Amreen, a Moslem girl, and Lokesh, a Hindu boy met and fell in love. Her father raised milk cows and sold milk as the family business. Lokesh was a regular customer. The young people ran away together, were legally married, then made their fatal mistake. They came home again.
Their angry families and the elders of their community pressured the newlyweds to spare all from any further embarrassment by offering them a choice: divorce or suicide.
Amreen and Lokesh killed themselves rather than be separated. Local police are investigating and promise charges will be brought against any responsible for pressuring the young lovers into taking their own lives.
The village chief says Amreen and Lokesh would have been better off if they had stayed away.
Read more about this tragedy here.
I, for one, will never understand how you can raise a child, love that child for all the years of their life, nurture that young life, wish for all happiness and good things of Life for that child then demand that child commit suicide.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
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