Parvin Khatun, 25, had both her hands amputated at wrists and made almost blind by a vicious bomb attack allegedly orchestrated by her husband and in-laws in October 2000, for dowry.
Just three months into Parvin's marriage with Mohammad Alamgir Hossain Tipu in April 2000, in exchange for a dowry of Tk 9,000 (£90), 1.25 bhoris of gold ornaments, and nine bhoris of silver ornaments, she was approached again by her husband and in-laws for more.
Her husband, mother-in-law, and sister-in-law pressed her to return to her parents and bring at least Tk 5,000 more, or nine pieces of corrugated tin, putting Parvin, who was only sixteen back then, in a very difficult situation.
Only three months ago, her father, Mohammad Abdul Alek, a day labourer, had to endure immense hardship to arrange a dowry for his daughter's wedding.
"I didn't know from where my father would get the extra amount. However I went to my parents, but returned empty handed two days later," Parvin said as tears rolled down her cheeks.
"I'm the only daughter with three sons in the family, and I could feel the pain of my parents and the brothers, who were feeling totally helpless," she added.
When Parvin tried to explain to her husband and the in-laws that her parents are too poor to meet their demand, her husband's entire family became furious. They started citing, day and night, examples of other families in the village who had received larger amounts of dowries.
One Saturday morning in October 2000, her mother-in-law and sister-in-law asked her to collect hay from the harvest of paddy, and pile them up in front of their house. As she gathered the hay, she found two neatly wrapped packets underneath.
"My mother-in-law and sister-in-law asked me to take the packets to my room and to open those. They ran out of the room, and I don't remember anything after that," Parvin said.
She was admitted to Rajshahi Sadar Hospital with horrendous injuries, where doctors amputated both of her hands from the wrists. She lost one of her eyes, and can hardly see with the other. She said all her body bears marks of injuries.
As usual a case was filed with Paba police station, which kept dragging on. At one point a village shalish (an unofficial court of village elders and influential people) 'settled the matter' by ordering her husband and his family to return the entire amount of dowry that Parvin's family had paid at the time her wedding, and granted her husband's family immunity from any punishment.
"They did return the dowry to my parents, but I got nothing. Now I'm struggling hard to live on as a handicapped person," Parvin sobbed. (Source)
Apart from the dowry related oppression, let me remind you that these 'village elders' are of similar cults as those scumbags that I mentioned here. And you can easily spot the trend with these cults: make an arbitration council, shame the victim, give respite to the criminal, and sometimes torture the victim even further. This is the type of cult that is existent in many parts of the world today, sadly. And when you hear or see a Muslim screaming against the oppressive Zionists and non-Muslim soldiers (as they should), please remind them to scream against these Muslim terrorists as well and not be biased against their Muslim sisters being tortured by animal-like Muslims, sometimes in the name of 'Islam'.
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