KARACHI (Reuters) -A viral video of the "honour killing" of a woman and her lover in a remote part of Pakistan has ignited national outrage, prompting scrutiny of long-standing tribal codes and calls for justice in a country where such killings often pass in silence. While hundreds of so-called honour killings are reported in Pakistan each year, often with little public or legal response, the video of a woman and man accused of adultery being taken to the desert by a group of men to be killed has struck a nerve. The video shows the woman, Bano Bibi, being handed a Koran by a man identified by police as her brother.

KARACHI (Reuters) -A viral video of the “honour killing” of a woman and her lover in a remote part of Pakistan has ignited national outrage, prompting scrutiny of long-standing tribal codes and calls for justice in a country where such killings often pass in silence.

While hundreds of so-called honour killings are reported in Pakistan each year, often with little public or legal response, the video of a woman and man accused of adultery being taken to the desert by a group of men to be killed has struck a nerve.

The mother, Gul Jan Bibi, said the killings were carried out by family and local elders based on “centuries-old Baloch traditions”, and not on the orders of the tribal chief.

“We did not commit any sin,” she said in a video statement that also went viral. “Bano and Ehsan were killed according to our customs.”

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    1 day ago

    What strikes me about these stories is that the defense is always some flavor of ‘tradition’, but seeing that something like this could entail changes in secular law in order to right an obvious wrong was a nice surprise on a dreary Monday morning.