‘난민 반대’ 2차 집회… “무사증 폐지·가짜난민 송환해야” 제주도에 들어온 예멘인들의 난민 인정을 반대하는 시민들이 주말 저녁 서울 도심에서 집회를 갖고 즉각 송환을 요구했다. ‘난민반대 국민행동’은 14일 저녁 서울 종로구 동화면세점 앞에서 ‘난민법 폐지, 무사증 제도 폐지, 제주 예멘인 추방 촉구 집회’를 열고 “가짜 난민을 송환하고 난민법과 무사증 입국 제도를 폐지하라”라고 촉구했다. 집회 참석자들은 “난민사태는 예멘인 500여명만 추방하면 끝나는 것이 아니다”라며 “우리나라에서 수용할 수 없는 풍습을 가진 무슬림들은 이슬람 국가 이외의 나라에서 사회 문제가 되고 있다”고 주장했다. 또 “무사증 제도를 즉각 폐지하라”면서 “우리를 혐오자로 모는 언론은 각성해야 한다”는 불만도 표출했다. 이들은 집회 내내 ‘국민이 먼저다’ ‘가짜 난민 송환’ ‘국민의 동의 없는 난민법 폐지’ ‘무사증 폐지’ 등이 적힌 손팻말을 들고 난민에 대한 거부감을 노골적으로 드러냈다. 특히 난민법을 악용한 입국자로 인한 사회 불안이 야기될 수 있다는 점을 들어 “국민들을 위험에 빠뜨리는 난민법 폐지 법안을 즉각 처리해야 한다”라고 강조했다. 이날 행사는 지난달 30일에 이후 두 번째로 열린 난민 반대 집회다. 지난 집회는 ‘불법난민신청자외국인대책국민연대’ 주도로 열렸으나 내부 사정으로 인해 해산, 두 번째 집회는 난민대책 국민행도 주최로 진행됐다. 앞선 집회 때는 동화면세점 인근에서 난민 반대 집회를 반대하는 맞불 집회가 열렸으나 이번에는 진행되지 않았다. 난민 논란은 최근 제주도로 예멘인 500여명이 입국하면서 불거졌다. 예멘은 지난 2015년 수니파 정부군과 시아파 반군 사이에 내전이 벌어져 28만명에 이르는 난민이 발생한 것으로 알려져 있다. 논란이 커지면서 법무부에서도 29일 제주도 예멘 난민에 대한 심사 기간을 2~3개월 수준으로 단축키로 했다. 인력을 추가로 투입해 심사 기간을 단축하겠다는 것이다. 통상 난민심사는 약 8개월 소요되는
파키스탄 2008년 이 후 3000여 명 여성 명예살인
파키스탄 여성인권 단체인 Aurat 제단은 파키스탄 언론과의 인터뷰에서 2008 년 이후 3,000명 이상의 파키스탄 여성이 "명예살인"를 당했다고 밝혔다.
SUKKUR-
Razia Shaikh looks up to the sky, her eyes glistening with tears and a Quran in her lap, seeking divine justice for one missing daughter and another slain by vengeful relatives in the name of “honour”.
The widow, in her 40′s, wails as she shows two photos of her daughter — bright-eyed and vivacious in one, in the other cold and lifeless, shrouded in her white burial cloth.
Shaikh is one of countless mothers to suffer the misery of “karo-kari”, murders carried out supposedly to preserve family honour or avenge some perceived slight.
The Aurat Foundation, a campaign group that works to improve the lives of women in Pakistan, says more than 3,000 have been killed for “honour” since 2008.
- Marriage and murder -
Sitting on a traditional charpoy bed outside her one-room home in Sachal Shah Miani village, off the bank of the River Indus in Sindh, Shaikh recounts her tale of woe.
It began when her elder daughter Khalida went missing from the home of her in-laws in the southern port city of Karachi in 2010.
What became of Khalida is unclear, but the in-laws blamed Shaikh, a widow struggling to keep her dignity despite extreme poverty.
As Shaikh was grieving for her missing daughter, her in-laws started demanding she marry her younger daughter Shahida to another of their sons.
Shaikh refused and three men broke into her home, shooting her second daughter in the back. They justified the murder by accusing her of adultery and have not been punished.
“For the sake of Allah I appeal to the ministers, the judges and the police to get me justice,” said Shaikh, weeping.
Government efforts to crack down on these attacks have had little success and the killings remain a particular problem in poor and rural areas of Pakistan.
In the absence of material wealth, concepts of honour and preserving the family’s good name are highly valued.
Moreover, Pakistani law allows the relatives of a victim to “forgive” the killer in return for blood money — meaning that if the relatives themselves have arranged the killing, prosecution can be avoided.
Marriages in Pakistan are usually arranged and often take place between cousins, which can add a further motive in the form of rows over dowries.
Irum Awan, a female police officer, heads a special force set up in Sindh in 2008 to fight the menace.
“In most cases, ‘honour’ is just a pretext whereas the real motive is that they don’t want to give the shares in property to their sister or daughter,” Awan said.
- Feudal ties -
It is not only women who suffer and not only matters of love and marriage that lead to such killings.
Criminal justice in Pakistan is deeply mired in local politics, particularly in areas like Sindh where society remains largely feudal, with huge power concentrated in the hands of big hereditary landowners.
And questions of “honour” can be invoked to settle other unrelated disputes.
In a small village west of the town of Sukkur, Mohammad Hasan lives in hiding after being declared “karo” by the local feudal landlord.
“I was declared karo after a dispute that started about land which was mine. They wanted to capture my land,” Hasan told foreign news agency in a tiny house, located in a scruffy alley by an open sewer.
The landlord sent his men to threaten Hasan, giving him the choice of surrendering his land, his only source of income, or paying 800,000 rupees ($8,000) to settle the dispute — or face the consequences.
“My life is in danger — they have already attacked me three times,” Hasan told the news agency.
“I am a poor man, I am just sitting at home and hiding here and there. He is an influential man, he can do anything with me.”
The abuse of women and poor men under the guise of “honour” has gone on for centuries across South Asia, but the British colonial rulers suppressed the practice.
“In the British rule, they would hold responsible and round up the whole village where the karo-kari would take place, and thus the menace vanished during that time,” said Javed Alam Odho, the police chief of the Sukkur region.
But now weak law enforcement and poor prosecution, often influenced by powerful people, keep the killers at large.
Awan admits her frustration at the way suspects are able to work the system to avoid justice.
“Some days ago we conducted, you won’t believe, more than 10 raids to arrest a person who killed his wife,” she said.
“But when we produced him before the honourable judge, he released him on bail.”
Annually, estimates suggest more than 350 murders are committed in the name of honour in Sindh.
“If you look at the Sindhi newspapers, two to three incidents are reported daily and this is a routine,” said Khalid Banbhan, bureau chief of Ibrat, a prominent Sindhi-language daily.
“Hardly there is a day when no report appears in the newspapers about karo-kari.”
Covering the problem in rural areas is a challenging task for local journalists, who are exposed to the wrath of local feudal chieftains who are usually powerful enough to have troublemakers punished, or even killed, with few repercussions.
Banbhan referred to a case in which a journalist received death threats after reporting a case of a landlord holding a village council that sentenced two women to death after declaring them “kari”.
출처: http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/11/17/national/over-3000-women-killed-for-honour-in-pakistan-since-2008/
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