MSNBC features Pakistani acid and fire burn victims in an article and pictorial today.
According to Liaqat and a lawyer for her case, she was married in her teens, on paper, to a relative, but the families had agreed she wouldn’t live with him until she finished school. Within months, though, the man started demanding she join him.
One day at the end of July 2003, he showed up at their house with a package. He asked her to get him some water. He followed her to the kitchen, and as she turned around with the water, she says, he doused her with the acid. It seared much of her face, blinded her right eye, and seriously weakened her left one.
They might say it’s “part of their culture” or based on their “religious beliefs,” but there’s no question this behavior is barbaric, inhumane, and down-right fucked up.
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