The shame of honour killings

clipped from english.aljazeera.net Du'a Khalil Aswad was a member of the minority Kurdish Yezidi group. Her death by stoning was recorded and posted on the internet. According to the United Nations, 5,000 women and girls are victims of so-called honour killings annually. Whether it is because they have been seen talking to a man, refusing an arranged marriage, or even suffering rape, they are murdered for one reason only; they are perceived to have brought shame on their family. It is often the family that carries out the sentence.