “A Horror”

  1. Thanks for posting this. I didn’t watch the videos, but since I read about it yesterday morning, I have been unable to get that poor girl out of my mind.

    Her name is Duâ??a Khalil Aswad.