The sorrow of Amandeep by Michelle Mandel (Toronto Sun)
"Conflicts over dowries are such a serious problem in India that the crime of 'dowry death' was created in 1986 just to deal with the suspicious deaths of women within the first seven years of their marriage. Newly married brides are often subjected to vicious demands from their husbands and in-laws for additional money or gifts after the wedding and the abuse becomes so intolerable that some women choose suicide while others are eventually murdered for not complying with their new family's demands.
"According to India's National Crime Bureau, an estimated 6,000 to 7,000 women die annually in dowry deaths. Few of the perpetrators are ever brought to justice, and the grooms' families go on to secure new dowries as the sons marry again."
Its not only her father in law involved in this. Its all his husbands fault who let her down and allowed his father to kill her. Our community is full of such people who send their daughters like this to Canada. Lets get together and try to put some efforts to make our people in punjab awar about all this. If Amandeep's parents have spent one thrid of the money on her education rather than spending that money on dowry, may be they could have their daughter laughing and enjoying live in front of them. Still its not too late.. lets get together and make people awar about this.
Posted by: Aman | April 21, 2009 at 02:06 PM
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Posted by: Ewikiinfo | October 20, 2009 at 06:17 PM