Sunday, November 07, 2010

Should you get killed for celebrating Diwali? Honour killings in India..

Two years ago, two events of immense significance took place in the village of Kaluvas in Haryana.

A young man from this village, Vijender Singh won a bronze medal for India, at the Olympic Games in Beijing, putting this village in the global limelight.

Two months after that in November, during the Diwali festival, two teenage girls became victims of a brutal gang attack by the villagers. They were stoned, and hacked with machetes and axes. As they lay unconscious and bleeding, they were doused with gasoline and burnt alive. The entire community then participated in a conspiracy of silence to hide their crime. More...

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