Women burned alive for the warning
There are concrete facts that but time and again, because nobody should be left to tell. Since Wanda Taddei burned died after being sprayed with alcohol by her boyfriend Eduardo Vázquez, they determined the skills, dozens of similar incidents were repeated throughout the length and breadth of Argentina.
In recent weeks, as gloomy sinister ritual celebration of the anniversary, there were several similar incidents.
means, of course, required to quickly view who are always willing to think out loud, as an attempt to trigger some kind of collective thinking. Not always possible, and sometimes demand of the media is impossible to satisfy since it involves clear definitions and is not always possible to reach them.
Caution should be the norm, but how are you in situations where the temptation of interpreting or superfluous can quickly dilute the ultimate goal is to put white on black the presence of these horrendous crimes on which society seems to want responsibility ajenizarse.
can say:
That we are in the presence of femicide.
finished That is an expression of male violence against women.
That in most cases had a history of violence towards women.
That almost all had been threatened with being burned alive.
That all crimes were preventable.
That the method chosen involves premeditation and malice.
That, therefore, the facts are far from being framed in emotional violence or crimes of passion.
That there are victims and victimizers.
Once this is clear we further explanation or attempt to make some differences with what he heard and read.
It has been argued here that this is a new form of femicide, which is becoming a case of the Catholic Inquisition which burned women alive, and this seems to be the way that the West favors to kill women.
Before one fact: it has been reported in these days in a year were killed 260 women and girls, eleven of whom were burned alive. Ie, 249 murderers chose another form of femicide, which does not invalidate the question of the care centers for victims of male violence is heard more and more the story of these threats, which also met more frequently.
say that this is not a new form of femicide or we witness a return to old times because that would deny that the Inquisition until today many women have died in this way, although the society to strive put things in a manner "that looks like an accident." What is new is that today we are with hardworking women smokers who are bent on cleaning up the CDS with alcohol in the middle of discussions with their partners. To say that this is not new is not to deny that this is happening today here and now and what government and society must stand facing the problem implementing executive policies, legislative and judicial background esperance solutions.
not seem to be the unique drama of the West. It seems that all societies and cultures generated by these forms of killing women. A study recently transpired Pakistani realized that in that country 33 women were burned with acid and 45 set on fire, in the course of 2007. Most spurned suitor by members of his family or for refusing to wear burka or go out without with a man. The same study reports that something similar is happening in Kashmir and Afghanistan.
The newspaper El Pais published on similar killings in Kenya ... and follow the titles.
Why say that there is malice aforethought in the use of the method? It should provide alcohol have about the form of spray to reach women and that has a lighter or matches.
deeply violent man hates women's autonomy, especially in the emotional and sexual, and acts accordingly. Want to kill, take warning or mark, but the truth is that from the moment he says that women want to own itself begins plotting revenge on the offense to stop being the owner.
The example of Eduardo Vazquez spreads for its effectiveness, because the victim terrified at the thought of burning his body and because it is assumed that if brands do not die your property will remain forever in the body. Is not a fad, this method is chosen for its effectiveness and efficiency. Because it is the kind of warning.
In the amplification of the word machismo woman responds with more cruelty and suffering, conscious what will be achieved. So choose, and that the choice of method is central, and not fire anyone but a woman who has given up more of your property and threatens to love other men.
These facts have social impact, although limited, when the media decide to center on them and show seguidillas, as in recent days, but are far from generating intense debate as the "insecurity" or "eligibility of the youth." After all, while the action of offenders affects each and every one the femicide occurring in the private sphere, and the fire generates a smoke screen home, always suspicious of an accident, suicide, or, in any case, joint liability, because "every family is a world", who knows what happened inside, though there are so many evidences.
Jorge Garaventa *
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