Viewing the two-minute video of barbarity accompanying this article from the UK newspaper The Guardian will require that you have a very strong stomach.
The “punishment,” which is to say torture, being meted out to this seventeen-year-old girl — “on suspicion of having had an illicit relationship with a married man” and without a trial — is being circulated widely throughout Pakistan as a positive (!) example of Taliban justice. It is, instead, pure and simple evil.
April 7, 2009 at 12:51 pm |
Tunku Varadarajan offers this assessment in Forbes.