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• She was forced to marry a 60-year-old man at the age of 12
• After five years, she met a boy and fled Pakistan for Afghanistan with him
• But her brother tracked them down, killed her boyfriend and left her for dead

A 17-year-old girl whose brother tried to murder her in an 'honour killing' said she wishes she had died after surviving an axe attack, disowned by her family for escaping a forced marriage.
At the age of 12, Gul Meena was married off to a 60-year-old man instead of being sent to school in Pakistan.
Every day he would hit her. She would beg him to stop but he carried on, ignoring her tears.

'My family would hit me when I complained,' she told CNN. 'They told me you belong in your husband's house - that is your life.'
In November last year, Gul packed a bag and ran away from her husband with a young Afghan man.
'I'd tried to kill myself with poison several times but it didn't work,' she said. 'I hated my life and I had to escape.

'When I ran away I knew it would be dangerous. I knew my husband and family would be looking for me but I never thought this would happen. I thought my future would be bright.'
After five years of marriage she escaped to Jalalabad in Afghanistan.
But within days, her brother had found the couple.
He hacked her boyfriend to death with an axe, and hit her 15 times with the weapon.


He fled back to their family thinking he had killed his sister, having left her lying in a pool of blood on her bed with part of her brain hanging out of her split skull.
Surgeons at the Nangarhar Regional Medical Centre saved her life despite losing so much blood.
But Gul had been disowned by her family and Pakistani authorities did not want to support her in those circumstances, reports CNN.
Doctors at the hospital paid for her medicine for two months before the charity Women for Afghan Women took her to a shelter in Kabul.
Manizha Naderi, the charity's executive director, told the channel that Gul could not feed herself and had to wear a diaper.


She said that she was fearful for what would happen to the Aghan women in the country's 14 refuge shelters when international forces pull out next year and take their funding with them.
Gul told CNN: 'I've tried to kill myself several times since arriving at the shelter but they won't let me. When I look at the mirror I put one hand to the side of my face. People tell me not to do that... but I'm so ashamed.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-died-day.html


Gul Meena shows the scars left by her brother after he struck her 15 times with an axe, trying to carry out an 'honour killing'


Gul has been taken in by a women's shelter in Afghanistan, where she arrived unable to feed herself


Gul Meena's brother thought he had killed her but surgeons were able to save her life



Gul's brother left her lying in a pool of blood on her bed with part of her brain hanging out of her split skull



Now living in a women's shelter, Gul told CNN she wishes she had died that day


How my brother tried to kill me in 'honor attack'

[Bastet]

Fucking 'honor killings'. If you're so afraid of losing your honor, kill yourself instead of attacking others.

[Pyramid_Head]

Bless her soul.

[Bbgirl676]

I wish there were more resources for women in these situations. Children sold as 'wives', left to be beaten and raped for decades - there should be a way to get them out and get them help.

I'll never understand how murdering a family member is 'honorable' while the child sold away wanting to run for safety is dishonorable.

[LadyCPlum]

'Honor" my fucking ass. And this is what will begin happening everywhere if the radical Muslims who are calling for implementation of Sharia law get their way. I'm sick of the world bending and scraping and bowing and being too scared of "offending" anyone to basically say that anyone who would call it honorable to do this to a woman or another family member is batshit crazy and needs to be thrown into the tightest straitjacket in the smallest padded cell available.

[Pie]

"Honour killing" Yeah alright mate, if that's what you want to call it. Somebody needs to take an axe to that cunts neck, see how he likes it.

[Brometheus]

shes actually kinda pretty, from that "axed" side view. The chopped hair makes for a unique design. I'd date her, American style.


whatever, that would mean to her.

[thissiteisfuckedup]

fucking cunts

[ldelgadillo]

it is unbelievable to me the way these backwards fanatics treat their women, their religios beliefs are hate filled and they want to kill anyone who has different beliefs. i say fuck profiling, fuck being politically correct, fanatic muslims are dangerous and need to be DEALT with [ fucking kill the bastards ]

[GlassToTheArson]

Originally Posted by Brometheus ↗

shes actually kinda pretty, from that "axed" side view. The chopped hair makes for a unique design. I'd date her, American style.


whatever, that would mean to her.

I have to agree. She is gorgeous