These are the pictures of a married woman caught having extra-marital affair with another man in Kenya. Then the self-righteous mob decided to punish her for going against the societal norms. She was stripped and made to parade naked on the streets under a cry of derision from a hostile, self-righteous and barbaric crowd. The man who is her partner (extreme right in a blue shirt with no pants), seems to be one of those mocking her here. In first picture, he is partially dressed but in the next picture, he is completely unclothed.
The treatment meted out to the women is not only barbaric but also inhuman. How can a person feel excited, when a woman is being stripped of her rights and basic dignity. These reveal the sorry state of women and children in our society today.
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Swapna Sarit, your comments are why equality between men and women is not possible. Both the man and woman are naked!
ReplyDeleteit is inhuman and disgraceful practice!
ReplyDeletethis is just plain stupid. Do we need fear instilled in us in order to behave like human beings. Coz it seems like the more freedom we get the more we abuse it. I'm disgraced by this BS and hope to go back and change things. Drastically, might I add.
ReplyDeleteThis practice is common throughout much of East Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi), where it is an accepted form of punishment for minor misdemeanors such as petty theft, anti-social behaviour and sexual violations like adultery.
ReplyDeleteWhere the practice exists, victims and perpetrators alike tend to regard the act of marching a wrongdoer naked through the streets to the taunts and jeers of the crowd as a legitimate form of extra-judicial punishment.
In most cases, it actually represents a less harmful and frightening ordeal than being "processed" by the police and courts. Indeed, most victims of the practice much prefer this treatment, humiliating as it is, over falling into police hands - its finished relatively quickly, whereupon they are told to behave themselves in future, and finally forgiven. Whereas the police may act quite brutally, with rape, torture, extortion and other abuses of prisoners in custody being exceedingly common.
There is usually no physical harm inflicted upon the individuals concerned - the shame alone is considered to be sufficient remedy, although some light corporal punishment is occasionally administered besides, depending on the severity of the offence.
Do not be too quick to judge - this practice has been around for a very long time, and probably works just as well as any other form of public punishment anywhere. Having been a (white male) resident in Uganda for a lengthy period, I never witnessed any person re-offend after receiving this treatment.
The police or the judiciary being cruel or act brutally does not justify such practices to be any nicer. Kenyans shout Jesus in Every church every Sunday. What Jesus thought about the prostitute that was to be stoned is : "Whoever is without sin among you, let him be the first to cast a stone at her." How does this sound for a change?
DeleteI can't believe that thins like this happens every day. The world is crazy,in US, is a rape of a woman every 6 seconds,and and 2 of every 25 cases en in torture, and even a lot of those women en killed by their agressor.Statistics show that most of 911 calls are related to Domestic Violence,or Domestic Disturbance in 1 of very 4 the woman needs emergency attention.65% of Husbands in America beat up their wife and their kids.
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ReplyDeleteHOW THESE PEOPLES CAN DO THAT , ITS VERY BAD TO TREAT A WOMEN LIKE THAT , I AM FEELONG SO BAD TO SEE THIS PICTURE , HOW THIS KIND OF THINGS GOING AROUND WITH WOMEN GOD BLESS EVER ONE OF HUMANS BEINGS ....
she cheated on her husband guys, shes lucky she wasn't stoned to death.
ReplyDeleteSome people use our modern system to justify any kind of moral depravity they want.
with freedom of choice comes accountability and all the more so when you make a commitment before god to marry.
she should have been flogged.
same goes for any man who does the same thing.
No wonder she cheated; her husband has a small cock the size of a clit.
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