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Three Kurdish Women Commit Suicide by Self-Immolation
By IHRV | December 24, 2008
The Azar Mehr Women’s Association, while expressing concerns over hard and challenging conditions that most Kurdish women are faced with, in their recent news letter have reported that three Kurdish women have set themselves on fire: “During the past month, in different parts of Orumanat, in Kermanshah province, three Kurdish women committed suicide. Based on the latest news, a 16 year-old girl named Sahar Ra’ufi from Paveh City and another girl, Fatemeh Abbass Manesh, who is from Javanrud, have set themselves on fire because of family problems. Both girls lost their lives due to injuries sustained from the burn.”
The report further says that: “At the beginning of the current month, in Salas Babajani County, a 24 year-old woman named Siran Rahimi, who had been married for only a week, due to quarrels with her husband set herself on fire and lost her life.”
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