The United Nations has lent its voice to ongoing condemnation of the brutal killing and burning to death of a 27-year-old mentally-deranged woman in Afganistan, accused of burning a quran.
Video has shown the Afghan woman being dragged onto a roof and hit with a stick, as a horde of angry, screaming men swarm around her.
The video later shows her standing with her face covered in blood, after she is pushed and falls over, and her beating continues with feet, with rocks, with boards. Then, in the last part of the video, her body is engulfed in flames.
Acting head of the U.N.’s Afghanistan mission, Mark Bowden said while burning the Quran hurts efforts to promote “understanding and mutual respect between cultures and religions, the brutal murder of the woman is an unspeakably horrendous act that should result in those responsible being prosecuted, to the fullest extent possible, under Afghan law.
The horrific incident which played out in Kabul on Thursday, already is having ripple effects, especially as the woman’s parents had told newsmen that their daughter suffered from mental health problems for the last 16 years.
It’s not known whether her attackers knew this, or whether it would have mattered.
Witnesses say what motivated the mob was a belief that the targeted woman had burned the Quran, although there are no proofs that she set a copy ablaze.
Meanwhile, Afghanistan’s Ministry of Hajj and Religious Affairs has found no evidence the woman burned the sacred book.
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