Why is Asian female life so cheap?
Rumbold at Pickled Politics reports the case of a female doctor in India who was forced to take a gender determination test for her twin girls.
Dr Mitu Khurana was subsequently harrassed by her husband and his family to abort the girls, culminating in the family casting her out on the street. Her attempts to obtain justice have been frustrated. The police, judiciary and her former employer have all pressured her to drop the case.
The BBC also carries a report today on young Indian women who are given to British men in arranged marriages and then abandoned after the wedding night. There are an estimated 15,000 – 20,000 abandoned brides in India. Although the Forced Marriage Unit point to an increase in forced marriages of British Males, most abandoned brides are being used as little better than prostitutes by their British Asian ‘husbands’.
In the week which has seen an Indian gang carry out a savage murder against a defenceless and innocent Asian girl of 28, isn’t it time we asked why female life is so cheap in the Asian community?
