Double Femicide in Iraq
The mind boggles: How does the ROP justify this?
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Radio Derb listeners may recall my segment two weeks ago on the murder of a 17-year-old girl in Basra, stomped and stabbed to death by her father and brothers after she had been seen talking to a British soldier. The father and brothers are now local heroes. The police detained the father for a short time, then sent him on his way with their congratulations. The mother, Leila Hussein, in a singular act of courage, left her husband, telling a British newspaper that: “I would prefer to be killed than sleep in the same bed as a man who was able to do what he did to his own daughter.”
Now comes the news that Leila Hussein was murdered while trying to arrange an escape from Iraq.