What a shame. I understand a parent getting frustrated when a child does not do what they think is right, but don't kill them over it.
Parents found guilty of murdering daughter in ‘honor killing’
LONDON — A jury found the Pakistani parents of a teenage girl guilty of murder Friday — a conviction that came after the girl’s sister turned against her parents, telling a jury how her mother and father suffocated 17-year-old Shafilea with a plastic bag in a so-called honor killing.
The Chester Crown Court found that Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed killed her daughter in 2003 and dumped her body.
Shafilea’s sister Alesha told the jury that her parents pushed Shafilea and then she heard her mother say, “just finish it here.”
British authorities investigated hundreds of cases of forced marriages last year. Some of the cases have ended up in so-called honor killings where relatives believe girls have brought shame on their families — sometimes for refusing marriage, other times for becoming too westernized.
Shafilea was only 10 when she began to rebel against her parents’ strict rules, according to prosecutor Andrew Edis.
Schoolmates described how she would wear western clothes and change before her parents picked her up. Those same schoolmates also reported that Shafilea often went to school crying, describing how her mother would slap her and throw things at her.But it was the last year of her life that was to be the most traumatic, the court heard.
Shafilea began seeing boys, which prompted her parents to keep her at home more.
Despite multiple reports to social services, Shafilea’s file was closed in 2002.
Between November 2002 and January 2003, Shafilea told friends and teachers there had been an increase of assaults.
In February 2003, she ran away with her boyfriend Mushtaq Bagas and told council officers she needed emergency accommodation as her parents were trying to force her into an arranged marriage with her cousin.
In the same month, her parents took her to Pakistan where she drank bleach in protest against the arranged marriage.
When she returned to Britain in May 2003, she was admitted to a hospital because of damage done to her throat.
She was eventually released, but rows over her clothing continued.
Eventually, her parents beat her, stuffed a thin white plastic bag into her mouth and held their hands over her mouth and nose until she “was gone,” her sister testified.
The highest incidence of reported forced marriages is in Muslim communities. Britain is home to more than 1.8 million Muslims.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/14203729-418/parents-found-guilty-of-murdering-daughter-in-honor-killing.html
If you were reading this with a few names switched around you would think it was referring to the President and the Congress.
N. Korea enacts rules on regulating firearms SEOUL,
Aug. 6 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has had a gun control law since 2009, recently obtained data showed Monday, in what was seen as an effort to tighten control over the society at a time of power succession.
North Korea's new leader Kim Jong-un was groomed as the successor to his ailing father Kim Jong-il, with the hereditary succession plan becoming official for the first time in 2010 when the young Kim was named as a four-star general in the military.
Kim Jong-un took the helm of the communist country after the death of his father last December.
The permanent committee of the North's Supreme People's Assembly, its rubber-stamp parliament, established a firearms control act in November 2009, which stipulates rules on the supply, transport, storage and usage of guns and their instruction system, according to the data obtained by Yonhap News Agency.
The law, which comprises of five chapters and 42 articles, "aims to contribute to the guarantee of social safety and the protection of the people's lives and property by setting up the strict system" on registering, storing and using firearms, the North states in its legislation.
Under the regulations, guns are allowed only for its "primary purposes" including executing official duties such as keeping guard and training.
Institutions, businesses, groups and the public are prohibited from possessing or transacting firearms according to the law, which also banned lending, smuggling, destroying and self-producing firearms.
Those who violate the rules, resulting in "stern consequences," are subject to administrative and criminal liabilities, the North says in the law.
Experts say the establishment of such acts is part of Kim Jong-il's efforts to tighten control of the society and maintain strict order following his nomination of his third and youngest son Kim Jong-un to be his successor in early 2009.
"North Korea appeared to have tried to strictly regulate firearms under the circumstances where former leader Kim's stroke in 2008 could lead to a chaos in the society," said Yang Moo-jin, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies.
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2012/08/06/38/0401000000AEN20120806002600315F.HTML
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