In Pakistan, thousands of women are killed by their own fathers or brothers every year.
They were either whipped to death or sunken to the bottom of the sea, and the method of killing was extremely cruel.
And after killing, these men will not only not be punished, but will also be respected by more people,
It is believed that these murderers are warriors who defend the honor of the family,
Because these murdered women did things against the men in their homes,
They bring humiliation to the family,
So the men in the family are going to kill these women.
This kind of killing is called "honor murder."
In the tens of thousands of "honor murders", almost no victims have survived,
They were killed by their own loved ones, and they could not even make a final cry for help to the outside world.
Saba was the lucky one in the "Honor Murder" incident,
She survived after being shot twice and being put in a bag and sinking,
Saba became the first victim to be prosecuted in the "honour murder" case.
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But we can see that the damage to Saba is still indelible.
Half of her face was grazed by bullets, and the skin from her eyes to her mouth was completely cracked,
She also had a gunshot wound on her right hand, and may not be able to live a normal life in the future.
This is undoubtedly a fatal blow for a nineteen-year-old girl,
The culprits of all this are her father and uncle.
The reason for this is that Saba has a boyfriend of four years, Kesar.
They were getting to the age of marriage, and Saba's father began to prepare for their marriage.
At this time, Saba's uncle jumped out to oppose,
He thinks that Kesar is not worthy of their family, because the Caesar family is too poor,
Saba's low marriage will make the family laugh,
So Saba's father was persuaded, and he also began to oppose the marriage.
But Saba and Kesar have long been inseparable in four years together.
Saba thinks the Kesars are gentle,
Even if she was angry with Caysal, he would coax her,
This tenderness is especially valuable to Saba, who grew up in a patriarchal family.
But Saba's choice obviously did not matter, her uncle asked Saba to marry her brother-in-law,
He felt that this was the right thing to do, under the double suppression of his uncle and father,
Desperate, Saba told the Kaisar family the news,
They want her to cut first, as long as she has a marriage license.
Saba's father couldn't do anything, so Saba and Kesar got their marriage licenses.
After the newly married two did not stay for an hour, Saba's father and uncle came to the door.
They tricked Saba into saying that he had to go home now, and when Kesar officially came to marry her, they would let her go back.
In order to gain the trust of Saba, they also swore an oath in the Quran that they would not harm Saba,
Because Pakistan takes Islam as its state religion, and the Qur'an is a classic reading of Islam,
Swearing with the Qur'an is swearing by one's own faith, which makes Saba believe the two,
But what happened afterwards became a shadow of Saba's life, and he had just left the residence.
Uncle Saba dragged Saba out of the car and slapped her violently.
After that, her father and uncle were beating her like vents,
In the process, Saba was terrified,
She had been apologizing and pleading, but no one listened to her.
A pistol was pointed at her temple, but thankfully, Sarah tilted her head slightly as she fired.
The bullet crossed the side of the face, and Saba escaped the disaster, and then, in order to destroy the body,
The two men put Saba into a bag and threw it into the river,
In the process of sinking, Saba's consciousness slowly awakened,
Fortunately, the river here is relatively shallow, and she broke the bag and climbed out of the river.
Following the lights, she found a gas station, and Saba asked someone to take her to the hospital, which was a way to escape the disaster.
Saba's injuries have taken a long time to recover, but she can't live back in her husband's house yet.
Because Saba's father and uncle are still on the run,
At any time, it is possible to hurt Saba again, and now Saba is relatively safe.
There are two policemen at the door protecting her, and There are also Kesar around to take care of her.
Saba held a picture of herself in her hand, and she described to Kesar in detail what she had looked like before.
It is not difficult to see that the nineteen-year-old Saba is still very difficult to accept the fact that his face has been destroyed.
Caysal comforted him by hanging the picture at the head of the bed,
Let Saba see it every day, but Saba still refuses,
She shifted the subject and asked Kesar what he would do if he died that day.
Then he teased and said that It wouldn't be long before Caysal forgot about himself.
In the end, only Saba paid the price for their free love struggle.
And Caysal can get out at any time, and after this murder is over,
Neither Saba's mother nor her sister ever looked for her, and her sister thought it was all her sister's fault.
It was all because she eloped to get married and ruined the honor of the family, if it were not for her father to murder her,
The family is still in doubt and ridicule.
Saba's mother believes that it is because she is not well educated, and it is Saba's rebellion that makes her husband so angry.
If she could have made Saba obedient, none of this would have happened.
The father and uncle who have been caught have no remorse for their actions.
Her father thought he had fed the whole family and Saba,
And Saba ruined it all, she let the family lose its honor,
He had to kill Saba for the sake of honor, for whom honor and respect were more important than life.
Saba decides never to forgive the two murderers, and she will take them to court.
Seeing them being shot in public, as a minority of survivors,
She wants to expose the ugliness of "honor murder" and hopes to put an end to this kind of thing in the future.
But there were only two strangers on her side, one was a bearded policeman.
He believes that Allah gives equal rights to all,
And it is not an unforgivable sin for a girl to choose the person she loves.
It doesn't have to be so much at a cost.
As a policeman, he hopes that this kind of thing can happen less often.
The other is Saba's lawyer,
He helped Saba fight this lawsuit for free.
Because he thinks that the law in Pakistan is now flawed,
Especially for such cases of "honor murder",
The murderer can only get the forgiveness of the other members of the family after killing the person,
Then he can be directly acquitted,
And the murderers are often the pillars of the family,
Once in prison, the family's life pressure will increase greatly,
So the average family member will choose to forgive,
They forgive the murderer for the victim,
And the murderer will get everyone's respect,
This law fuels "honor murders",
In the history of Pakistan, there have been countless such cases,
Just when Saba was determined to sue his father and uncle,
But the neighbors of the community want Saba to compromise,
They believe that parents have the right to decide the child's life when they raise them.
The execution of those children who escaped is also understandable,
If Saba sues, all the neighbors here will look down on the Kesar family.
Kesar's eldest brother made the decision for Saba,
He wanted Saba to choose a compromise,
Because if you want to live here in the future, you must listen to the opinions of your neighbors.
Saba compromised for two reasons,
One is the pressure of outsiders, and the other is that even if they sue their fathers and uncles, they will only be locked up for five years.
When they get out of prison, they will come to her for revenge,
But when the lawyer asked Saba if he chose to forgive sincerely,
Saba did not make a sound, and went to the court on the day,
Saba changed into Muslim clothing,
After arriving at the courthouse, she found that the community had changed her lawyer.
This lawyer didn't say anything to Saba.
He doesn't need to communicate with Saba.
Because his task is just to wait for Saba to say I forgive them,
And the case ended, and it all ended very quickly.
The next day Saba's father and uncle were acquitted.
Saba's father came out very proud, because after this incident,
His other daughters will never again disobey his orders like Saba,
And the people in the community respected him even more, and he was called a "noble man".
Saba chose forgiveness in this struggle,
And the price is to continue to breed such evils,
Her little one will grow up on such an 'unfair' soil,
But what can Saba do, such an environment that treats mistakes as justice?
As a victim, all that remains is despair and compromise.