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one book saying that she just didn't like it that there. i told her to go away and tell her sister as everything but she was scared she thought they would tell her to stay there. and that's why she didn't tell anyone a word. on the bus that she was a monitor of the group i would never seen with as such a strong person could do this kind of thing to herself as a thirty. minute there how she wanted to be famous. and she could have been. if she was still alive. veneer is relatives are preparing borsak frybread traditionally made for weddings and funeral ceremonies. every side the neighbors get together they reminisce about vanilla but they believe that you can't escape from fate. because of the kidneys have this kind
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of mentality once again gets married she has to live as a man no matter what even if he's a freak even if you. live as tragic story could have been written off as a unique case were it not for the fact that just a year later another girl. took her own life and a year after that. i did the same thing none of the three girls were able to live with the shame of forced marriage. and also from the capital bishkek has chosen to write a book on the subject of turkey as brides has called on his friend as he is to join him their views on wedding traditions have never been the same as his has two grown up daughters who are to get married soon their father calls on them every evening but before leaving he warned his daughters not to spend time outside the house
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after school the girls are to head straight home his greatest fear is that they may be kidnapped. there are some guys from the mountains who don't care at all if she's fifteen after all her age is not written down on her forehead and they have no idea she is only a schoolgirl so she is very likely to be kidnapped sometimes when i hear some guy calling her. and why is he calling oh do you hear she's too young for. classmates call them no they should only call in the afternoon i have a son too he studied in the same school as her so many in our district know him and are somewhat afraid of him because he is the champion of kurdistan. in fighting off admirers. yes in fighting off admirers. the two friends are planning to travel around the country. this tradition as many tragedies.
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understand why the girls hung themselves like that. why hang themselves only because they felt ashamed. time works wonders. for example he could have died an early death and she would have got everything he had. according to the center almost a third of all married women in the country were kidnapped by their husbands for instance in the family the brides have always been kidnapped they simply consider it a tradition as custom dictates the youngest son must live with his parents his wife is obliged to do all the household chores cleaning cooking and gardening she must also take care of her. mother in law has to do babysit her grandchildren and this continues until the girl's own child grows up and takes his wife into the house and repeats the cycle the custom has existed for centuries kidnapped girls eventually learn to live with their husbands and even become grateful for having been chosen.
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she drove a tractor going to work in the field and denied no house she was you know so far in his blood and he. that was the case wasn't it. yes that's true she was beautiful and. dragged her into my tractor like me. of course. not a wise i wouldn't have given birth to eleven children you know going to happen if i didn't. kidnap his wife from a music school because he himself likes to play the guitar and sing after they were met. he and his wife's sometimes organized concerts at different family occasions but now they've given that up they say they have so many chills that there isn't time for singing songs. that i used to live with. my room with in da
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i went to sleep on. their knock on the door open up it's the police which i can documents as open the doors some seven right guys surrounded me. they grabbed me and brought me here my husband turned out to be bad i would probably leave him but as a mother is a good husband. however in the district where the assayas live there have been three suicides. regularly put on theatrical productions this play discusses how brides are often kidnapped a girl is taken to a future husband's home where she is surrounded by his relatives who try to put a white scarf on her head the symbol of marriage doctors teachers and lawyers are
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among the most sought after brides in kurdistan when you start speaking here. let's say that the girl has not graduated yet she has graduated let's say she is in her final year she won't be allowed to work afterwards she is not graduated yet and the story becomes even sadder because she has studied for four years for nothing. according to the caregivers women's help center every year sees around sixteen thousand brides kidnapped that means that every forty minutes another girl is abducted. however the kidnappers themselves are rarely taken to court to answer for their crimes. five hundred and ninety six. that's how many reports this release received in two thousand and nine concerning a theft of private property did you see that the crime of kidnapping a woman or just one. girl's incurious turn can't abandon their unloved
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husbands they fear not only the condemnation of their neighbors but also being cursed the husband's grandmother may live on the floor and ask are you ready to defy old age it's believed that if a girl dares do so she'll be miserable all of the life. of us mother still can't forgive herself for having a baby old woman and not helping her daughter to escape she and her parents too intimidated by tradition. as she said that with two caraway both of us will suffer a lot she said she was going to curse us and my mom said that we could not disobey the woman as she was so old. she told us not to step over her. and will left. and so the girl stayed a week later she slashed her own wrists and tried to overdose doctors managed to
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save her life but the experience left us to go earlier disabled at the age of thirty eight she still lives with her mother and i don't have children i even don't have a husband but i want to have children and a husband. not a button is out of a from the open line foundation has come to visit the organization looks into bride kidnapping across the country including old cases the practice is always been an issue but has never been discussed openly. with the bios where you simply afraid they wouldn't be accepted at home. and then they would talk about me if i left. is that somehow if they try is than death. of course especially seriously. at that time yes it was even scarier i didn't want people to talk about me saying that all i'd be kidnapped but that i didn't want to live with the man who kidnapped me. everyone believes that if you're kidnapped you have to just agree to it.
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they can't help wondering why they value themselves so poorly because we had just one case when it goes over an old woman and said excuse me old woman but this is my life and i won't let anyone manipulate me. not every care of his family has a sad story of kidnapping to tell. it with which i was turning eighteen when i met her in the spring i was conscripted into the army. the people i returned to discover that they kidnapped her the day before i got back. or could i dare say. there are some traditions that are like and there are some that i don't like at all i don't understand some of them. when i
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was about to get married well we're not supposed to talk about our intentions openly so i put it bluntly that i love their daughter and wanted to marry her i asked them if they would let me and then there was a long pause and i realized i was too open but then everyone smiled diplomatically and asked who wanted to have some peel off. the back of. the two friends have many stories but now continue their journey to explore why those who've ruined other people's lives do not receive proper punishment. download the official application to self choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from alzheimer's t.v. is not required to watch on t.v.
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dog days of. pride days a. common. theme song see it's so true i. believe. in a country with a weak economy people often rely on fumbling for survival this means hard work that doesn't always pay off the price for ten kilograms of cocaine is
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a million dollars even though it takes a labor of a whole day together that much and they don't even get the money instead they're paid in cotton oil that's why most of the workforce has to russia kazakhstan or other foreign countries to seek employment most of the money they earn is spent on wedding ceremonies. carlos. lopez. brings together around a thousand people on average. throughout the day the closest relatives even messages a couple of days before the. time wining and dining the guests traditionally after the wedding ceremony delicacies to take home a single wedding ceremony requires about fifteen to horses forty kilos of and at
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least a thousand traditional flat bread loaves. there are two butchers here specifically what parts should be served. this is my mot and he is taking care of the. four. of spent a year in russia sweeping the streets to save money for his son's wedding he paid the bride's relatives the equivalent of some two thousand five hundred dollars he also paid for gifts and other treats. by working as a taxi driver in the russian city of novosibirsk. much more money than he could ever did his native village. for young people. could afford to rent a limousine with the money he. the country where he met his future wife.
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after a couple of dates. the bridegroom's friends like to tease him by calling his bride. a reference to her cleaner in a room where they say it was like a hockey stick. he and his friends forced their way into the bride's house and. the elders disapproved insisting that the kidnap tradition had not been upheld. lose. grandfather. does nothing like a simply elder. one of the most revered traditions is that of presenting gifts at a wedding ceremony each guest is supposed to bring a traditional how to. for the lady. of the gifts can be put to any practical use.
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completeness nothing but. we are going to keep that in the chest when. we in turn will tuck away the gifts presented to us. people know that. they will take the gifts out of the chest and. we don't. by presenting gifts is a tradition. the wedding traditions in. the transaction a love match a bride price can be as high as four thousand dollars making abduction of a much cheaper alternative. if you're. paying bride price is a different story then it's an all out bargain if you want to throw a plush wedding more than three thousand dollars in the event. comes down to
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about fifteen hundred. the district authorities are conducting an experiment to abductions they plan to limit the amount that can be spent on wedding ceremonies the bride price in. five slaughtered lambs to the limit for any wedding and no horses are without to be killed for the occasion no penalties for offenders. i firmly believe that people shouldn't go to the registry office in. an ordinary mercedes the simpler car will do what this new predictably not all the old timers share my view of i do. some of them were comfortable in the situation that existed until now they would drop in on a wedding or grab a kilo of meat and four or five loaves and go back home so i told them they could eat as much as they liked on such occasions but i ask them not to take any food away common folk see me as a reformer but some elders and wealthy people regard me as
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a nasty miser. human rights campaigners are trying to fight kidnapping by referring to the criminal code the penalty for kidnapping can be up to fifteen years. protect property strongly than a woman's freedom. is a conflict of legal terms people representing line force in bodies have even addressed drown table discussion not to say that this article should be excluded from the. no code and offenders should be charged under the connecting article but usually the men there disagree with this. operation as there are two brides are captured or show i say stolen by several young men sometimes friends of the groom family members and even worse clerics. they are respected people. even they make it clear that bride kidnapping conflicts with these lamblike
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law. the captors relatives and friends go unpunished and so they feel free to adopt another young woman young girls who run away find themselves in a more difficult situation the fact is that if a young woman spends even one night in someone else's house she is considered tainted and will never be able to marry. her and her baby has been staying at a crisis center for ten months she has nowhere else to go parents refuse to allow her back into their home campaigners at the open line movement make short films on the subject in this heroes a little girl whose parents who are always by his side to help hussein to video that when she grows up she's abducted and decides to flee the abductors her parents are in two minds about her decision. i want to know why they refuse to.
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come home that's how we're trying to bring down. i want to persuade the young woman's appearance to give their daughter a chance to make her own decision a different. point out that abduction is a criminal offense but kidnappers given it's three years in prison by contrast people who still. put behind bars for eleven years. and members of the column and others even came out and said nice you can need to. get a live in here is for cattle rustling is a complete and utter forest was less and she. mind you they voted in favor of legislation against stealing sheep in the first reading. campaign is from open line
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take to the streets to tell young women what they should do with abducted not to be afraid of anything and to immediately go to the police. do you know want to do if you're abducted do other girls know you. and i don't think they do because they stay on in many cases. do you know what is the right thing to do you were abducted. we want to scream and shout let me go. we've heard a lot of different stories some of the more astounding simply because they are routine somebody comes in kidnaps them that's the end of it you begin wondering whether such traditions are traditions at all. and his friend aziz have traveled around for two weeks during that time they have only come across one young woman who has defied tradition. unlike others in the
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same situation she didn't cry but try to settle the matter with the bridegroom parents. for this family it will be a disgrace if the bride leaves but i told them let's not argue you just let me go and that will be it was. the abductors were determined to persuade for nato to stay with them but she refused to give him when she called her father he sent her brothers to bring her back. as soon as i saw them toss the scarf away. and then the guy showed up. with tears in his eyes he pleaded with me not to leave him. he said he loved me and so on and i told him then you should have said that to . ventura resumed her studies at university and found employment but her parents still believe that leaving the family was wrong. they
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argue that veneer is now twenty four years old and past her prime standards. yes i think that these traditions and stereotypes of ours are just terribly outdated. the two travelers were in for another surprise after that encounter the first man to be charged with abducting a bride had been convicted. it's a great victory he was sentenced to six years in a medium security prison colony we hadn't expected anything like that would ever happen because article one fifty five of the criminal code is too liberal. the parents of one of the dead young women are sick and tired of gossiping neighbors a mother keeps the house doors shut and shoes passes by a way she blames herself for her daughter's death the bridegroom stole the
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restoring the night after phoning to lure her away from the house he took her to his village where she was raped. she was taken by force. she didn't understand what was going on. she was the youngest daughter and she was a virgin. it still pains me here in my heart. when we came to take our daughter away to go saying she was too ashamed to face other people i felt she was in there a low spirits i saw two things might work out somehow so were left. was persuaded to flee by her sister after returning home talked with her mother throughout the night she spoke of her plans saying she wanted to go to bishkek but in the morning . she hanged herself in a shed. the criminal was convicted on three counts
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abduction rape and forced suicide but people in his native village feel justice was not done they say the girl died after being separated from the man she loved. i would like to know what the bridegroom thinks about it all but so far he's not been allowed to see the kidnapper has launched an appeal and the chances are he may be set free. the final chapter in his book is yet to be written. well. it's technology innovation all the latest developments around russia we've got the future covered. wealthy british. world's.
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