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‘Honor Murder’ Redux

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20+ dead in ‘honor killing’ reprisal

CNN Video: May 30, 2007:

Hugh Riminton of CNN reports on the ‘honor killing’ investigation and retaliatory massacre.

Twenty random Yezidi men have been murdered in retaliation for the April ‘honor killing’ in Bashika, Iraq, where over 2000 people flocked to watch a teenage Yezidi girl being stoned to death by her family for being seen with a Sunni man.

Read the original CNN article.

Read my own, small commentary.

Police officers witnessing the event did nothing, and no charges have been filed against them or will be.

In the CNN video, the Bashika Police Chief is quoted as saying:

• Things are friendly now, everyone has had their blood, and that’s enough.

Sadly, so long as religion bonds people in irrationality and xenophobia, it will never be enough.

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