The Girl Who Lost Her Face

[pastafreak]

Unreported World on c4...watch on catch-up if you can.
The story of one of the many Bangladeshi victims of acid attacks. Very moving,such a brave young woman who was punished for spurning a suitor.

[ummmm]

Yeah....so sad.

[Hypognosis]

@pastafreak

Without wishing to suggest that it would, *if* such an attack meant that the woman, ultimately, never married or had children wouldn't that count as a mini-genocide? I would count all the potential descendents as casualties, too.

It's probably not being punished as sternly as murder under local law but I see it as being just as severe as that.

[pastafreak]

@Hypo....I was thinking along similar lines. These young women are not just scarred physically...they are rejected by those closest to them and carry a lifelong stigma. The "blame" is on them,and the only people who can/will support them are fellow victims.

[VHG]

Sadly we have imported people from Asia in to this country who now do the same thing here.

[Hypognosis]

@VHG

Oh?

Well, the most the perpetrator would get would be a spell inside, for GBH. An improvement on getting away scot-free, as in the sub-continent but not permanent, like the damage done.

One loose end: It's only a decade or so since arranged marriages were the subject of western concerns. Are these victims among the first generations to be allowed to make their own partner choices?