Sorry for the mess

News from Dawn (Pakistani newspaper), brought to my attention by Twisty.

ISLAMABAD, Aug 29: Balochistan Senator Sardar Israrullah Zehri stunned the upper house on Friday when he defended the recent incident of burying alive three teenage girls and two women in his province, saying it was part of “our tribal custom.”

Senator Bibi Yasmin Shah of the PML-Q raised the issue citing a newspaper report that the girls, three of them aged between 16 and 18 years, had been buried alive a month ago for wishing to marry of their own will.

Full story here.

Unsurprisingly, there’s exactly nothing about this story in any major paper or news site (or at least not that I could find). It didn’t involve a British person therefore it’s clearly not newsworthy. Worse, the victims weren’t even white! Egads, but this makes me mad. The very fact that this kind of thing happens is bad enough, but the fact that international brotherhood of Western media couldn’t care less is abhorrent.

We weep for a bird’s cry, but not for a fish’s blood. Blessed are those with a voice.

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