The TRUTH About Video of Girl Stoned To Death
Contrary to news circulating amongst Nigerians about a video alleged to be by Boko Haram, the stoning of the girl seen in the video was a public execution carried out by the Al-Shabaab militant group in Somalia on October 27, 2008.
Human rights group Amnesty International says the victim was Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow, a 13-year-old girl who had been raped.
After being attacked by three men her family went to the Al-Shabab Islamist militia to report the crime. She was detained and accused of adultery. No effort was made to identify or arrest the rapists.
Despite reports that she was 23 years old, Aisha was actually 13. "She hadn't even reached the age to be married," her distraught father said.
Aisha was killed by a group of 50 men in a stadium in the southern port of Kismayu, in front of around 1,000 spectators.
Some people tried to intervene. The gunmen fired shots; one man was wounded and an eight-year-old boy was shot dead. The militia later apologised for his killing.
After the execution a man called Sheik Hayakalah said "The evidence came from her side and she officially confirmed her guilt," he said. "She told us that she was happy with the punishment under Islamic law." Aisha's father said his daughter had begged for her life. It is illegal under Sharia to convict a 13-year-old of adultery.
During the Cold War Somalia's strategic location on the Horn of Africa saw it become possibly the world's largest arms dump. With no effective government for nearly two decades, it became a theatre for the proxy wars of its neighbours and a domain ruled by warlords and extremists.
The emergence of the Islamic Courts movement, which drove the warlords out of Mogadishu, briefly offered hope of relative stability. Instead the movement was portrayed as a hotbed of Islamist extremism, accused of links to Al Qaeda, and neighbouring Ethiopia was encouraged by the US to invade.
Sources: BBC, The Independent
Human rights group Amnesty International says the victim was Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow, a 13-year-old girl who had been raped.
After being attacked by three men her family went to the Al-Shabab Islamist militia to report the crime. She was detained and accused of adultery. No effort was made to identify or arrest the rapists.
Despite reports that she was 23 years old, Aisha was actually 13. "She hadn't even reached the age to be married," her distraught father said.
Aisha was killed by a group of 50 men in a stadium in the southern port of Kismayu, in front of around 1,000 spectators.
Some people tried to intervene. The gunmen fired shots; one man was wounded and an eight-year-old boy was shot dead. The militia later apologised for his killing.
After the execution a man called Sheik Hayakalah said "The evidence came from her side and she officially confirmed her guilt," he said. "She told us that she was happy with the punishment under Islamic law." Aisha's father said his daughter had begged for her life. It is illegal under Sharia to convict a 13-year-old of adultery.
During the Cold War Somalia's strategic location on the Horn of Africa saw it become possibly the world's largest arms dump. With no effective government for nearly two decades, it became a theatre for the proxy wars of its neighbours and a domain ruled by warlords and extremists.
The emergence of the Islamic Courts movement, which drove the warlords out of Mogadishu, briefly offered hope of relative stability. Instead the movement was portrayed as a hotbed of Islamist extremism, accused of links to Al Qaeda, and neighbouring Ethiopia was encouraged by the US to invade.
Sources: BBC, The Independent
The TRUTH About Video of Girl Stoned To Death
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