Considered for the TIME's 100 world's most influential people. A chilling testimony to the deepest levels of human cruelty, this is the testimony of Mukhtar Mai, a 28-year old Pakistani woman. In 2002 she was sentenced by Meerwala's tribal counsel to endure a collective rape in redress for an action committed by her 13-year old brother ?when in reality it was a show of power. After suffering nameless atrocities, Mai decides to forego the tradition of committing suicide to denounce the crime.
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Considered for the TIME's 100 world's most influential people. A chilling testimony to the deepest levels of human cruelty, this is the testimony of Mukhtar Mai, a 28-year old Pakistani woman. In 2002 she was sentenced by Meerwala's tribal counsel to endure a collective rape in redress for an action committed by her 13-year old brother ?when in reality it was a show of power. After suffering nameless atrocities, Mai decides to forego the tradition of committing suicide to denounce the crime.
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This is a recent memoir of entirely true events. It is certainly one of the most worthwhile & motivational books of the past 20 years. This wonderful, devout woman's quiet determination put me in mind of the character of Mahatma Gandhi. It bears some similarities but has more depth in comparison to the 1990 film "Not without my daugher", starring Sally Field.
Also note: it is not a lengthy read; & it is written in a simple, understated, humble manner. It would perhaps be especially engaging for a class of high school AP literature or womens' studies. It does not contain graphic, detailed descriptions of the violent acts, injuries caused, etc. It bears some similarities, but perhaps more depth, to "Not without my daughter", the film starring Sally Field from1990.
M. Mai is a devout & submissive Muslim born in an area of Pakistan where clan rule has deteriorated into a non-devout, but instead vicious & angry version of mob rule. When a young boy in her family was accused of forward behavior with a female of a neighboring clan (an incorrect accusation), M. Mai , did not initiate a plan to intervene; but cooperated with her relatives' request that she be the emissary & visit the other family in an attempt to soothe the misunderstanding.
Within a few moments of her arrival there, after she quietly invoked Koranic guidelines about resolving community differences, the males of the other clan responded by immediately attacking & gang -raping her, then dumped her outside, huddled and traumatized. When she attempted to quietly ask for some attempt at justice according to the local system, the local authority took bad events & made them worse, by handing her a blank sheet of paper & suggesting that she place her mark at the bottom as a signature & that he would fill in her description of events. Anyone who is interested in television programs such as Cold Case Files or Forensic Files will recognize that this was not a genuine description & suggestion of a solution. All this produced, was a further coverup of events by this supposed justice authority. Even at this point, M. Mai was not belligerently pursuing community acitivism or journalists' coverage; they found her and pursued publishing some coverage of these events.
By way of introduction to my background & the relevance of my review, my dad was a Navy pilot in Cuba, Korea & Vietnam; our entire family lived in Japan on two occasions for two or three years on each tour of duty. In college, I studied French as my undergraduate major, then received my degree in Library Sciences; so my whole life has included a continuing fascination with understanding the experiences of those who live in cultural backgrounds other than American. Be alert to publishing detail, when locating your copy of this disturbing but ultimately inspirational memoir. The original title was published in French, from a co-author whose last name is Cuny. So various stores, libraries or databases might file or list it under the lasst name of Mai; or the last name of Cuny.