Monday, January 30, 2012
An Afghan woman has been arrested for helping strangle her daughter-in-law to death because she gave birth to an undesired third daughter
Mother-in-law Wali Hazrata is said to have tied the feet of 22-year-old Stori, which allowed the victim's local militia member husband Sher Mohammad to strangle her. The murdered woman's husband has since fled and Hazrata is in police custody. Police believe that the murder took place because Stori gave birth to another girl, who are generally seen as a burden in Afghan society. Violence and abuse against women continues to be a major problem in Afghanistan, a decade after U.S.-led troops brought down the Taliban regime. Recently, police found a teen bride who had been locked in a toilet for six months at her husband’s house in neighboring Baghlan province. She was burned and beaten, and had her fingernails pulled out. British charity Oxfam said that 87% of Afghan women report having experienced physical, sexual or psychological violence or forced marriage.
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Women are more likely to be victimized by someone that they are intimate with, commonly called "Intimate Partner Violence" or (IPV). The impact of domestic violence in the sphere of total violence against women can be understood through the example that 40-70% of murders of women are committed by their husband or boyfriend. Studies have shown that violence is not always perpetrated as a form of physical violence but can also be psychological and verbal. In unmarried relationships this is commonly called dating violence, whereas in the context of marriage it is called domestic violence.
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