HORRIBLE: Afghan women mutilated by husbands

Zarina from Afghanistan was forced into marriage at the age of 13 and her husband is on the run having attacked her. 

The couple were sleeping at their home in the northern province of Balkh when he suddenly woke her up, bound her and mutilated her. Zarina said her husband had tried to stop her from seeing her parents, and that she wanted to divorce him. ‘He is a very suspicious man and often accused me of talking to strange men when I went to visit my parents,’

In another story, An Afghan woman married off as a 15-year-old has had her nose cut off by her enraged husband using a pocket knife. Her husband, Mohammad Khan, begun beating and torturing his wife, before also taking a second bride who was aged just seven years old.

In yet another story An Afghan woman had her nose and lips allegedly cut off by her husband after refusing to sell her jewelry to fund his heroin addiction.

                                

Their purpose is not to kill, but to cause pain and leave the victim with lifelong disfigurement and psychological scarring. They are carried out to create fear and to control. 

                                    

Acid attacks on women and girls by husbands, in-laws, and even by their family members in Afghanistan and Pakistan are quite common.

SOURCE: http://boltonbnp.blogspot.com.ng/2017/02/afghanistan-former-child-bride-has-her.html