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(1) Pakistan
(2) Jordan
(3) Palestine/Israel
(4) The Balkans
"Honour" killings of women can be defined as acts of murder in which "a woman is killed for her actual or perceived immoral behavior." (Yasmeen Hassan, "The Fate of Pakistani Women," International Herald Tribune, May 25, 1999.) Such "immoral behavior" may take the form of marital infidelity, refusing to submit to an arranged marriage, demanding a divorce, flirting with or receiving phone calls from men, failing to serve a meal on time, or -- grotesquely -- "allowing herself" to be raped. In the Turkish province of Sanliurfa, one young woman's "throat was slit in the town square because a love ballad was dedicated to her over the radio." (Pelin Turgut, "'Honour' Killings Still Plague Turkish Province," The Toronto Star, May 14, 1998.)
Most "honour" killings of women occur in Muslim countries, the focus of this case study; but it is worth noting that no sanction for such murders is granted in Islamic religion or law. And the phenomenon is in any case a global one. According to Stephanie Nebehay, such killings "have been reported in Bangladesh, Britain, Brazil, Ecuador, Egypt, India, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Pakistan, Morocco, Sweden, Turkey and Uganda." Afghanistan, where the practice is condoned under the rule of the fundamentalist Taliban movement, can be added to the list, along with Iraq and Iran. (Nebehay, "'Honor Killings' of Women Said on Rise Worldwide," Reuters dispatch, April 7, 2000.)
Focus (1): Pakistan
Pakistan, where "honour" killings are known as karo-kari, is probably the country where such atrocities are most pervasive. Estimating the scale of the phenomenon there, as elsewhere, is made more difficult not only by the problems of data collection in predominantly rural countries, but by the extent to which community members and political authorities collaborate in covering up the atrocities. According to Yasmeen Hassan, author of The Haven Becomes Hell: A Study of Domestic Violence in Pakistan, "The concepts of women as property and honor are so deeply entrenched in the social, political and economic fabric of Pakistan that the government, for the most part, ignores the daily occurrences of women being killed and maimed by their families." (Hassan, "The Fate of Pakistani Women.") Frequently, women murdered in "honour" killings are recorded as having committed suicide or died in accidents.
One of the most notorious "honour" killings of recent years occurred in April 1999, when Samia Imran, a young married woman, "was shot in the office of a lawyer helping her to seek a divorce which her family could never countenance." According to Suzanne Goldenberg,
Samia, 28, arrived at the Lahore law offices of Hina Jilani and Asma Jahangir, who are sisters, on April 6. She had engaged Jilani a few days earlier, because she wanted a divorce from her violent husband. Samia settled on a chair across the desk from the lawyer. Sultana, Samia's mother, entered five minutes later with a male companion. Samia half-rose in greeting. The man, Habib-ur-Rhemna, grabbed Samia and put a pistol to her head. The first bullet entered near Samia's eye and she fell. "There was no scream. There was dead silence. I don't even think she knew what was happening," Jilani said. The killer stood over Samia's body, and fired again. Jilani reached for the alarm button as the gunman and Sultana left. "She never even bothered to look whether the girl was dead."
The aftermath of the murder was equally revealing: "Members of Pakistan's upper house demanded punishment for the two women [lawyers] and none of Pakistan's political leaders condemned the attack. ... The clergy in Peshawar want the lawyers to be put to death" for trying to help Imran. (Suzanne Goldenberg, "A Question of Honor," The Guardian (UK), May 27, 1999.)
Hina Jilani, Pakistanicampaigner against"honour" killings.According to Goldenberg, "Those who kill for honour [in Pakistan] are almost never punished. In the rare instances [that] cases reach the courts, the killers are sentenced to just two or three years. Hana Jilani [the Jahore lawyer who witnessed Samia Imran's murder] has collected 150 case studies and in only eight did the judges reject the argument that the women were killed for honour. All the other [perpetrators] were let off, or given reduced sentences." (Goldenberg, "A Question of Honour.")
A human-rights report published in March 1999 stated that "honour" killings took the lives of 888 women in the single province of Punjab in 1998 (Hassan, "The Fate of Pakistani Women"). Similar figures were recorded for 1999. In Sindh province, some 300 women died in 1997, according to Pakistan's independent Human Rights Commission. (Goldenberg, "A Question of Honour.") It is unknown how many women are maimed or disfigured for life in attacks that fall short of murder. Pamela Constable describes one such case:
Zahida Perveen's head is shrouded in a white cotton veil, which she self-consciously tightens every few moments. But when she reaches down to her baby daughter, the veil falls away to reveal the face of one of Pakistan's most horrific social ills, broadly known as "honour" crimes. Perveen's eyes are empty sockets of unseeing flesh, her earlobes have been sliced off, and her nose is a gaping, reddened stump of bone. Sixteen months ago, her husband, in a fit of rage over her alleged affair with a brother-in-law, bound her hands and feet and slashed her with a razor and knife. She was three months pregnant at the time. "He came home from the mosque and accused me of having a bad character," the tiny, 32-year-old woman murmured as she awaited a court hearing ... "I told him it was not true, but he didn't believe me. He caught me and tied me up, and then he started cutting my face. He never said a word except, "This is your last night." (Constable, "The Price of 'Honour'," The Gazette (Montreal), May 22, 2000.)
Bangladeshi women scarred in acid attacks.
Perveen's husband stated in court that "What I did was wrong, but I am satisfied. I did it for my honour and prestige." Often burning or scarring with acid are the preferred weapons of the men committing such crimes. "The Progressive Women's Association, which assists attack victims, tracked 3,560 women who were hospitalized after being attacked at home with fire, gasoline or acid between 1994 and 1999," according to Constable. About half the victims died. Lawyer and women's activist Nahida Mahbooba Elahi states that "We deal with these cases every day, but I have seen very few convictions. The men say the wife didn't obey their orders, or was having relations with someone else. The police often say it is a domestic matter and refuse to pursue the case. Some judges even justify it and do not consider it murder." (Constable, "The Price of 'Honour.'") Such crimes are also rife in Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan, where some 2,200 women are disfigured every year in acid attacks by jealous or estranged men. (Ellen Goodman, "How Long Before We Take the Honor out of Killing?," The Washington Post [in the Guardian Weekly, April 6-12, 2000.)
In August 1999, an international furore erupted when the Pakistani Senate rejected a resolution by former Prime Minister Benazhir Butto to condemn "honour" killings in the country. (See Zaffer Abbas, "Pakistan Fails to Condemn 'Honour' Killings", BBC Online, August 3, 1999.) In April 2000, the head of the Pakistani military regime, General Pervez Musharraf, pledged that his government would take strong measures to curb "honour" killings. "Such acts do not find a place in our religion or law," Musharraf stated. "Killing in the name of honour is murder, and it will be treated as such." Most observers were skeptical, however, that Musharraf's words would be followed up by committed actions. (See "Honour Killings Now Seen As Murder", The Sydney Morning Herald [from The Telegraph (UK)], April 24, 2000.)
While the victims of Pakistani "honour" killings are overwhelmingly female, tradition dictates that males involved in the "crimes" should face death as well. But the accused women are standardly killed first, giving men a chance to flee retribution. Moreover, targeted men can escape death by paying compensation to the family of the female victim, leading to an "'honour killing industry' involving tribespeople, police and tribal mediators," which "provides many opportunities to make money, [or] obtain a woman in compensation," according to Amnesty International. The organization also states: "Reports abound about men who have killed other men in murders not connected with honour issues who then kill a woman of their own family ... to camouflage the initial murder as an honour killing." (Amnesty International, "Pakistan: Honour Killings of Girls and Women", September 1999.)
[Note: For more information on "honour" killings in Pakistan, contact the International Network for the Rights of Female Victims in Pakistan, P.O. Box 17202, Louisville, KY 40217, USA; e-mail: email@example.com.]
Focus (2): Jordan
In Jordan, "honour" killings are sanctioned by law. According to Article 340 of the criminal code, "A husband or a close blood relative who kills a woman caught in a situation highly suspicious of adultery will be totally exempt from sentence." Article 98, meanwhile, guarantees a lighter sentence for male killers of female relatives who have committed an "act which is illicit in the eyes of the perpetrator." Julian Borger notes that "in practice, once a murder has been judged an 'honour killing,' the usual sentence is from three months to one year." (Julian Borger, "In Cold Blood," Manchester Guardian Weekly, November 16, 1997. See also "Four Men Sentenced to Year or Less for Brutal Jordan Honour Killings," Agence France-Presse dispatch, July 31, 1999; the perpetrators included a 19-year-old man, Hussein Suleiman, who "was accused of driving three times over his six-month-pregnant unmarried sister in a pick-up truck, despite her denials of immoral behaviour and pleas for help.") Ironically, as Borger notes, this legislation is "the result of Western influence in the Middle East," having arisen "out of a fusion between Egyptian tribal custom and the Napoleonic Code in 1810, after the French legions took Cairo." (Borger, "In Cold Blood.")
In a particularly tragic case in 1994, a handicapped 18-year-old girl, who had already served six months in jail (!) for becoming pregnant out of wedlock, was killed by her 17-year-old brother. A neighbour was quoted as saying the family "seemed relaxed, happy and satisfied after announcing the news that she was killed ..." (Rana Husseini, "18-year-old killed for 'family honor,'" The Jordan Times, September 19, 1994.) Manchester Guardian Weekly reporter Julian Borger described another typical case in 1997:
One morning this summer, Rania Arafat's two aunts came to take her for a walk. They told their 21-year-old niece they had arranged a secret meeting with her boyfriend. She strolled with them through Gwiesmeh, a poor suburb where Amman's concrete sprawl peters out into desert. When the three women reached a patch of open land, the aunts suddenly stepped aside, leaving Arafat standing alone. She was shot four times in the back of the head at close range and once in the forehead. The gunman was her 17-year-old brother, Rami. ... Arafat's crime was to refuse an arranged marriage and elope with her Iraqi boyfriend. Rami is in jail, but is unlikely to be sentenced to more than a few months, especially as he is a minor, which is almost certainly why he was given the role of executioner. (Borger, "In Cold Blood.")
Rana Husseini, a journalistwith The Jordan Times, has exposed"honour" killings in her country.
The Jordan Times estimated in 1994 that between 28 and 60 Jordanian women -- the difference between official police figures and commonly-cited estimates of the actual number -- die in "honour" killings every year (Rana Husseini, "Murder in the Name of Honour," October 6-7, 1994.) The death-toll may even run into the hundreds, with hundreds more women in perpetual hiding, fearful for their lives.
One positive sign is the staunch opposition to the practice displayed by the regime of King Abdullah II, who took power after the death of his father King Hussein in 1999. "The king has backed legislation to put honor killings on a par with other murders and has encouraged public support to change the law. ... The fact that the royal palace has taken such a stance has translated into tougher sentencing and investigations of honor killings by the courts and police. The king's support has also encouraged activist groups to speak out more strongly against honor killings." (Stephen Franklin, "Jordan Begins to Punish Practice of 'Honor Killings'", The Chicago Tribune, September 1, 2000.)
Such efforts continue to encounter staunch resistance from conservative elements, however. In early February 2000, the Jordanian parliament "took only three minutes to reject a draft law calling for the cancellation of Article 340." The country's leading political party, the Islamic Action Front (IAF), denounced the draft law as an effort to "destroy our Islamic, social and family values, by stripping the man from his humanity, [and] not allowing him to get angry when he is surprised by [i.e., surprises] his wife committing adultery." Ten days later, in an unprecedented action, some 5,000 protesters flooded the streets of Amman demanding the repeal of the penal code provision allowing "honour" killings. The protesters included "Prince Ali, who is King Abdullah's brother and his personal guard, as well as Prince Gazi, the king's advisor for tribal affairs."
Focus (3): Palestine/Israel
"Honour" killings are also regularly reported in the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In the Canadian women's magazine Chatelaine, Sally Armstrong described the fate of one victim:
Flirting was a costly mistake for Samera. She was only 15 years old when her neighbours in Salfeet, a small Palestinian town on the West Bank, saw her chatting with a young man without a male chaperone. Her family's honour was at stake; a marriage was quickly arranged. By 16, she had a child. Five years later, when she could stand the bogus marriage no longer, she bolted. In a place where gossip is traded like hard currency, and a girl's chastity is as public as her name, Samera's actions were considered akin to making a date with the devil. According to the gossips, she went from man to man as she moved from place to place. Finally, last July [1999], her family caught up with her. A few days later she was found stuffed down a well. Her neck had been broken. Her father told the coroner she'd committed suicide. But everyone on the grapevine knew that Samera was a victim of honour killing, murdered by her own family because her actions brought dishonour to their name. ... Here in the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority law allows honour killing. Samera's parents are walking the streets of their neighbourhood with their heads held high, relieved that the family honour has been restored. (Armstrong, "Honour's Victims", Chatelaine, March 2000.)
Twenty-two other women died in the Palestinian territories in the same year as Samera. The killings often spill over into neighbouring Israel, as with the killing of "40-year-old Ittihaj Hassoon" near Haifa in 1995:
On Oct. 16, 1995, ... Hassoon got out of a car with her younger brother on a main street of Daliat al Carmel, a small Israeli Druze village ... Over 10 years before, Ittihaj had committed the unpardonable sin of marrying a non-Druze man. Now, after luring her back to her home village with promises that all was forgiven and her safety assured, her brother finally had the chance to publicly cleanse the blot on the family name with the spilling of her blood. In broad daylight in front of witnesses, he pulled out a knife and began to stab her. The witnesses quickly swelled to a crowd of more than 100 villagers who -- approving, urging him on -- chanted, ululated, danced in the street. Within minutes, Hassoon lay dead on the ground while the crowd cheered her killer, "Hero, hero! You are a real man!" (Suzanne Zima, "When Brothers Kill Sisters," The Gazette [Montreal], April 17, 1999. See also Walter Rodgers, "Honor Killings: A Brutal Tribal Custom", CNN World News, December 7, 1995.)
According to Zima, "Ibrahim had agonized over his decision: 'She is my sister -- my flesh and blood -- I am a human being. I didn't want to kill her. I didn't want to be in this situation. They [community members] push[ed] me to make this decision. I know what they expect from me. If I do this, they look at me like a hero, a clean guy, a real man. If I don't kill my sister, the people would look at me like I am a small person.'"
Who is responsible?
"Honour" killings of women (and occasionally their male "partners in crime") reflect longstanding patriarchal-tribal traditions. In a "bizarre duality," women are viewed "on the one hand as fragile creatures who need protection and on the other as evil Jezebels from whom society needs protection." Patriarchal tradition "casts the male as the sole protector of the female so he must have total control of her. If his protection is violated, he loses honour because either he failed to protect her or he failed to bring her up correctly." (Armstrong, "Honour's Victims.") Clearly, the vulnerability of women around the world to this type of violence will only be reduced when these patriarchal mindsets are challenged and effectively confronted.
As many of the examples cited in this case study indicate, state authorities frequently ignore their obligation to prosecute "honour" killings. They should be viewed as "co-conspirators" in such crimes, and held accountable by organizations such as the United Nations.
The typical "honour" killer is a man, usually the father, husband, or brother of the victim. Frequently teenage brothers are selected by their family or community to be the executioners, because their sentences will generally be lighter than those handed down to adults (as was the case with the killing of Rania Arafat in Jordan, cited above). "Talking and writing about this atrocity is a good start," wrote Marina Sanchez-Rashid in a letter to The Jordan Times, "but I believe that action to start treating and judging the men who commit these crimes as the first degree murderers that they are, as well as to protect the victims as they deserve to be protected, is needed as soon as possible." (Quoted in Patrick Goodenough, "Middle East Women Campaign Against 'Family Honor' Killings," Conservative News Service, March 8, 1999.)
As with witch-hunts, however, "honour" killings also need to be viewed from a broader societal perspective; they derive from expectations of female behaviour that are held and perpetuated by men and women alike. Women's role has often been underappreciated. Occasionally, they participate directly in the killings. More frequently, they play a leading role in preparing the ground. In Palestine, for example, the anthropologist Ilsa Glaser has noted that "women acted as instigators and collaborators in these murders, unleashing a torrent of gossip that spurred the accusations." (Quoted in The Calgary Herald, April 20, 2000.) Jordanian women running for parliament have also been "reluctant to break the taboo" on condemning and prosecuting "honour" killings; one told the Manchester Guardian Weekly that "This is our tradition. We do not want to encourage women who break up the family." (Borger, "In Cold Blood.") In the Ramle district of Israel, police commander Yifrach Duchovey lamented his inability to secure the cooperation of community members in investigating "honour" killings: "Even other women -- the mothers -- won't cooperate with us. Sometimes the women co-operate with the men who commit the murders. ... A woman may think it is OK -- maybe she thinks the victim deserves it." (Quoted in Zima, "When Brothers Kill Sisters.")
The institution of the "blood feud" is the little-known but highly-destructive male counterpart to "honour" killings of women. Every year, at least a thousand men and boys die in blood-feud killings in Albania alone; the lives of tens of thousands more are spent in isolation and perpetual fear. Women and girls are virtually never targeted.
Focus (4): The Balkans
The Balkans, along with the Caucasus region, Sicily, and Corsica, are the areas where the "blood feud" still holds greatest sway today. (In the past, the institution was also prominent in Scotland -- and in the U.S. region of Appalachia, as with the famous feud between the Hatfields and McCoys.)
The institution of the blood feud is most virulent in the malësi (mountain regions) of northern Albania, spilling over into the territory that is today the Yugoslav province of Kosovo. The institution has its roots in the Kanun (canon) of Lek Dukagjin, a legal code compiled in the fifteenth century that enshrined "many customary practices which went back much further into the past," according to Noel Malcolm. Malcolm writes that
The importance of the Kanun to the ordinary life of the Albanians of Kosovo and the Malësi can hardly be exaggerated. ... One leading scholar has summed up the basic principles of the Kanun as follows. The foundation of it all is the principle of personal honour. Next comes the equality of persons. From these flows a third principle, the freedom of each to act in accordance with his own honour, within the limits of the law, without being subject to another's command. And the fourth principle is the word of honour, the besë ... which creates a situation of inviolable trust. Gjeçov's version of the Kanun ["the fullest and most authoritative text"] decrees: "An offence to honour is not paid for with property, but by spilling of blood or a magnanimous pardon." And it specifies the ways of dishonouring a man, of which the most important are calling him a liar in front of other men; insulting his wife; taking his weapons; or violating his hospitality. ... This was very much a man's world. ... Women had their honour, but it existed through, and was defended by, men. (Malcolm, Kosovo: A Short History [London: Papermac, 1998], pp. 18-19.)
The blood feud was the result of perceived violations of this code of "honour." It "is one of the most archaic features of northern Albanian society," notes Malcolm. "... What lies at the heart of the blood-feud is a concept alien to the modern mind, and more easily learned about from the plays of Aeschylus than from the works of modern sociologists: the aim is not punishment of a murderer, but satisfaction of the blood of the person murdered -- or, initially, satisfaction of one's own honour when it has been polluted. If retribution were the real aim, then only those personally responsible for the original crime or insult would be potential targets; but instead, honour is cleansed by killing any male member of the family of the original offender, and the spilt blood of that victim then cries out to its own family for purification." The blood feud granted blanket exemption to females, the killing of whom was seen as a profound violation of a man's personal honour. "The strongest taboo of all concerned the murder of women, and any woman could walk through raging gunfire in the knowledge that she would never be shot at." (Malcolm, Kosovo: A Short History, pp. 19-20.)
In his study of the blood-feud in the Yugoslav province of Montenegro, Christopher Boehm gives a vivid picture of the surreal lengths to which this gender-selectivity is carried:
In the old days, women were free to come and go as they chose under feuding conditions, since taking their blood did nothing to help the blood score and also counted as a dishonor, morally speaking. Thus, their normal daily activities could continue. But men were sorely pressed when it came to doing any work other than herding, which allowed them to stay under cover with a rifle ready at all times. In 1965 [at the time of field research] it was for this reason that women still did so much of the heavier work in the fields, so I was told by the slightly apologetic Montenegrin "male chauvinists," who viewed this as a once-necessary custom formed in an earlier era. ... Whatever might happen to the men during a feud, the women were always free to keep the household economy going because the rules of feuding were taken so seriously by the opposing party.
With respect to the sanctity of women, it was even possible for them to enter directly into combat during the first stage of a feud, when the killer's clan shut itself in and the victim's clan attacked the fortified stone farmhouse, which had loopholes [for firing rifles] everywhere. With no fear of being harmed, women could carry straw and firebrands up to the house to try to burn it. Also, women of a besieged house could go outside at night carrying torches, to light up the enemy so that their own men could shoot at them. This exemplifies the strength of these particular rules: to shoot a woman was a source of shame (sramota) for the entire clan. (Boehm, Blood Revenge: The Anthropology of Feuding in Montenegro and Other Tribal Societies [Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1984], pp. 111-12.)
The death-toll exacted by the blood feud has historically been heavy for Balkans men. "At the end of the Ottoman period it was estimated that 19 percent of all adult male deaths in the Malësi were blood-feud murders, and that in an area of Western Kosovo with 50,000 inhabitants, 600 died in these feuds every year." (Malcolm, Kosovo: A Short History, p. 20.) In Albania, the feuds gave rise to another enduring institution: the "sworn virgin," women who "cut their hair short, wear trousers and drink fiery local brandy with the men." According to Julius Strauss, "The tradition of the sworn virgins was born of necessity in this barren land racked by war, blood feuds and intense poverty. In times past when the male line of a family was wiped out, such a virgin was entitled to take over as the head of the family." (Strauss, "The Virgins Who Live Like Men," The Daily Telegraph [UK], February 6, 1997.)
Blood feuds generally declined in the Balkans after the Second World War, as the authoritarian rulers of Albania (Enver Hoxha) and Yugoslavia (Josip Broz Tito) clamped down on practices that were seen as a legacy of the feudal past. In Albania, however, the blood feud has returned with -- one might say -- a vengeance. It has also spread from the traditional heartland of the Malësi to Tirana, the capital, and to the south of the country.
The origins of the current blood-feud crisis in Albania date to the collapse of the communist regime in 1991, and the weakness of the quasi-democratic government that replaced it. From 1992 to 1996, "press reports in Tirana" spoke of "more than 5,000 murders linked to vendettas in the past four years." (Branko Jolis, "Honour Killing Makes a Comeback," The Guardian [UK], August 14, 1996.) It is worth noting that this rate of approximately 1,250 men killed in blood feuds annually is slightly greater than the number of known "honour" killings of women in Pakistan -- in a country with about 1/35th the population. Estimates of fatalities are made difficult by the fact that many blood-feud murders go unreported. As one Albanian clan leader told The New York Times, "People don't want to report killings to the police because then the accused would be protected by the state in prison instead of being available to kill." (Jane Perlez, "Blood Feuds Draining a Fierce Corner of Albania," The New York Times, April 15, 1998.)
In March 1997, the post-communist regime was rocked by "the collapse of enormous, government-endorsed pyramid investment schemes. The public looted army weapons depots as furious investors clashed with security forces. Roughly 1 million firearms are said to be in circulation in a Balkan nation of only 3.2 million." (Michael J. Jordan, "In Albania, A Return to 'Eye for Eye'", The Christian Science Monitor, August 7, 1997.)
Between 1,600 and 5,000 Albanians died in the ensuing six months, and "revenge killings skyrocketed." (Perlez, "Blood Feuds.") In 1998, Gjin Mekshi, a leader of the Committee of Blood Reconciliation in the town of Shkoder, stated that "In some families there are no men left," although "So far no women have been killed." (Owen Bowcott, "Thousands of Albanian Children in Hiding to Escape Blood Feuds," The Guardian [UK], September 30, 1998.)
In addition to the thousands killed, tens of thousands of men live in fear and seclusion as a result of the blood feuds. Mihaela Rodina cites estimates by Albanian non-governmental organizations that "the men of some 25,000 families in northern Albania live thus, never going out of the house for fear of being victims of ... feuding. The women, who are unaffected by the kanun, are left alone to provide for the family's needs." (Rodina, "Blood Code Rules in Northern Albania," Agence France-Presse dispatch, June 30, 1999.) In 1997, The Christian Science Monitor interviewed one man in Shkoder who "ha[d] been homebound for six years ... The man says he dreams of escaping with a visa to America. 'This is actually worse than prison,' he says, standing in his fenced-in garden. 'At least in prison I'd know that one day I could get out.'" Even school-age boys must remain cloistered: "up to 6,000 children [were] said to be hiding" in 1998. (Bowcott, "Thousands of Albanian Children.") (For a 2008 report from Albania, see Nicola Smith, "Blood Feuds Trap 1,200 Albanian Youths At Home", The Sunday Times, January 20, 2008.)
The resurgence of the blood feud has led Gjin Mekshi and others to join forces in an attempt to reconcile feuding families. "The Committee of Blood Reconciliation has 3,000 members in Albania and is pressing the government to accept its arbitrations as part of the legal process. 'I have a good reputation and my father was a man of good reputation, too,' says Mr. Mekshi. 'I am approached to arrange truces by those who are in hiding and dare not go out during the day. When we agree a deal, we sanctify the arrangement with a procession led by the local priest." (Bowcott, "Thousands of Albanian Children.") Albanian Radio reported in August 2000 that "Seven hundred and fifty-six blood feuds have been reconciled, allowing the people involved to put an end to self-confinement at home." (BBC Worldwide Monitoring, August 10, 2000.) In neighbouring Kosovo, a similar campaign was mounted in the 1990s by Anton Çetta. (Malcolm, Kosovo: A Short History, p. 20.) Nonetheless, according to Deutsche Presse-Agentur, the success of such campaigns has been "only limited." ("Albanian Blood Feuds Affect 210,000," Deutsche Presse-Agentur, March 11, 2000.) "The feuds have very deep roots," said Perlat Ramgaj, mayor of the town of Koplik. "They're ingrained on our souls, and in this period of transition people feel free to do just about anything." (Quoted in Helena Smith, "Lost Land Where Vengeance is Written in Blood," The Guardian [UK], February 12, 1995.)
Researched and written by Adam Jones. Last updated: January 20, 2008
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Nitro, A Mac Task Manager Based On Plain Text And Dropbox
Nitro is a very promising new todo list app for the Mac (plus a bunch of hippie platforms). It keeps your notes in a plain text file on Dropbox, and is available free from the Mac App Store.
Nitro is a very promising new todo list app for the Mac (plus a bunch of hippie platforms). It keeps your notes in a plain text file on Dropbox, and is available free from the Mac App Store.
Choosing what to buy when you're trying to be an ethical consumer is tricky. In a world where hippie holdout Ben and Jerry's is now a corporate sellout owned by Unilever, how can we know who owns what, and which products we should boycott?
Luckily (and you knew this was coming), There's An App For That™. It's called Buycott, and by just scanning a barcode, you can find out which scheming ne'erdowells are behind the brand.
Griffin has finally admitted to itself that no matter how good an iPad or MacBook case it makes, you are – eventually – going to toss it away. So the Paper Nomad is designed to decompose gracefully, kind of like the opposite of every aging Hollywood star, ever.
3-D printing: It's just like knitting, right, only more high-tech? No? OK, fine. At least I tried.
But you know what really is high-tech and just like knitting? These iPhone cases, which are 3-D printed in the shape of knitting. Try to spoil that one for me, you grumpy old sourpuss you. Just try…
The iZen Bamboo Keyboard really, really looks like an Apple Bluetooth keyboard with a bunch of bamboo caps stuck on top to the existing keys. And oddly enough, there's nothing in the Kickstarter description to say otherwise.
There are a few telltale clues, though. This keyboard has iPad-specific keys that mimic the home button, search and slideshow functions, and comes with a li-ion battery.
Since I got the Changers solar charger to test, I haven't plugged a USB-chargeable device into anything else (with the exception of my iPad). Changers comes as a kit containing a solar panel and a battery pack, along with a a bag of tips that fit most cellphones and gadgets. But this description doesn't do justice to what is a rather excellent and useful device.

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Think you've spotted Earth's faraway twin? Not so fast. Oxygen-rich atmospheres, touted as almost sure signs of life on habitable exoplanets, can also exist around dead worlds.
More than 1750 exoplanets have been found so far, including several in the habitable zone – the region around a star where liquid water can exist. Next-generation telescopes should be able to
Previous research suggested that oxygen could build up on lifeless planets only if they are outside of or on the edge of the habitable zone. But by definition, the best chances for finding aliens are on worlds squarely inside the life-friendly zone, and it was thought that these planets could have oxygen-rich air only if something was alive on the surface to keep pumping it out. That's because chemical modelling suggested that in the warmer atmospheres of these habitable planets, the highly reactive oxygen molecule would quickly get locked up in other compounds.
But taking a closer look at the chemistry, Robin Wordsworth at the University of Chicago found that, even in the middle of the habitable zone, dead worlds made largely of water can have lots of oxygen in their air. Ultraviolet light from the planet's star can split molecules of water vapour, with lighter hydrogen drifting into space while oxygen is left behind. The same process could happen on life-free rocky planets if they have low levels of nitrogen or argon, gasses that keep water vapour out of the air and halt oxygen build-up.
Robust signals
"In terms of the remote detection of life, just an oxygen-dominated atmosphere on its own is not sufficient," says Wordsworth.
The work suggests that alien-hunters will need to look more carefully at exoplanet signals, such as the exact ratio of oxygen to nitrogen. This makes the task more difficult, says Jack O'Malley-James at the University of St Andrews in the UK. But finding the right mix of chemical clues will increase confidence that we are seeing evidence of life, he says.
"Any claims about the remote detection of life beyond the solar system would be open to a lot of close scrutiny," says O'Malley-James. "So knowing more about the non-biological sources of atmospheric gases, coupled with methods for ruling those sources out, would help to make those claims more robust."
Wordsworth agrees. "It is much better that we are having this discussion now than if we observe a planet with an oxygen-rich atmosphere and there is massive controversy about what it actually means," he says.
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Pompeii Instruction String modifications
I am still at least a year away from starting this project - gotta convince the wife first. I was reading one of the thread about crack problems from dissimilar materials and reviewing the Pompeii instruction on the mother site. So if I get the thread right once you have finished laying the fire brick you will need an expansion joint of sorts for the rest of the structure. On the lines of where the instruction could be more clear I came across this rather confusingly put together sentence.
The Oven Opening
Set the from house wall back such that the brick arch at the oven opening projects forward by a couple of inches.
In my copiuos free time I will print out the full set of intructions as I believe there are other places where the instruction string is a bit confusing. I know that is what the forum is here to fix - all our unanswered questions.
Side note - Robert - was up in Magalia/Paradise the other weekend for the parental units 50th wedding anniversary - I waved by as I blew through town did you see me ;-). Unfortunately a weekend trip does not allow short side trips. I would like to show the wife your handiwork sometime. She's seen the photos and still I need to convince her....
instructions !?!? we don't need no stinkin' instructions ... muhahahaha
i have to admit that i wanted more and clearer instructions when i started but after you begin you realize that its just a dome with a hole in the front. one of the very charming aspects of this whole pompeii oven thing for me is that, as we go along and more and more people build them, its becoming apparent that pompeii ovens are like fingerprints; no two alike.
my oven has no expansion joints (but does have a slip plane which i suspect has never "slipped".) i did get a small crack in the rear of my dome but i just covered it up with mortar when applying the vermiculite layer to the outside. out of sight / out of mind.
i really don't think that anyone has a crack "problem". they just have a crack "feature". ;)
i think the one thing you might need to be concerned with is that living in gardenia your proximity to neighbors might create a situation where you could smoke em out, so i'd be more concerned with vent construction and oven placement.
Smok'm neighbors
the back yard is about 25 by 100 feet 1 side and back wall is 50 yr old salmon cinderblock. Other side wall is the neighbor's stucco covered garage. Upaginast that "wall" is a row of lilly's. Overhead electrical wires are hung on the far wall between me and the neighbor behind me. There is a 5 foot set back right of way for SoCalEdison (our PG&E or SMUD equivalent), that kinda rules out putting it up againt the back wall. Porobably wouldn't be too good to overheat high tension lines anyway. That leaves the other side wall which is currenlty sporting a victory garden of plants to attract butterlflies and assorted herbs. Right now that is my prime candidate. The side neighbor just built out to his home and comletely filledup his backyard with his house. I feel sorry for his dogs. I will have to check to see if there is a set back from the common wall, I bet it is 5 feet there too. I would prefer to build in the far back corner as he has put his bathroom back there and my little project would not interupt his view as his bathroom windows are opaque.
No worries about smokin' out the neighbors in Gardena - the hood loves a good que and every weekend someone is out cookin' da ribs. Being 87% Sicilian I think it is only fair I return tha flavor.
I could publish a how-to book with those kind of instructions but the ovens built to "spec" wouldn't work any better and in some cheesey way I think we'd be losing something special - after all we're doing this because we don't like cookie-cutter pizza or bread. Remember, there will be no other oven in the whole world just like yours when you're done.
This is true of all good ovens by the way. Check out Kiko Denzer's book for some really cool pictures of oven's he's built or has come across in his travels. Some are just unbelievably wonderful.
Jim, Robert,
I agree. The individuality is wonderful. Using the POMPEII Site as a guideline was a great help. I found that during this buiding process there is flexability in the plans for the occasional "tweek" or even the occasional "OOPS" with the result of a great oven nonetheless.
Bob C
Limited space? Consider a piomike design.
jengineer wrote in part:
"the back yard is about 25 by 100 feet"
(M) So it seems that space and/or location is a strong constraint for him.
(M) I remembered seeing a portable design by piomike that follows the sentiments voiced below: "The individuality is wonderful.", and "everyone gets to make their oven a reflection of themselves. "
(M) Since piomike has listed his email, invited questions and posted his pictures, I'd like to recommend that jengineer (name?) follow the Copy-Paste links that follow:
[img]images/misc/navbits_start.gif[/img] Forno Bravo Forum > Pizza Oven Installation Forum > Modular Refractory Oven Installation [img]images/misc/navbits_finallink.gif[/img] I decided to build it different
(M) MIke wrote, in part, ...
......then cover it all in natural stone and porcelain tile and keep the whole thing light enough to roll on the heavy duty casters. It's all done now, I have photos posted up the point of the roof tiles ready to be installed. I put those on today and stained the wood trim. burning the small break in fire now. It took 4 full weekends and a couple of extra weekdays to complete. http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/piomi...h9vkwCBbBI.DCgi
Click this address for start to finish photos and take a look, let me know what you think. I'll post the final pictures in the next day or so."
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1999 - UK?s leading scorer... Broke the UK single-season record for goals (15), points (39), and shots (71)... Selected first-team All-SEC by the league?s coaches... Named first-team All-Great Lakes Region by Soccer Buzz and second-team All-Great Lakes Region by the NSCAA... Tallied nine assists and five game-winning goals... Ranked third in the SEC in points and tied for fourth in goals scored... Scored at least a point in eight consecutive games (10/8-10/31)... Tallied a goal or tallied an assist in 16 of UK?s 21 games... Scored the game-winner in the Cats? 3-1 victory over Xavier... In the Cats? 3-0 win against Dayton, she scored two goals and recorded an assist... Recorded two goals in UK?s 4-1 win over 12th-ranked Georgia including the game-winner... With less than 15 minutes remaining in a scoreless game against Cincinnati, she scored the game-winner from five-yards... Scored the game-winner in the 67th minute in UK?s 5-2 victory over Vanderbilt... Assisted on teammate Keri Boyce?s game-winning goal in the Cats? 1-0 overtime victory... Was 2-for-2 on penalty kicks... Named the SEC Player of the Week for the week of Sept. 20-26 and Oct. 4-10... She and teammate Boyce were the only players to receive the conference POW honor twice during the season... Ranks fourth all-time at UK for career goals, career assists, and career points (50)... Started all 21 games.
1998 - Sat out the 1998 season as a medical redshirt.
1997 - Ranked fifth on the team with 11 points as a freshman, tying for the team lead with five assists... Was one of just five players to start all 22 games... Picked up her first career point with an assist against Marquette at the Wisconsin Tournament... Had a breakout game in the win against Georgia, scoring two goals and adding an assist in UK?s 4-1 win... Also added a goal in UK?s 4-0 win over Detroit... Picked up an assist in UK?s 4-0 win at Mississippi State... Stepped up in the SEC Tournament, assisting a Carrie Staber goal in both games to finish with two assists in the tournament.
Pre-College - Parade All-American and All-Ohio her senior year at Westerville South High School... Central District player of the year... Three-time conference player of year... Member of 1994 and 1995 state champion girls? soccer team... Lettered four years.
Personal - Most memorable moment in sports was her team winning state championships... Born 2/11/79 in Newark, Ohio... Parents are Doug and Polly Gage.


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I honestly have absolutely no clue how many have read part, or all, of this series, but I thank you from the bottom of my furry little heart.
I especially want to thank a new friend, of Elvira Mistress of Felinity, Daddy Kiril and I, for her support, every step of the way: Marian Allen.
Author Marian Allen decided to challenge herself and her readers to take the Story a Day Challenge and I climbed aboard.
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Marian's day 31 story is here. It is an amusing, yet unsettling, story for our age. I do have to wonder, though, where were all the cats?
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NOTTINGHAM Rugby are not going to wrap their star players in cotton wool for the Championship play-offs.
The Green and Whites are almost certain of clinching their place in the top-four by beating bottom-side Doncaster Knights at Castle Park tomorrow (4.45pm).
But backs coach Ben Johnston says if they do it they won't rest players in the last two games of the season against Cornish Pirates and Leeds because they want to go into the play-offs in top form.
"I wouldn't have thought we will do that," he said.
"There is a lot to be said for continuity through a side and not making wholesale changes for the sake of it.
"I think it would cause too much disruption.
"I would expect us to play pretty much the same side throughout.
"The players are fit enough, after all the hard work they did in pre-season, so that's not a problem and we want to maintain our momentum."
The Greens have already thrashed Doncaster 52-7 in the league at Meadow Lane this season.
They lost 27-13 to the Knights in the British & Irish Cup a month before that on home soil and edged to a 16-14 win against them away in the Cup in January, but they rested a few players in those two games.
"It will be one of our objectives achieved if we make certain of our place in the play-offs," added Johnston.
"But it's going to be a big ask going to Doncaster to do that.
"They are a tough side and they are scrapping for their lives at the bottom of the league.
"It's never been an easy place and I get the feeling it's going to be even tougher this time."
Nottingham go into the game in confident mood after almost beating league leaders Newcastle on home soil last Friday night.
They led the Falcons 12-5 at half-time, with Alex Lewington and captain Brent Wilson both scoring tries.
But their unbeaten opponents fought back strongly in the second half and the Greens lost 14-12.
"We were pretty happy at half-time because we'd put in a good performance for 40 minutes, but then we couldn't get out of our half in the second half," said Johnston. "Newcastle pressured us and got on top of us at set pieces and we made mistakes.
"We got more and more tired, having to defend all of the time, and it took its toll and they did what any really good side does and took advantage.
"Looking back, we're a little bit annoyed and frustrated that we couldn't make the right plays at the right time, but the positive thing is we know where we need to improve.
"The first half is definitely up there with the best we've played this season and we scored two good tries.
"We were composed and we put Newcastle under pressure.
"To be in control like we were against quality opposition like Newcastle was really pleasing."
The Greens were also pleased not to pick up any injuries in the hard-fought battle so they look strong to face Doncaster.
"We came out of the weekend with not too many niggles," said Johnston.
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> > does anyone know of any backup utilitys that you can use in linux remotly so
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> The simplest would be a script that tar'd up the files you want, and then
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agreed. i've found that with many utilities, like backup utilities, cd
burning software and mp3 creation, by the time you read their docs
enough to customize to your desire, you could've whipped something up
using perl and cron or at. and be intimately familiar with your
homegrown utility. always a plus.
tar, for example, has an incremental switch which is perfect for this
kind of thing.
> I don't know much about "backup utilities" proper (e.g., stuff that can
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yes, the flexible nature of unix makes some things ... irrelevant.
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so happy still?
in a couple of days there will be no more, at least few, mausoleums and even mosques! (which these islamists apparently don't like for religious and aesthetic reasons.
great! ha? islamists take control and hundreds of years of relative tolerance and cultural heritage of humanity forgotten, gone, destroyed or just "islamized" (whatever that means...)
it seems, in some parts of the world people really take decisions to improve their life and the life of others.
seems to be the most important thing in Mali (first-world country, higher GDP per capita than canada, qatar, finland, germany, sweden, etc., higher Human Development index than any of the nations mentioned, actually the most prosperous in the world and besides, according to transparency indices, the less corrupt place in the world.
of course, against this background, it makes sense to destroy the "naughty and unislamic, and aesthetically outrageous (at least from the islamist perspective) sites". That's how the islamists contribute to helping nations and to improve human existence on this very planet, to make it a better place, essentially.
great, success is really close, evidently...(haha...!) in fact, it's more saddening...
"happy the islamists took over"?!


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Last Sunday, Dec. 15, the world said farewell to one of its great leaders. Nelson Mandela was laid to rest. Pray for his eternal peace.
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John Wade is a well known and respected local businessman who also farms a considerable area of arable land and trains his own impressive stable of racehorses.
He has a steady flow of winners each season mostly on northern tracks, but arguably his finest hours have been at Cheltenham, when Overflowing River won the Cheltenham Hunters four mile steeplechase in two successive years.
It sounds idyllic life but in 1958 when at the age of fifteen John left school, he could hardly have anticipated being a successful businessman and racehorse owner.
His first wage packet was a mere 10 1/4 d per hour – just £2.00 per week. At nineteen he began repairing and driving earth moving plant and 2 years later out on his own as an agricultural engineer. That fledgling enterprise would quickly move into plant hire and small contract work involving earth moving, re-seeding and demolition.
Those early activities soon progressed into quarry products sales as he became a merchant, collecting stone from the Old Town Quarry at Middridge near Shildon and delivering it to local builders and Councils.
in 1972 John Wade acquired his first quarry Stonegrave Aggregates Ltd based near Aycliffe Village and then started developing the business. John expanded the quarry and was soon supplying the region's construction industry with crushed dolomite – magnesium limestone for the technically minded. Many new Darlington houses, facilities and roads in the last quarter of the 20th century were built on Aycliffe Quarry hardcore. Meanwhile the demolition and land reclamation side of the business flourished.
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- markets and exchanges
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Judges who sit in the High Court can hear all cases relating to children and have an exclusive jurisdiction in wardship – a type of court order which gives custody of a minor (under 18) child to the court, with day-to-day care carried out by an individual(s) or local authority.
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On Friday morning, former California Rep. Hilda Solis was sworn in as Secretary of Labor by Vice President Joe Biden at the U.S. Dept. of Labor headquarters. The confirmation of Hilda Solis as labor secretary is a momentous occasion that SEIU and organized labor had been anticipating--and fighting for--since Barack Obama first nominated her in mid-December for the position.
Before the oath was administered, Biden spoke high praise for Solis' drive and leadership skills as a champion for the middle class:
"Things like fairness in the workplace and workplace safety are not just idle phrases that are to be debated in Hilda's mind; they're real...She knows that a job is more than about a paycheck...A job is about dignity. A job is about respect. Hilda understands that."
Biden describes Solis as a "woman of integrity" who respectfully demands to be heard--and has a long track record of standing up for workers' rights to prove it.
"When she was in the state legislature, when it came to domestic violence, to health care, to education, she was heard. When she held hearings on sweatshops, she was heard. When she fought to protect low-income and minority communities from landfill and pollution and environmental hazards, she was heard. And in Congress, when she stood up to level the playing field for workers who wanted to organize, she was heard.
"When it comes to standing up for expanding this economy for all people, no one is going to be a stronger voice than the new Secretary of Labor. Hilda Solis will fight. And today, we can all be proud this daughter of union members is now America's most forceful advocate for working men and women in this country."
After the swearing-in, Solis reiterated her goal to ensure workers receive fair treatment, a safe and healthy workplace and receive a wage they deserve. "To those who have for too long abused workers, put them in harm's way, denied them fair pay, let me be clear, there is a new sheriff in town," she said.


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July 10, 2002 9:00 PM PDT
Microsoft heads for home networking
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The software giant has a team developing 802.11b wireless home networking products within the same hardware division that creates keyboards and mice. Company representatives declined to comment on the details of the future products, but said that entering the home networking market was in line with the software giant's interests.
Companies such as Apple Computer and Hewlett-Packard have been aggressively selling similar products for years.
"We want to enable software and services through the home, and we've found that there is a bottleneck and it's in the network," said Adam LeVasseur, a Microsoft product manager. "Right now, it's too hard to use networking products, and we want to make the process simple."
LeVasseur added that the company chose 802.11b products because it is a widespread technology, notable for its use in public hot spots. While they are evaluating next-generation wireless home networking technologies, they are focusing on the fall launch of the 802.11b products. The company has just sent the second and final beta versions for its networking products to independent testers across North America.
Devices using the 802.11b standard can wirelessly transfer data, such as Web pages and files, across networks at rates of up to 11mbps and distances of up to 300 feet.
Dominic Ainscough, an analyst with research firm The Yankee Group, said that Microsoft is keeping up with the evolving nature of the PC.
"The PC is becoming a media center, and getting into home networking helps to build around and further extend the uses of the PC," Ainscough said. "They are helping to create a platform that goes beyond the office and extends into the rest of the home."
About 35 percent of PC owners are interested in home networking, Ainscough said.
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Jim Cramer on the politics of Satellite Radio
Let me preface this by first saying that I pretty much can't stand Jim Cramer.
At one point in time, I actually enjoyed his banter and his advice seemed to make sense, but the circus that is Mad Money just continuously rubs me the wrong way. I just can't stand it. I even blasted him about a year ago, flat out calling Cramer an idiot about his persistent merger talk (oops).
But a recent video clip about the politics of the satellite radio merger really sums it up nicely. And I have to give credit where credit is due.
When we hear about how the political weight of some comments - such as those from 78 Congressmen - being stronger than the majority, Cramer explains it as such:
"All they really care about, a lot of these guys, is getting re-elected," Cramer said. "So the last thing they want to do is piss off a radio station in their town."
Cramer goes on to say that Sirius and XM really "have no defenders whatsoever in the Capitol, which is why they're willing to do the unthinkable, which is to unbundle and make it so that they can't make as much money per customer."
The "unthinkable" is generally bad business, as investors want to see corporations squeeze every penny from each and every subscriber. But for the customer, it's a pretty phenomenal deal.
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