Alice:
Thanks for the link... I have not yet heard of "honor killings" among Bangaladeshi Hindus in the aftermath of "political" rape - but if you find sites spesific to that - please do send them to me. The report on the web page you link speaks in general of Bangladesh, and as the perpitrator community, at the moment is fundimentalist Moslem, the reference may be to "honor killing" among that group. I will put the question to the folks I am working with in the Hindu - Budhist and Christian community as well. There is a question I rase in the song... one that I leave up to the listener to answer, which is why cannot the community also take care enough of the victem, but, for a community who has gone through such horrible abuse, murder and uprooting with has caused the Hindu population to go from 40 to 9 per cent of the Bangladeshi population ... I put the emphasis on the perpatrator community, but the last verse really does ask the quesiton, why is the shame only the victems...
Thanks again,
Larry