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Author: waybackjackwaybackjack Date: Apr 22, 2007 08:36
On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 10:26:00 -0500, Topaz hotmail.com>
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MUSLIME MASSACRE OF WOMEN
Women break silence on honour killings
Print
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcast: 18/04/2007
Reporter: David Hardaker
A group of women in the Israeli city of Ramle has broken the code of
silence on a string of honour killings within the city's Arab
community. For one woman, it has meant giving police the evidence to
charge her own son for murdering her daughter.
Transcript
KERRY O'BRIEN: Now, a powerful story of family honour killings in the
Arab community of a small Israeli city named Ramle. Where such
killings are usually accompanied by an unbreakable code of silence, in
Ramle, after a string of deaths, a group of women has broken ranks.
For one woman, it has meant giving police the evidence to charge her
own son for murdering her daughter.
Middle East Correspondent David Hardaker reports.
DAVID HARDAKER: This is the area of Joh Arish (phonetic), a tough Arab
neighbourhood with a tradition of killing.
HAIM SCHREIBHAND, DETECTIVE, RAMLE POLICE: In this house, two girls in
the family have been murdered.
DAVID HARDAKER: The Abu Ghanem family runs this part of town and has
been killing its women in the name of honour. In all, eight young
women have been murdered here in the last six years. The crimes and
the killers protected by a code of silence.
INSPECTOR LIMOR YEHUDA, RAMLE POLICE: You come to a crime scene like
this and all you meet is people which doesn't want to covert with you,
doesn't want to talk, doesn't want to say what they saw, what they
heard, what they know. They're just like ignoring the police. They are
even ignoring the body.
DAVID HARDAKER: Limor Yehuda is part of a small police unit
investigating the honour killings of Joh Arish. The area is part of an
area of Ramle, in Israel, a mixed city of Muslims and Jews. It's a
city where traditional Arab culture collides with the 21st century and
where women who've looked the wrong way have paid with their lives.
INSPECTOR LIMOR YEHUDA: It is terrible to know that in the era of 2007
and such terrible murders happen. Women that get murdered for the way
they dressed or the way they talked, maybe because they talked on the
phone with someone or looked at some guy or even didn't look at some
guy, for stupid, stupid reasons or for no reason.
DAVID HARDAKER: Last year, 19-year-old Reem Abu Ghanem was murdered.
Her crime was to turn her back on the man that her family had picked
for her to marry and fall for another. Her killer turned out to be her
older brother, a respected paediatrician who Reem had trusted for
protection. He smothered Reem in a cloth soaked with anaesthetic drugs
from his hospital. He believed he'd killed her. His four brothers
threw her body into the boot of a car. They drove to a field on the
outskirts of town to a deserted and derelict house, where they would
dispose of her down an old well, but when they arrived, it turned out
that Reem was not dead after all.
So she was still alive. Do you know, did they do anything at that
point before throwing her in?
INSPECTOR LIMOR YEHUDA: Yeah, yeah. After she cried, after she begged
for her life, they used a stone to hit her on the head. And then she
was still alive, she didn't die from the injury. And she was then
thrown out into the well like this. Alive, semi-injured, bleeding, I
guess. It's terrible. It's so cruel, so vicious. But to throw someone
alive when is your relatives, your own flesh and blood, right? It's,
it's very, very difficult to bear.
DAVID HARDAKER: For weeks, no-one breathed a word of what happened
that night.
DR AUNI KHIL, RAMLE COMMUNITY: Some of the community see the killers
as hero. True, as hero. And they are dealing with them as heroes and
this is very, very bad.
DAVID HARDAKER: Dr Auni Khil is part of Ramle's Arab community and
he's been working to stop honour killings, and he is not surprised
that Reem Abu Ghanem's killer was a doctor. As far as he's concerned,
the killings are all about power in a male-dominated society.
DR AUNI KHIL: I think that there is the education in the university
and there is the human being. The connection between the two things
not in this case, there is no connection.
DAVID HARDAKER: Reem's older brother was arrested after a tip-off from
a prison informant. Despite the crime, the women of Joh Arish remained
silent until the killing this year of another of their number. Hamda
Abu Ghanem, also 19, was shot in the head nine times, as she lay in
her bed upstairs alone in her house. Her killer was her own brother.
This time, the women broke their silence. For the Ramle police, it was
extraordinary.
INSPECTOR LIMOR YEHUDA: Wow - huge, huge step. When we are talking
about this murder case, it's like a big step because we learned that
among the years, there were like eight murders in the same family, Abu
Ghanem family. The women are getting murdered one by one. All of a
sudden, we're all like in shock - they decided to talk.
DAVID HARDAKER: The woman that went to the police was Imama Abu
Ghanem, the mother of Hamda. She gave police the evidence to charge
her own son.
IMAMA ABU GHANEM (translation): In the Koran, there is no order,
murder your sister, and I've asked my son,
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