More sick cultures in rehab
LA Times engages the freaky dowry crimes in India, which, oddly enough, seem to involve an awful lot of woman on woman violence. This one involves women who beat and even kill their daughters-in-law to extort dowry or to punish them for inadequate dowry:
Yet Devi, 27, is one of the lucky ones: Her name was not added to the list of thousands of wives who are beaten to death, burned alive, electrocuted, poisoned, pushed out windows or otherwise killed horrifically every year because their husbands’ families are dissatisfied with the dowries they bring to the marriage and continue to demand more.
In 2005, the most recent year for which figures are available, a woman was killed over dowry every 77 minutes in India, according to the National Crime Records Bureau. The total of such homicides was 6,787, but experts suspect that the true figure is much higher, because many dowry killings are not reported. Even when they are, most of the killers go unpunished.
Another reminder that Western values have much to offer a world steeped in creepiness everywhere you look — much of it aimed at women. This includes China’s infanticide and abandonment of girls, genital mutilation by Muslims in Egypt and Africa, and, of course, the Indian issue outlined here.
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