3/11/2003: Bangladeshi acid burn victims

Undertoad · 03-11-2003, 10:52 AM

These women are rallying for International Women's Day, because they are acid burn victims.

You see, in Bangladesh there is a practice of throwing acid at young women. Generally this is done by their jilted lovers. Last year there were 485 such events. It's so common that there is now a Bangladesh Acid Survivor Foundation.

Disturbing and haunting.

03-11-2003, 10:57 AM

Hooray for civilization.

lawman · 03-11-2003, 11:51 AM

Having travelled through India and seeing firsthand the results of a society that permits (although it is out of favour) the disfigurement and in some cases the killing of wives by their husbands (or their family upon the death of the husband), I still find images like this shocking and horrific.

How petty and insecure do these men have to be to inflict such carnage on someone that jilted them? If that's the way they are, the women made a good choice, unfortunately with horrible consequences.

I wonder if these men are even brought up on charges of assault?

Griff · 03-11-2003, 12:12 PM

How do you give yourself permission to violate someone that way? Every time these women meet someone new face to face, its burn victim, then person.

juju · 03-11-2003, 03:10 PM

Hey, with any luck, they'll be able to get face transplants!

Elspode · 03-11-2003, 10:35 PM

If ever there was a crime for which the punishment should be having the perpetrator's genitalia placed in a car door and and allowing the victim to kick it shut, this is the one.

jaguar · 03-11-2003, 11:37 PM

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If ever there was a crime for which the punishment should be having the perpetrator's genitalia placed in a car door and and allowing the victim to kick it shut, this is the one.

Why not jsut dip it in a bucket of acid?
For half an hour.
Ask Saddam, i'm sure he's tried it

Skunks · 03-11-2003, 11:40 PM

Their eyes seem reasonably intact. A testament, I suppose, to reflexive eyelid shutting.

03-11-2003, 10:52 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	3/11/2003: Bangladeshi acid burn victims These women are rallying for International Women's Day, because they are acid burn victims. You see, in Bangladesh there is a practice of throwing acid at young women. Generally this is done by their jilted lovers. Last year there were 485 such events. It's so common that there is now a Bangladesh Acid Survivor Foundation. Disturbing and haunting.

03-11-2003, 12:12 PM	#4
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	How do you give yourself permission to violate someone that way? Every time these women meet someone new face to face, its burn victim, then person. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

03-11-2003, 10:35 PM	#6
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	If ever there was a crime for which the punishment should be having the perpetrator's genitalia placed in a car door and and allowing the victim to kick it shut, this is the one. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

03-11-2003, 10:57 AM	#2
dave Guest Posts: n/a	Hooray for civilization.

03-11-2003, 11:51 AM	#3
lawman unerringly questioning Join Date: May 2002 Location: Whitehorse, Yukon Posts: 100	Having travelled through India and seeing firsthand the results of a society that permits (although it is out of favour) the disfigurement and in some cases the killing of wives by their husbands (or their family upon the death of the husband), I still find images like this shocking and horrific. How petty and insecure do these men have to be to inflict such carnage on someone that jilted them? If that's the way they are, the women made a good choice, unfortunately with horrible consequences. I wonder if these men are even brought up on charges of assault?

03-11-2003, 03:10 PM	#5
juju no one of consequence Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Arkansas Posts: 2,839	Hey, with any luck, they'll be able to get face transplants!

03-11-2003, 11:40 PM	#8
Skunks I thought I changed this. Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: western nowhere, ny Posts: 412	Their eyes seem reasonably intact. A testament, I suppose, to reflexive eyelid shutting.

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