Somali rape victim, 13, stoned to death
Posted by: hrforall on: November 2, 2008
MOGADISHU, Nov 2 – A 13-year-old girl who said she had been raped was stoned to death in Somalia after being accused of adultery by Islamic militants, a human rights group said.
Dozens of men stoned Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow to death Oct 27 in a stadium packed with 1,000 spectators in the southern port city of Kismayo, Amnesty International and Somali media reported, citing witnesses. The Islamic militia in charge of Kismayo had accused her of adultery after she reported that three men had raped her, the rights group said.
Initial local media reports said Duhulow was 23, but her father told Amnesty International she was 13. Some of the Somali journalists who first reported the killing later told Amnesty International that they had reported she was 23 based upon her physical appearance.
Calls to Somali government officials and the local administration in Kismayo rang unanswered Saturday.
“This child suffered a horrendous death at the behest of the armed opposition groups who currently control Kismayo,” David Copeman, Amnesty International’s Somalia campaigner, said in a statement Friday.
Somalia is among the world’s most violent and impoverished countries. The nation of some 8 million people has not had a functioning government since warlords overthrew a dictator in 1991 then turned on each other.
A quarter of Somali children die before age 5; nearly every public institution has collapsed. Fighting is a daily occurrence, with violent deaths reported nearly every day.
Islamic militants with ties to al-Qaida have been battling the government and its Ethiopian allies since their combined forces pushed the Islamists from the capital in December 2006. Within weeks of being driven out, the Islamists launched an insurgency that has killed thousands of civilians.
In recent months, the militants appear to be gaining strength. The group has taken over the port of Kismayo, Somalia’s third-largest city, and dismantled pro-government roadblocks. They also effectively closed the Mogadishu airport by threatening to attack any plane using it. – AP
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1 | ashia2008
November 11, 2008 at 12:18 pm
WE ARE ALL AISHA. WE SHOULD PUT A STOP TO THIS.
Aisha was a 13 years old girl, who was stoned to death on the 27th of October this2008 in Somalia. This is just a one of the million inhumanity committed against women in the name of Islam in Somalia and other countries where Islam and Sheria is practiced.
What makes this an embarrassing issue is the fact that Aisha was only 13 year old! And that she was raped, as if that was not enough stoned to death. What was done to Aisha was done to women throughout in the Islamic society through generation, isn’t it time to say ENOUGH? As a woman I am ashamed of my religion and as a Somali I have no words to describe the indignant crime committed against this child.
I therefore call upon all Muslims woman to stands up and say NO MORE to this. NO MORE abuse, discrimination, violation and mutilation. Not of cause forgetting all the millions of barbaric actions committed against us just because we were born women.
I personally condemn de disgraceful death of Aisha May God rest your soul in peace, Your died in the hands of blood thirsty men who call themselves Muslims.
We will not forget you Aisha, and we will fight for this never to happen again.
Join me all, and remember that WE ARE ALL AISHA. WE SHOULD PUT A STOP TO THIS.
Ashia Ismail Hussein
Save a Girl Save a Generation.
Thank you so much for your comments. We in Malaysia are simply outraged and appalled by the stoning of this young girl. I hope all the pepertrators are caught and punished for this barbaric and gruesome act.