Northern Iraqi women increasingly attempting suicide

[rainbow4321]

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/123007dnentiraq_suicides.46a9261.html

As new social and economic pressures collide with old traditions in the newly prosperous region of northern Iraq, Kurdish women still exert little control over their lives, health experts say. They struggle to describe a mental malaise that women and girls experience in the patriarchal culture, where women see little hope for their future and find themselves driven to kill themselves at unprecedented levels.

Since 2003, an average of one female sets herself on fire each day in Iraqi Kurdistan, according to Khasro Omar, head nurse of the Emergency Management Centre in Erbil. The center is the premier hospital for burn patients in the area.

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Most of the women and girls say they immolated themselves because of unresolved problems with their families. Some had issues in their marriages, while others alleged they were burned by accident as they worked in the kitchen, their long dresses a danger near the flames.

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Those who survive suffer estrangement from their families and society. Married women who cannot work because of their injuries are often divorced by their husbands. No organizations in the region have long-term programs to help these women.

[mac2]

1. Genocide by our President and Congress

How can they sleep at night. What are the women's organizations doing about it? Hillary?

Guess help would be called treasonous by the RWers. How can they call themselves Christians and sleep at night? The children and old are suffering everyday of our occupation.

Can we expect anything less when our own were suffering and floating in the flood waters of New Orleans? Even the Congress acted "unaffected".

[rainbow4321]

2. Not a group of women I foresee Laura doing a photo op with...

anytime soon. Unless she and chimp can manipulate the story to say that Al Queda broke into their homes and set the women on fire.

[libodem]

4. Maybe she could provide a mission of mercy

and give them hand guns, Seconal, or a a rope to hang themselves with. Maybe slip some of that Heroin going through Turkey into their hands for a quick OD. Then she could take her photo op with the corpses, as a testimony of our aide. Yes, I can see it now, a Republican, theme in the election, 'Gassing is to good for these bitches' let them burn. As long as we can get rid of these pesky mouths to feed we can get to that oil faster. And as if you couldn't tell->:sarcasm:

[Sugar Smack]

3. JESUS. Jesus. No words.

No "crying" smilie. This is too harsh.