Burned Alive
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When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. In her village, as in so many others, sex before marriage was considered a grave dishonour to ones family and was punishable by death. This was her crime. Her brother-in-law was given the task of arranging her punishment. One morning while Souad was washing the familys clothes, he crept up on her, poured petrol over her and set her alight.
In the eyes of their community he was a hero. 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. Horrifically burned, and abandoned by her family and community, it was only the intervention of a European aid worker that enabled Souad to receive t
Author:
Souad
Cover:
Paperback
Language:
ENG
Number of pages:
336
Publisher:
Bantam Press
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