Du’a: A call unheard
Tweet Diana Nammi reflects a year on since Du’a Khalil was stoned to death, 06 April 2008 On April 7th, a year ago, Du’a Khalil Aswad, 17 years old, was stoned to death in Bashiqa, Northern Iraq. Some of her closest relatives beat, kicked and stoned her to death, pulverizing her face and body, finally killing her by dropping a concrete block on her face to uproarious cheering from a crowd of hundreds of men, followers of the Yezidi religion. Her body was then dragged around the town behind the back of a truck and buried with the corpse of a dog as a final gesture of contempt for her...
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