Video: Pakistan SWAT Valley-17 year old girl Flogged for Being Seen with Man

[terisan]

Pakistan recently ceded control of the Swat Valley to Sharia Law administered by Taliban and Women and Girls are paying the Price as the Newly Empowered Taliban militants Flex their Muscles.


<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/02/taliban-pakistan-justice-women-flogging>


A video showing a teenage girl being flogged by Taliban fighters has emerged from the Swat Valley in Pakistan, offering a shocking glimpse of militant brutality in the once-peaceful district, and a sign of Taliban influence spreading deeper into the country.

The two-minute video, shot using a mobile phone, shows a burka-clad woman face down on the ground. Two men hold her arms and feet while a third, a black-turbaned fighter with a flowing beard, whips her repeatedly.

"Please stop it," she begs, alternately whimpering or screaming in pain with each blow to the backside. "Either kill me or stop it now."

A crowd of men stands by, watching silently. Off camera a voice issues instructions. "Hold her legs tightly," he says as she squirms and yelps.

After 34 lashes the punishment stops and the wailing woman is led into a stone building, trailed by a Kalashnikov-carrying militant.

Reached by phone, Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan claimed responsibility for the flogging. "She came out of her house with another guy who was not her husband, so we must punish her. There are boundaries you cannot cross," he said. He defended the Taliban's right to thrash women shoppers who were inappropriately dressed, saying it was permitted under Islamic law.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. You can talk about cultural differences all you want...

But this is barbaric to me.

[ZombieHorde]

2. Depraved. nt

[pnwmom]

3. The real reason was that she refused to marry a powerful man.

According to many of the reports.

[hedgehog]

4. Notice that they lifted her burka to do the flogging. James Michener,

in his novel Chesapeake, took notice that it is mostly young women who are whipped, not old women. In other words, some men get off on beating good looking girls.