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Article: When culture kills.(Urvashi Butalia's View From the South)

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December 1, 2003
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HESHU YONES was 16 and in love. For this her father slit her throat and killed her. Heshu's 'crime' was that she fell in love with a fellow student at her college. The young man belonged to a different religion and the two planned to marry--against her father's wishes. 'Me and you will probably never understand each other,' Heshu wrote to her father as she prepared to run away. 'I'm sorry I wasn't what you wanted, but there are some things you can't change.'

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Samia Sarwar was 29 years old, a mother of two and a student of law. She'd been married several years to a cousin, her mother's sister's son--and had suffered continuing ...

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