Martha Colmenares

Macabro: La foto corresponde al agujero, en un gallinero ubicado en el patio junto a la casa familiar, en Kahta, el sudeste de Turquía, en la que Medine Mem una niña turca de 16 años fue enterrada viva por su padre y resuelto en consejo de los parientes por ser considerado dentro de lo que llaman “crímenes de honor”, según el Islam. El motivo: porque hablaba con niños. Sufrió muchisimo. “El resultado post mortem es espeluznante… estaba viva y consciente, cuando estaba enterrada”, dijo un experto forense. Según la traducción que hago de la fuente original en inglés su cuerpo fue encontrado en posición sentada con las manos atadas en un agujero excavado 6 pies… 40 días después de haber sido reportada como desaparecida.

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En los pulmones y el estómago de la joven se le encontró gran cantidad de tierra, lo que indica que su muerte fue lenta y dolorosa.”El resultado post mortem es espeluznante. Según nuestras averiguaciones, la chica – que no tenía moretones en su cuerpo y ningún signo de estupefacientes o el veneno en la sangre – estaba viva y consciente, cuando estaba enterrada “, dijo un experto forense.

Un hombre, que se cree ser el padre de Medine, es llevado a cabo de una estación de policía por los agentes en Adiyaman, en el sur-este de Turquía

La sospecha de que su muerte había sido especialmente brutal llevado a la puesta en marcha de un informe elaborado por científicos de la Universidad después de la original de examen post mortem.

Meme Medine padre y abuelo han sido detenidos y encarcelados en espera de juicio. La madre de la niña fue arrestado, pero después fue liberada.

Se ha comprobado que la niña había presentado una denuncia a la policía de su abuelo, dos meses antes de su desaparición, diciendo que él la golpeó porque ella habló con los niños.

Además de su padre Ayhan se dice que a los parientes que no estaban contentos de que su hija – una de los nueve hijos – tenía amigos masculinos.

La policía hizo el macabro descubrimiento en diciembre tras un chivatazo de un informante.Después de Medine cuerpo fue encontrado en diciembre, su madre Immihan dijo: “Ella trató de refugiarse en la comisaría de policía tres veces, y fue enviado a casa tres veces.”

El caso ha causado indignación en Turquía y reabrió el debate sobre los llamados crímenes de honor, que son especialmente prevalentes en la mayoría kurda del sur-este del país.

Estas muertes son por lo general se deciden en un consejo de familiares que se componen de los ancianos de la familia.

Las cifras oficiales del estado hay más de 200 asesinatos este año, alrededor de la mitad de todos los asesinatos en Turquía.

Un comentarista escribió en la página web de un canal de televisión religiosa: “El castigo para todo aquel que debe matar con la intención es el infierno, donde se debilitará siempre. Alá ha maldecido y un gran dolor que le habían preparado ‘Usted nombró a su hija después de la ciudad santa de Medina, pero su mente es sobrante de la anterior.

Esta fue la traducción, ahora quisiera decir que sucede en la Turquía de Erdogan el de la alianza de civilizaciones con Zapatero. Los comentarios en la página de la fuente son de rechazo a estas prácticas.Martha Colmenares

Turkish girl, 16, ‘buried alive by her father because she had friendships with boys’

By Mail Foreign Service

A 16-year-old Turkish girl died after being buried alive under a chicken coop by relatives because she talked to boys.

The body of Medine Memi was found in a sitting position with her hands tied in a 6ft hole dug in the courtyard of her family’s home in Kahta, south-eastern Turkey, 40 days after she had been reported missing. The hole had been cemented over.

The teenager had a large amount of soil in her lungs and stomach – showing she suffered a slow and agonising death.

‘The post mortem result is blood-curdling. According to our findings, the girl – who had no bruises on her body and no sign of narcotics or poison in her blood – was alive and fully conscious when she was buried,’ said a forensics expert.
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A man, believed to be Medine’s father, is led out of a police station by officers in Adiyaman, south-eastern Turkey
Medine Memi

This is the hole, under a chicken coop, in which Medine was buried alive by relatives. It is positioned in the courtyard next to the family home

Suspicion that her death had been especially brutal led to the commissioning of a report by university scientists after the original post-mortem examination.

Medine Meme’s father and grandfather have now been arrested and jailed awaiting trial. The girl’s mother was arrested, but later released.

It has emerged that the girl had made a complaint to police about her grandfather two months before she went missing, saying that he beat her because she talked to boys.

In addition her father Ayhan is said to have told relatives that he was unhappy that his daughter – one of nine children – had male friends.

Police made the grisly discovery in December following a tip-off from an informant.

After Medine’s body was found in December, her mother Immihan said: ‘She tried to take refuge at the police station three times, and she was sent home three times.’
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The case has caused outrage in Turkey and reopened the debate over so-called honour killings which are particularly prevalent in the predominantly Kurdish south-east of the country.

Such killings are usually decided by a council of relatives which consist of the elders of the family.

Official figures state there are more than 200 such killings a year, around half of all murders in Turkey.

One commentator wrote on the website of a religious TV station: ‘The punishment for whosoever should kill with intent is the hell where he will languish forever. Allah has cursed him and prepared great pain for him

‘You named your daughter after the holy city of Medina but your mind is left over from the earlier Age of Ignorance.’
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LIZ JONES: Honour killings? What we’ve done to young Emma is just as shameful

By Liz Jones

Two very different teenage girls made headlines around the world last week. The first was Emma Watson, the 19-year-old star of the Harry Potter movie franchise.

She was named as the highest-earning female in Hollywood in 2009, only one of two women to make it on to the list of the industry’s top 20 earners.

The second was 16-year-old Medine Memi – her first name means ‘civilisation’. Her body was discovered tied to a chair in a hole in the garden of her home in a small village in south-eastern Turkey.

She had been buried alive as punishment for having talked to boys on the telephone. We know she was buried alive because of the amount of soil found in her stomach and lungs. Her father and her grandfather have been arrested.
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Is it a coincidence that Emma Watson is the highest paid actress in the world and also incredibly young?

The two young women are worlds apart, of course. Medine lived in a country mired in the dominance of a medieval, backwards-thinking, feudal patriarchy, albeit one that has been taking steps to stamp out violence towards women in its bid to be allowed into the European Union.

In 1998, the country’s supreme court overturned a law that criminalised adultery. In 2004, it introduced mandatory life sentences for those who carry out so-called ‘honour’ killings.

But despite these measures it continues to fail to protect its women and children. Four out of ten women in Turkey are beaten by their husbands. Half of all murders are ‘honour’ killings.

In an attempt to circumvent the stiffer sentences, ‘honour suicides’ have mushroomed.

Batman, a town in the south-east of Turkey, has been nicknamed ‘Suicide City’: three-quarters of all suicides here are committed by women – nearly everywhere else in the world, men are three times more likely to kill themselves.

Women who are told to kill themselves are usually given three options: a noose, a gun or rat poison. They are then locked in a room until they have done the deed.

Despite all of the above, President Obama made no mention of this shocking record on women’s rights in the speech he made during a visit to Istanbul last year in which he urged the EU to welcome Turkey with open arms.

He concentrated instead on the far less controversial issue of global warming.

But let’s look at Emma Watson for a moment. Is it a coincidence that she is the highest-paid actress in the world – and also incredibly young, known only for her portrayal of a virginal schoolgirl?

You might have thought Meryl Streep would have been up there on that list somewhere. Or Helen Mirren, or the director Kathyrn Bigelow. But no. The richest (and I hesitate to use the word powerful here) woman in Hollywood is also necessarily the weakest: a child.

The most powerful men are inevitably all ancient and unglamorous with old-lady arms: James Cameron, Steven Spielberg and their ilk. Like Islam, Hollywood is a clannish, backwards-thinking, oppressive, patriarchal society intent on keeping women firmly in their place.

I don’t mean to trivialise what happened to Medine. Her murder was horrific, and the perpetrators should be punished. But all cultures, the world over, celebrate pure, young women.

Girls in Afghanistan are staying home because of a spate of acid attacks. In Italy, a country where until 1981 ‘honour’ was an ‘extenuating circumstance’ for murder, a young Moroccan woman was murdered last autumn by her father for wearing jeans.

In Iran, honour killings are legal. In Pakistan, a 17-year-old girl who, it was claimed, became pregnant by a man who was not her husband was forced to give birth before having her baby thrown to its death in a canal. The teenager was then mauled by dogs before being fatally shot in the head.

But can we in the West really claim the moral high ground when it comes to condemning these ‘honour’ killings’?

I would counter that the number of women harmed psychologically and physically by the West’s obsession with extreme youth far outstrips the number of women who are murdered for adultery, or even for the ‘crime’ of being the victim of rape in Islamic countries.

Every society has things it should be ashamed of. We have battered wives, domestic violence, child abuse, rape. These crimes are not done in the name of religion, other than as part of our cult of worshipping only women who are barely adolescent.

Violence against women is widespread in all countries. In Britain, 45 per cent have experienced some form of domestic abuse. In Germany, that figure is 37 per cent. Let’s not make this a war against Islam.

Let’s make it a war between genders, and try to fix it with education and emancipation, not prejudice.

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