It’s incredibly maddening, and heartbreakingly sad.
Kyrgyzstan’s government is allowing domestic violence and the abduction
of women for forced marriage to continue with impunity, Human Rights
Watch said today in its first report
on human rights violations in this Central Asian country. "Police in
Kyrgyzstan have an obligation to ensure that perpetrators of domestic
violence and bride-kidnapping are brought to justice," said Holly
Cartner, Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "But
more often than not, they simply don’t treat these as serious crimes."Based on in-depth, firsthand interviews with victims of violence, the
report tells the stories of women who have been kicked, strangled,
beaten, stabbed and sexually assaulted by their husbands. The report
also tracks what happens when women seek help from the authorities.
Instead of attaining safety and access to justice, they are encouraged
to reconcile with their abusers.
Reconcile with their abusers! Reconcile! For fucks sakes.
The report also describes how women and girls are being kidnapped — sometimes by men they do not know — for forced marriages.
