Just because you've the good fortune to be born in Singapore,
doesn't mean you should turn a blind eye to the evil in the rest of
the world. Educate yourself.
Below are samples from only 3 countries, but honor killings
continue every single day in many countries across the world. Bear
in mind that, like rapes, only 10% of honor killings are actually
reported as such. The actual incidence of such atrocities are far
higher than reported.
In comparison, honor killings are almost non-existent in
Malaysia and Indonesia. Pakistan, India, Turkey, and the other
countries on the list have much to learn from Malaysia and
Indonesia in this regard.
And honor killings are not merciful painless killing. This is
sadistic punishment as hundreds of bystanders watch without
helping. Young women are burnt alive to death, or have their arms
and legs chopped off while still alive, or buried alive to slowly
suffocate, or have sharp rocks thrown at them until they slowly
die.
Some of the girls do not die, they get their nose or ears
chopped off, or get their faces splashed with concentrated acids,
not just permanently disfiguring them, but worse, permanently
blinding them by destroying their eyes.
Acid attacks get their own article, separate from honor killings
: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_throwing
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Honour killing in Pakistan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_killing_in_Pakistan#Specific_occurrences
In one of the most publicized honour killing cases committed in
Pakistan, Samia Sarwar was murdered by her family in the Lahore
office of well-known human rights activists Asma Jahangir and Hina
Jilani in April 1999. As Sarwar sought assistance for a divorce
from her first cousin, her family arranged her murder after the
shame felt in her attempt to marry a man of her choice. The police
did not make any arrests or pursue prosecution as Sarwar's family
is highly well known in elite, political circles. The 2000
award-winning BBC documentary, "License to Kill," covers Samia's
killing in Pakistan.
Amnesty International reported that on 27 April 2010, Ayman
Udas, a Pashtun singer from the Peshawar area, was shot to death
apparently by her two brothers who "viewed her divorce, remarriage
and artistic career as damaging to family honour." No one was
prosecuted.
A widely reported case was that of Tasleem Khatoon Solangi, 17,
of Hajna Shah village in Khairpur district, which was widely
reported after her father, 57-year-old Gul Sher Solangi, publicized
the case. He alleged his eight months' pregnant daughter was
tortured and killed on March 7, 2008, by members of her village
claiming that she had brought dishonour to the tribe. Solangi's
father claimed that it was orchestrated by her father-in-law, who
accused her of carrying a child conceived out of wedlock,
potentially with the added motive of trying to take over the family
farm.
In August 2008, five women were killed by tribesmen of the
Umrani Tribe of Balochistan. The five victims – three teens, and
two middle-aged women – were kidnapped, beaten, shot, and then
buried alive because they refused the tribal leader's marriage
arrangements and wanted to marry men of their own choosing. Local
politicians may have been involved in the murders. Syed Iqbal
Haider commented that the Pakistani government had been very slow
to react. Senator Israr Ullah Zehri defending the killings,
stating, "these are centuries-old traditions and I will continue to
defend them.'
On 27 May 2014 a pregnant woman named Farzana Iqbal (née
Parveen) was stoned to death by her family in front of a Pakistani
High Court for eloping and marrying the man she loved, Muhammad
Iqbal. Police investigator Mujahid quoted the father as saying: "I
killed my daughter as she had insulted all of our family by
marrying a man without our consent, and I have no regret over it."
Muhammad Iqbal stated that it had been a prolonged engagement, and
Farzana's father had become enraged only after Iqbal refused a
demand for more money than the originally agreed amount of the
bride price. Muhammad Iqbal strangled his first wife so that he
would be free to marry Farzana, and police said he had been
released after that murder when a "compromise" was reached with his
first wife's family.
In July 2016, popular Pakistani social media celebrity Qandeel
Baloch was strangled by her brother in an act of honour killing in
Multan in the province of Punjab. She had reportedly raised
controversy by posting controversial pictures of herself on social
media, including one alongside a Muslim cleric, and her brothers
had asked her to stop. The state was named as complainant in
Qandeel's murder case, making it impossible for her family to
pardon her killers. Qandeel's brother Waseem was arrested on the
charges of murder. He confessed to murdering his sister, saying
"she (Qandeel Baloch) was bringing disrepute to our family's honour
and I could not tolerate it any further. I killed her around 11:30
p.m. on Friday night when everyone else had gone to bed."
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Honour killing in India
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_killing#India
Haryana is notorious for incidents of honor killings, mainly in
the upper caste of society, among Rajputs and Jats. Honor killings
have been described as "chillingly common in villages of Haryana
dominated by the lawless 'khap panchayats' (caste councils of
village elders)". In a landmark judgement in March 2010, Karnal
district court ordered the execution of five perpetrators of an
honor killing in Kaithal, and imprisoning for life the khap (local
caste-based council) chief who ordered the killings of Manoj
Banwala (aged 23) and Babli (aged 19), a man and woman of the same
clan who eloped and married in June 2007. Despite having been given
police protection on court orders, they were kidnapped; their
mutilated bodies were found a week later in an irrigation canal. In
2013, a young couple who were planning to marry were murdered in
Garnauthi village, Haryana, due to having a love affair. The woman,
Nidhi, was beaten to death and the man, Dharmender, was dismembered
(chopped into pieces while still) alive. People in the village and
neighbouring villages approved of the killings.
The Indian state of Punjab also has a large number of honor
killings. According to data compiled by the Punjab Police, 34 honor
killings were reported in the state between 2008 and 2010: 10 in
2008, 20 in 2009, and four in 2010. Bhagalpur in the eastern Indian
state of Bihar has also been notorious for honor killings. Recent
cases include a 16-year-old girl, Imrana, from Bhojpur who was set
on fire inside her house in a case of what the police called 'moral
vigilantism'. The victim had screamed for help for about 20 minutes
before neighbours arrived, only to find her smouldering body. She
was admitted to a local hospital, where she later died from her
injuries. In May 2008, Jayvirsingh Bhadodiya shot his daughter
Vandana Bhadodiya and struck her on the head with an axe. Honor
killings occur even in Delhi.
Honor killings take place in Rajasthan, too. In June 2012, a man
chopped off his 20-year-old daughter's head with a sword in
Rajasthan after learning that she was dating men. According to
police officer, "Omkar Singh told the police that his daughter
Manju had relations with several men. He had asked her to mend her
ways several times in the past. However, she did not pay heed. Out
of pure rage, he chopped off her head with the sword".
In 1990 the National Commission for Women set up a statutory
body in order to address the issues of honor killings among some
ethnic groups in North India. This body reviewed constitutional,
legal and other provisions as well as challenges women face. The
NCW's activism has contributed significantly towards the reduction
of honor killings in rural areas of North India. According to
Pakistani activists Hina Jilani and Eman M Ahmed, Indian women are
considerably better protected against honor killings by Indian law
and government than Pakistani women, and they have suggested that
governments of countries affected by honor killings use Indian law
as a model in order to prevent honor killings in their respective
societies.
In June 2010, scrutinising the increasing number of honor
killings, the Supreme Court of India demanded responses about honor
killing prevention from the federal government and the state
governments of Punjab, Haryana, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan,
Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
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Honour killing in Turkey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_killing#Turkey
A report by UNFPA identified the following situations as being
common triggers for honor killings: a married woman having an
extra-marital relationship; a married woman running away with a
man; a married woman getting separated or divorced; a divorced
woman having a relationship with another man; a young unmarried
girl having a relationship; a young unmarried girl running away
with a man; a woman (married or unmarried) being kidnapped and/or
raped.
In 2010 a 16-year-old girl was buried alive by relatives for
being friendly with boys in Southeast Turkey; her corpse was found
40 days after she went missing.
Honor killings continue to receive some support in the
conservative regions of Turkey. In 2005, A small survey in
Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey found that, when asked the
appropriate punishment for a woman who has committed adultery, 37%
of respondents said she should be killed, while 21% said her nose
or ears should be cut off.
A July 2008 Turkish study by a team from Dicle University on
honor killings in the Southeastern Anatolia Region, the
predominantly Kurdish area of Turkey, has so far shown that little
if any social stigma is attached to honor killing.
There are well documented cases, where Turkish courts have
sentenced whole families to life imprisonment for an honor killing.
The most recent was on 13 January 2009, where a Turkish Court
sentenced five members of the same Kurdish family to life
imprisonment for the honor killing of Naile Erdas, a 16-year-old
girl who got pregnant as a result of rape.
