Christian girl, 16, gets 50 lashes for wearing 'indecent' knee-length skirt in Sudan

 

ေကာင္မေလးအဖမ္းခံၿပီးအၿပစ္ေပးခံခဲ ့ရတဲ ့ဆူဒန္နုိင္ငံၿမိဳ ့ေတာ္
ခါတြန္ ကေစ်းတစ္ခုေပါ ့....
The Omdurman market in Khartoum (file picture), one of the city's many markets. Silva Kashif was arrested as she walked to a market near her home in the Khartoum suburb of Kalatla last week

ဆူဒန္နုိင္ငံမွ အသက္ ၁၆ ႏွစ္အရြယ္ရွိေကာင္မေလးတစ္ေယာက္ကုိ ဒူးဆစ္အထိရွည္လ်ားေသာ စကတ္၀တ္ဆင္ထားခဲ ့မိၿခင္းသည္ အမ်ားၿပည္သူၿမင္ကြင္းတြင္ ( အစၥလာမ္တရားဥပေဒအရ )
မတင္ ့တယ္၊ အၿမင္မေတာ္ၿဖစ္ေစေႀကာင္း တရားသူႀကီးတစ္ဦးက ဆံုးၿဖတ္ခဲ ့ၿပီးေနာက္ ႀကိမ္
ဒါဏ္အခ်က္ ၅၀ အၿပစ္ေပးခဲ ့သည္ဟု သူမ၏မိသားစုက ဆုိခဲ ့ပါတယ္...
ခရစ္ယာန္ဘာသာ၀င္ၿဖစ္တဲ ့အဆုိပါေကာင္မေလးရဲ ့မိခင္ Silva Kashif ကေတာ ့သူမရဲ ့သမီး
ေလးကုိ အစၥလာမ္ ဘာသာေရးဆုိင္ရာဥပေဒ Sharia Law အရ စီရင္ဆံုးၿဖတ္၊အၿပစ္ေပးခဲ ့ႀက
တဲ ့ရဲတပ္ဖြဲ ့နဲ ့အဆုိပါတရားသူႀကီးကုိ တရားစဲြဆုိမယ္လုိ ့ေၿပာႀကားခဲ ့ပါတယ္...
သူမရဲ ့သမီးၿဖစ္သူကုိ ႀကိမ္ဒါဏ္အၿပစ္ေပးခဲ ့ၿပီးမွ ထုိအၿဖစ္အပ်က္ကုိသိရွိခဲ ့ရတဲ ့မိခင္ၿဖစ္သူ
က တရားရံုးအေနနဲ ့သူမတုိ ့မိသားစုရဲ ့ကုိးကြယ္ယံုႀကည္တဲ ့ဘာသာတရားကုိလည္းထည္ ့
သြင္းစဥ္းစားသင္ ့တယ္လုိ ့ဆုိပါတယ္...( အစၥလာမ္ဘာသာ၀င္ မဟုတ္သူမ်ားကုိ အစၥလာမ္
ဘာသာေရးဆုိင္ရာဥပေဒနဲ ့စီရင္ဆံုးၿဖတ္ၿခင္းမၿပဳႀကပါဘူး....)


ဆူဒန္နုိင္ငံေတာင္ပုိင္း Yambio ၿမဳိ ့မွာေနထုိင္ခဲ ့ႀကတဲ ့မိသားစု၀င္ၿဖစ္တဲ ့အဆုိပါေကာင္မေလး
Kashif  ဟာ ၿမဳိ ့ေတာ္ Khartoum  ရဲ ့ ဆင္ေၿခဖံုးေဒသၿဖစ္တဲ ့  Kalatla  အရပ္ကေစ်းအနီးမွာ
( ဒူးအထိအရွည္ရွိတဲ ့စကတ္ ကုိ၀တ္ဆင္ၿပီး ) လမ္းေလွ်ာက္ေနခဲ ့စဥ္အဖမ္းခံခဲ ့ရတာလုိ ့ရုိက္
တာသတင္းဌာနကုိ ေၿပာႀကားခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

” သူမဟာ ကေလးမေလးအရြယ္သာရွိေသးေပမယ္ ့ရဲတပ္ဖဲြ ့၀င္တစ္ဦးဟာ သူမကုိ ရာဇ၀တ္
သားတစ္ဦးလုိ ေစ်းလမ္းတစ္ေလွ်ာက္ ဆဲြေခၚဖမ္းဆီးသြားတာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...ဒါဟာ အင္မတန္
မွ မေလ်ာ္ကန္၊ မသင္ ့ၿမတ္တဲ ့လုပ္ရပ္ၿဖစ္ပါတယ္....”  လုိ ့ Doro ကေၿပာခဲ ့ပါတယ္...
Khashif  ေလးကုိ Kalatla ေဒသဆုိင္ရာ တရားရံုးကုိေခၚေဆာင္သြားခဲ ့ၿပီး အၿပစ္ရွိေႀကာင္း
စီရင္ခ်က္ခ်ကာ တရားသူႀကီးရဲ ့မ်က္ေမွာက္မွာပဲ အမ်ဴိးသမီးရဲတပ္ဖြဲ ့၀င္တစ္ဦးက ႀကိမ္
ဒါဏ္အၿပစ္ေပးခဲ ့တာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...

သမီးေလးကုိ ႀကိမ္ဒါဏ္အၿပစ္ေပးခဲ ့ၿပီးမွပဲ အဲဒီအေႀကာင္းကုိကြ်န္မ သိရွိခဲ ့ရတာၿဖစ္ၿပီး
စိတ္မထိန္းနုိ္င္ပဲ ငုိေႀကြးခဲ ့ရပါတယ္.... လူေတြမွာ ကုိးကြယ္ယံုႀကည္မွဳအမ်ဴိးမ်ဴိးရွိႀကၿပီး
သူတုိ ့အေနနဲ ့အဲဒါကုိေတာ ့ထည္ ့သြင္းစဥ္းစားသင္ ့ႀကပါတယ္ လုိ ့သူမရဲ ့မိခင္ၿဖစ္သူ
ကေၿပာဆုိခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

ေကာင္မေလးရဲ ့ေရွ ့ေနၿဖစ္သူ Azhari al-Haj ကေတာ ့အရြယ္မေရာက္ေသးတဲ ့( ဥပေဒ
အရ အေရးယူေဆာင္ရြက္ဖုိ ့အသက္မၿပည္ ့ေသးတဲ  ့) မိန္းကေလးတစ္ေယာက္ကုိ ဖမ္း
ဆီးအေရးယူ အၿပစ္ေပးခဲ ့မွဳနဲ ့ရဲတပ္ဖြဲ ့နဲ ့တရားသူႀကီးကုိတရားစြဲဆုိဖုိ ့ ၿပင္ဆင္ေဆာင္ရြက္
ေနတယ္လုိ ့ဆုိပါတယ္...
ဥပေဒအရ အသက္ ၁၈ ႏွစ္မၿပည္ ့ေသးသူမ်ားကုိ ႀကိမ္ဒါဏ္အၿပစ္မေပးနုိင္ပါဘူးလုိ ့သူက
ဆုိခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

” သူမဟာ တစ္ၿခားေကာင္မေလးေတြအားလံုး၀တ္သလုိ သာမာန္ စကတ္နဲ ့ဘေလာက္စ္
အကၤ် ီကုိသာ၀တ္ဆင္ထားခဲ ့တာပါ၊ အဲဒါကုိ သူတုိ ့( ရဲနဲ ့တရားသူႀကီး ) က မိဘအုပ္
ထိန္းသူကုိအေႀကာင္းမႀကားပဲ ခ်က္ခ်င္းပဲဖမ္းဆီးၿပီး၊ ခ်က္ခ်င္အေရးယူအၿပစ္ေပးခဲ ့လုိက္
ႀကတာပါပဲ...” လို ့ေရွ ့ေနကေၿပာၿပပါတယ္...

သူ ့အေနနဲ ့ကေလးမေလးဟာ အခုလုိမွားယြင္းစြာအၿပစ္ေပးခံရၿခင္းအတြက္ေလ်ာ္ေႀကးရနုိင္ၿပီး
သူမရဲ  ့ၿပစ္မွဳမွတ္တမ္းမွလည္း ကင္းရွင္းသြားနုိင္မွာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္၊ ၿပီးေတာ ့ကြ်န္ေတာ္တုိ္ ့အေန
နဲ ့အခုလုိစကတ္၀တ္ဆင္မိတာနဲ ့တင္ ႀကိမ္ဒါဏ္အၿပစ္ေပးတဲ ့ဥပေဒကုိလည္းသေဘာမတူ
ဆန္ ့က်င္ပါတယ္...အဆုိပါဥပေဒကုိၿပင္ဆင္ေၿပာင္းလဲဖုိ ့ေတာင္းဆုိပါတယ္ လုိ ့ေရွ ့ေနၿဖစ္
သူကေၿပာဆုိခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

ယခုလုိၿဖစ္ပြားခဲ ့တဲ ့အမွဳေႀကာင္ ့ယခင္ ကုလသမဂၢအဖဲြ ့၀န္ထမ္းၿဖစ္တဲ ့ဆူဒန္အမ်ဴိးသမီး
Lubna Hussein ကုိ အမ်ားၿပည္သူၿမင္ကြင္းမွာ ေဘာင္ဘီအရွည္၀တ္ဆင္ခဲ ့မွဳနဲ ့ဖမ္းဆီးထိန္း
သိမ္းခဲ ့မွဳ ေႀကာင္ ့မေက်မနပ္ၿဖစ္ခဲ ့ႀကရမွဳအေပၚမွာထပ္ၿပီး အေၿခအတင္အၿငင္းပြားဖြယ္ရာ
ၿဖစ္ေစမွာ ၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...

စာနယ္ဇင္းသတင္းေထာက္ေဟာင္းလည္းၿဖစ္တဲ ့အမ်ဴိးသမီး Hussein ဟာ သူမအၿပစ္ေပးခံခဲ ့
ရတဲ ့ဆူဒန္နုိင္ငံရည္ ့အမ်ားၿပည္သူအၿမင္မွာမတင္ ့တယ္ေစၿခင္းဆုိင္ရာ၀တ္စားၿခင္း ဥပေဒ
ရဲ ့တရားမွ်တမွဳမရွိၿခင္းနဲ ့မတရားအၿပစ္ေပးခံခဲ ့ရၿခင္းတုိ ့အတြက္စာအုပ္ထုတ္ေ၀ဖို  ့နဲ ့အဆုိပါ
အေႀကာင္းက်ယ္က်ယ္ၿပန္ ့ၿပန္ ့သိရွိေစဖုိ ့ၿပင္သစ္နုိင္ငံကုိေရာက္ရွိေနပါတယ္...
သူမကုိ ႀကိမ္ဒါဏ္ အခ်က္ေလးဆယ္အၿပစ္ေပးဖုိ ့စီရင္ခ်က္ခ်မွတ္ခဲ ့ေပမယ္ ့ေနာက္ပုိင္းမွာေတာ ့
ထုိအၿပစ္ဒါဏ္ကုိ ေလ်ာ ့ေပါ ့ေပးခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

အမ်ားၿပည္သူအၿမင္မတင္ ့တယ္ေအာင္၀တ္စားဆင္ယင္မွဳ၊ မူးယစ္ရမ္းကားမွဳ နဲ ့ၿပည္သူက်င္ ့
၀တ္ဆုိင္ရာဥပေဒခ်ဴိးေဖာက္မဳွေတြအတြက္ ဖမ္းဆီးခံရမွဳေတြဟာ ေတာ ့ အစၥလာမ္တရားဥပ
ေဒနဲ ့စီရင္အုပ္ခ်ဴပ္တဲ ့ဆူဒန္နုိင္ငံ ၿမဳိ ့ေတာ္ ခါတြန္မွာ ေတာ ့သိပ္ၿပီးအထူးအဆန္းမဟုတ္ေတာ ့
ပါဘူး...

ဒါေပမယ္ ့ ၿမဳိ ့ေတာ္ခါတြန္မွာေနထုိင္ႀကတဲ ့အစၥလာမ္ဘာသာ၀င္မဟုတ္တဲ ့နုိင္ငံေတာင္ပုိင္း
ဇာတိသားေတြ ကုိ အစၥလာမ္ဥပေဒနဲ ့ဖမ္းဆီးအေရးယူအၿပစ္ေပးခဲ ့ ႀကတာကေတာ ့အမ်ားစု
အတြက္လက္မခံနုိင္တဲ ့အေႀကာင္းကိစၥတစ္ရပ္ၿဖစ္ေနခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

နုိင္ငံေတာင္ပုိင္းနဲ ့ေၿမာက္ပုိင္းၿဖစ္ပြားခဲ ့တဲ ့ပဋိပကၡ ကုိေၿပၿငိမ္းခဲ ့တဲ ့၂၀၀၅ ခုႏွစ္ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္း
ေရးသေဘာတူညီခ်က္အရ အစၥလာမ္ဘာသာ၀င္မဟုတ္တဲ ့ ေတာင္ပုိင္းသားမ်ားကုိ အစၥ
လာမ္ဥပေဒအရတရားစီရင္ၿခင္းမၿပဳဖုိ ့၊ အမွဳအခင္းၿဖစ္ခဲ ့ယင္လည္းသက္ညွာဖုိ ့ဆံုးၿဖတ္
ခဲ ့ႀကပါတယ္...

အဆုိပါသေဘာတူညီမွဳအရ ခရစ္ယာန္ဘာသာကုိးကြယ္သူမ်ားနဲ ့ရုိးရာဓေလ ့ယံုႀကည္
ကိုကြယ္သူမ်ားအမ်ားစုေနထုိင္တဲ ့ေတာင္ပုိင္းေဒသမွာ အစၥလာမ္ဘာသာေရးဥပေဒ
Sharia Law ကုိရုပ္သိမ္းခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

အမ်ားၿပည္သူအၿမင္မတင္ ့တယ္ေစရန္၀တ္စားဆင္ယင္မွဳဥပေဒဟာ တိက်ေရရာမွဳလံုး၀
မရွိတဲ ့အတြက္ ၿပည္သူ ့၀န္ထမ္းရဲေတြအေနနဲ ့ဘယ္လုိ၀တ္စားဆင္ယင္တာဟာၿဖင္ ့ဥပ
ေဒနဲ ့မညီညြတ္သလဲဆုိတာ ဆံုးၿဖတ္နုိင္ဖုိ ့အတြက္မ်ားစြာ အေႀကာင္းၿပေစနုိင္တဲ ့အခြင္ ့
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A 16-year-old Sudanese girl was lashed 50 times after a judge ruled her knee-length skirt was indecent, her family said today.
The mother of Christian teenager Silva Kashif said she is to sue police and the judge who imposed the sentence under Islamic shariah law.
Saying she only learned about her daughter's conviction after she had been lashed, mother Jenty Doro said the family's religion should have been taken into account.
Kashif, whose family comes from the south Sudanese town of Yambio, was arrested while walking to the market near her home in the Khartoum suburb of Kalatla last week, Doro told Reuters.
'She is just a young girl but the policeman pulled her along in the market like she was a criminal. It was wrong,' said Doro.
Doro said Khashif was taken to Kalatla court where she was convicted and punished by a female police officer in front of the judge.
'I only heard about it after she was lashed. Later we all sat and cried ... People have different religions and that should be taken into account' she said.
Kashif's lawyer Azhari al-Haj said he was preparing a case against the police and judge for arresting and sentencing an under-age girl. He said according to the law, people under 18 should not be given lashes.
'She was wearing a normal skirt and blouse, worn by thousands of girls. They didn't contact a guardian and punished her on the spot.'
Al-Haj said he was hoping to win compensation and to clear Kashif's record. 'We are also against the law itself. We want the law to be changed.'
The case will add fuel to a debate already raging over Sudan's decency laws after this year's high-profile conviction of Sudanese U.N. official Lubna Hussein, who was briefly jailed for wearing trousers in public.
Hussein, a former journalist who used her case to campaign against Sudan's public order and decency regulations, is touring France to publicise her book about the prosecution.
She had faced the maximum penalty of 40 lashes but was given a lighter sentence.
Arrests for indecency, drunkenness and other public order offences are not uncommon in Khartoum which is governed by Islamic sharia law.
But the punishment of residents of the capital originating from the south remains a sensitive issue.
Sudan is supposed to be working to soften the impact of sharia for southerners living in Khartoum under a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of north-south civil war.
The deal lifted sharia law in the south, where most follow Christianity and traditional beliefs.
Women's groups argue the decency laws are too vague, giving the country's separate public order police too much freedom to decide what kind of dress is appropriate.
Nigerian football star Stephen Worgu this month said he had been sentenced to 40 lashes after being wrongly convicted of drunk driving in Khartoum. The sentence has been postponed pending an appeal.