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Marriage of underage girls instigate murder of a child in Akkar
18-12-2017
The local media covered this weekend the news of the death of underage girl N.A (15 years) at her marital home in the Akkari town of Jamous, with a hunting rifle next to her body. In the detail, Al Akhbar newspaper cited security sources as saying the victim had been married for five months and that her husband was held for questioning, while other media outlets are quoting the dead child’s family and town inhabitants as stating the death is a result of suicide. Kafa, Enough Violence and Exploitation organization said the victim should be presumed killed until investigations reveal the true circumstances behind the incident. Kafa lawyer, Leila Awada, maintained that in such cases, the family of the victim usually adopt the suicide version to conceal the truth. Meanwhile, Al Akhbar also wrote that 3 days before N.A’s death, the body of a young woman, Y.D (19 years) was found at her marital home in the Akkari village of Arida with a Kalashnikov weapon next to her. The newspaper said that notwithstanding the closing of investigations and determining the husbands as the accused killers of their wives, the two incidents bring to mind the debate on domestic violence that has been soaring in the country. It went on to say, that the murder of the child N.A brings about discussions about the phenomenon of marriage of underage girls and its repercussions on child brides. It also raises questions about the fate of deterrent laws and draft legislations especially in the absence of a civil status law that stablishes a unified age for marriage which leaves matters to the discretion of jurisdiction of spiritual courts. (Al Akhbar, L’Orient Le Jour, December 18, 2017)
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