Honor killers

Some people shall agree a hundred percent with me that those who go on a killing spree in search of some honor in that are more of psychos than criminals. The problem lies within our family system; the very system in which we find pride and consider ourselves a 'superior breed' in the world community.

Consider this scenario: More than 90% of the so-called 'honor killings' in the last one decade are done by the kin of the girls who got involved in love mariages and not those of the boy. Let us consider the latest triple murder of Kuldeep, Monica and Shobha. This gruesome murder is also performed by girls relatives as usual and particularly the girl's young brother and his friends. This gives weight to my theory. In our family models, right from childhood, a younger brother is taught to 'father' his sisters, even the elder ones; so much so that even if he is living off on sister's earning, he tends to bully and dictate her in her everyday life. He boasts of being protective of his sister in return of her 'Rakhi' and finds pride in it, though he is not even aware of the line between being 'protective' and being 'intrusive'! The silence and tolerance of sisters in this regard only adds to the problem for themselves as well as for the other girls. In this triple murder case, Monica's brother Ankit, even when his sister was married for ages and living happily with her husband in her own home, this boy was continuously threatening them with consequences, just because they got married against 'his' wishes!

What more can you say other than that the boy needed a psychologist or even a psychiatrist very badly. The time has come that our system, particularly the police has to consider implementing this procedure seriously. Ordinary people also should not take such incidents lightly. God knows what happened and how this boy's threats were taken lightly, maybe it was a sister's idiotic love as usual for her 'criminal minded' brother, but the end result was tragic as it happens invariably.