By #HonorKilling: Two Brothers Kill Their Sister As One Allegedly Flees To Canada
Two brothers whose names are yet to be revealed had been said to have killed their sister in what is termed as honor killing in Pakistan.
It was gathered that the deceased, Esraa Ghareeb, was killed by her brothers whose pictures are attached in the story but the family is making efforts to shield them from possible prosecution.
A concerned friend @f_almatar wrote on Twitter, “Two Palestinian brothers killed their sister “Esraa Ghareeb” (Honor Killing).
The brother on the right (in group pic) and pictures on the right, fled to Canada after the murder. I hope the Canadian authorities arrest and prosecute him, ” she said.
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She stated further that “Esraa’s family are denying that her brothers murdered her, in an attempt to protect the murderers. They’re trying to make it look like suicide. So the sources are not official, they are from Esraa’s friends who know that Esraa did not kill herself”.
When BlackBox Nigeria checked what this means on Wikipedia, it reveals that, “honor killing or shame killing is the murder of a member of a family, due to the perpetrators’ belief that the victim has brought shame or dishonor upon the family, or has violated the principles of a community or a religion, usually for reasons such as divorcing or separating from their spouse, refusing to enter an arranged marriage, being in a relationship that is disapproved by their family, having premarital or extramarital sex, becoming the victim of rape or sexual assault, dressing in ways which are deemed inappropriate, engaging in non-heterosexual relations or renouncing a faith.”
This sort of mundane act of killing in Pakistan is known locally as karo-kari. Pakistan is said to have the highest number of documented and estimated honour killings per capita of any country in the world; about one-fifth of the world’s honour killings are performed in Pakistan.
According to Wikipedia, “In 2011, human rights groups reported 720 honour killings in Pakistan (605 women and 115 men), while Pakistan’s Human Rights Commission reported that in 2010 there were 791 honour killings in the country, and Amnesty International cited 960 incidents of women alone who were slain in honour killings that year.”
