Mukhtar Mai: a remarkable story and a remarkable woman!

[Jayhawker Soule]

This is a remarkable story about a truly remarkable woman!

From the BBC News: Tuesday, 8 March, 2005

The rape victim who fought back

When Mukhtar Mai was gang raped in Pakistan in February 2002, she lost her so-called "honour" and, along with it, her chance to lead a normal life in her village. [continued ...]​

From the BBC News: Tuesday, 7 December, 2004

School hope for rape victim

Mukhtar Mai hit the headlines in February 2002 as the victim of a gang rape ordered by a Pakistani tribal council in Meerwala, in southern Punjab.

Nearly three years later, she is working to improve the lives of the next generation of girls in the village with two schools she built with her compensation money. [continued ...]​

From the BBC News: Tuesday, 28 June, 2005

Pakistan rape acquittals rejected

Pakistan's Supreme Court has suspended the acquittals of five men in a notorious gang rape case that has sparked worldwide outrage. [continued ...]​

 

[Yerda]

Thank you very much Deut. She is a remarkable woman, very inspiring.

I'm now going to pester my family to donate to her schools....

 

[michel]

What a wonderful example; thanks for sharing that Deut.........


Ori; if you see this thread - that is just the sort of example I was talking about in your "
The fact that humans 2000 years on are still just as terrible as they have ever been, do you think this could have swayed Jesus' to really question his fathers motives?" Thread.

 

[anders]

Pakistan's Supreme Court has suspended the acquittals of five men in a notorious gang rape case that has sparked worldwide outrage.

According to Swedish and Finnish newspapers today (29/6), there will be new court proceedings towards fourteen men supposed to be primarily involved in the gang rape. Let's hope that is more true.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

Let's hope that is more true.

More true than what?