2010-03-15 15:10:34

Pakistani Christian maid burned alive


(March 15, 2010) Another Pakistani Christian girl has died after she was raped and burnt alive by the son of her Muslim employer. Kiran George was admitted to Mayo Hospital in Lahore on March 9 in critical condition with burns on 80% of her body. The girl who worked for a Muslim family in Sheikhupura, a town in Punjab, died last Thursday after two days of agony. Peter Jacob, executive secretary of the Catholic Church’s National Commission for Justice and Peace, NCJP, told AsiaNews that Mohammad Raza Ahmda raped the Christian girl who, at first, confided only with her friends for fear of losing her job. The extreme poverty of her family had led her to remain silent. When the girl threatened with revealing her story to the police, Ahmda prevented her from escaping. With the help of his sister, he then doused George with petrol and set her on fire. Instead of taking the girl to hospital, her Muslim employer called her parents telling them that her clothes caught fire while cleaning the kitchen. However, before dying, the girl told the whole story to the police who have started an investigation on the young man. The case of Kiran George is similar to the story of Shazia Bashir, the 12 year old Christian girl who was raped and murdered by a powerful lawyer in Lahore in January. The crime is still unpunished.







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