Monday, April 17, 2006

Cruelty and honour

How utterly cruel...
It's not often that I'm speechless, but this is just too much.
It's a reminder that some people are cold as ice, and can not see anything but black and white.
And then they label this as honour...?

Story:
A woman is being cared for by social services in Sicily after losing her home and her job for collaborating with police against an alleged rapist.

The woman, who has not been named, was sacked by her employer and evicted by her brother, even though her help enabled criminal charges to be brought against an alleged murderer.

The affair is a reminder of the persistence in parts of southern Italy of age-old concepts of honour and a prejudice against helping the authorities that.

The 38-year-old woman was asleep in the house she shared with her brother when she was attacked by an intruder who had climbed in from a balcony.

She fled to a bathroom, but her attacker kicked in the door. By then, however, he and his intended victim had made so much noise that neighbours appeared in the street and on terraces to see what was going on.

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