MUSLIM TEEN GIRL BURIED ALIVE FOR TALKING TO BOYS

Subject:	MUSLIM TEEN GIRL BURIED ALIVE FOR TALKING TO BOYS
Date:	Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:49:12 GMT

Turkish Teen Buried Alive for Talking to Boys

By Terence Neilan, Contributor
AOL News
Friday, February 5, 2010

Honor killings are not something new to many people in Turkey. But
the death of a 16-year-old girl who was buried alive for talking to
boys has been revealed to be a particularly gruesome killing and has
stirred strong reactions.

"The autopsy result is bloodcurdling," an unidentified official told
the Anatolia news agency [1] Thursday, Agence France-Press reported.
"According to our findings, the girl -- who had no bruises on her
body and no sign of narcotics or poison in her blood -- was alive and
fully conscious when she was buried."

The girl's father and grandfather are to be put on trial for burying
her alive, reportedly because they thought her friendship with boys
had brought shame and dishonor to the family.

The body of Medine Memi was found in a sitting position with hands
tied in a 6½-foot hole under a chicken coop at the family house in
Kahta in southeast Turkey. Police discovered the body following a
tip-off 40 days after she went missing, the agency said.

According to a postmortem examination, the agency added, the girl's
lungs and stomach contained significant amounts of soil, confirming
she was alive when she was buried.

The girl had repeatedly tried to tell the police that she had been
beaten by her father and grandfather, the London Times [2] reported
today. "She tried to take refuge at the police station three times,
and she was sent home three times," her mother, Immihan, said after
the body was discovered in December.

The girl's father, the Times added, was reported as saying at the
time, "She has male friends. We are uneasy about that."

Reaction to the killing was particularly strong in remarks posted on
the Web site of a religious television channel, Samanyolu, the London
paper reported.

"The punishment for whosoever should kill with intent is the hell
where he will languish forever," one poster said, adding, "Allah has
cursed him and prepared great pain for him."

Another comment on the site said, "You named your daughter after the
holy city of Medina but your mind is left over from the earlier Age
of Ignorance."

Honor killings are most prevalent in Turkey's predominantly Kurdish
southeast, the Anatolia agency said. But the practice has spread to
cities and even abroad, largely through migration, with cases
reported in the U.S. and U.K.

[1] http://www.montrealgazette.com/Girl+buried+alive+honour+killing+Turkey+Report/2521342/story.html
[2] http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article7015758.ece

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