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Perverts kill girl for honor

Do you deserve to die by stoning if you happen to fall in love with someone who belongs to another religious sect? It sounds crazy in the truest sense of the word, but it's true. This is what happened to Du'a Khalil Aswad, a 17-year-old girl belonging to the Yezidi religious minority in Northern Iraq, who was killed by a group of at least eight men in the presence of a large crowd in the town of Bashika, near the city of Mosul, on April 7, 2007. Worse is that some of her relatives had participated in the gruesome killing when they learned that the teenage girl was having a relationship with a Sunni Muslim teenage boy after she failed to go home one night. Reports said she was given shelter in the house of a Yezidi tribal leader in Bashika, but her relatives have forced their way into the leader's house and took her outside and stoned to death. Accordingly, the stoning lasted for half an hour and was recorded on video film, allegedly in the presence of law enforcement author