[Mixus]

Wasn't it her relatives who did this?

[corrico]

Originally Posted by Mixus ↗

But this isn't about racism, she was a victim of abuse.

You are right, I guess I did digress a bit. But, be it racism, or abuse, (little seperates the two,as racism is still a form of abuse) it saddens me to see things like this, to see how we can hurt each other, so brutally. It disgusts me. Respect, love, and harmony. It's not a hard concept to grasp.

[DiamondSmiles]

Originally Posted by Mixus ↗

Wasn't it her relatives who did this?

It was her husband. She was married at 16 and suffered abuse until age 19.

[Spiffyfable]

Upsetting to me and Degrading to Humans as a Species

[gorefanatic]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibi_Aisha

In a practice known as baad, Aisha's father promised her to a Taliban fighter when she was 12 years old as compensation for a killing that a member of her family had committed. She was married at 14 and subjected to constant abuse. At 18, she fled the abuse but was caught by police, jailed, and returned to her family. Her father returned her to her in-laws. To take revenge on her escape, her father-in-law, husband, and three other family members took Aisha into the mountains, cut off her nose and her ears, and left her to die.[1] Bibi was later rescued by aid workers and the U.S. military. Some sources disputed the role of any members of the Taliban in her mutilation at the time it happened.[2][3]

[gorefanatic]

http://aww.ninemsn.com/news/newsstor...r-face-rebuilt

Aesha, now 22, is living in the US and is six months into facial reconstruction surgery.

Although she is thrilled to be on her way to a new face, Aesha's current appearance is alarming.

Her forehead has ballooned out thanks to an inflatable silicon shell doctors have been gradually filling with liquid to grow skin for her new nose, and the hole in her face where her nose once was is now covered in drooping skin transplanted from her forearm.

Aesha will soon undergo another surgery which will see doctors take cartilage from a rib to construct a new nose.

The extra skin she is growing on her forehead will then be "flapped down" to cover the cartilage structure.

By June next year, Aesha's transformation will be complete, and her surgeons say she should have a completely natural-looking nose, something she is thrilled about.

Aesha says the procedure has given her hope that she will be able to have a normal life.

"At the beginning, I was very scared. I was scared to look at my face in the mirror," she told CNN.

"I was scared to think what will happen in the future to me. But now I'm not scared anymore. Now I know the meaning of life, how to live. There, I couldn't understand how to live."

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[PsychodelicTurtle]

Love the new nose! You go girl!! May those pricks who did it to you WILL suffer three times worse than you!!!

[DiamondSmiles]

Thank you for the updates, rubbernecking.

In the second interview in the op, she only mentioned her husband, but, I'm not surprised the in-laws got into the act.

I guess that was why she was punished. She disgraced her family. She was just a piece of property to them giving her back to them!

[Mixus]

[benado]

Wow she is still so gorgeous!