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POLICE HAVE ARRESTED a man in rural Nepal after he allegedly killed his 22-year-old pregnant wife by stuffing her into a hay bale and setting it alight, an officer said on Tuesday.
“We received a call from the husband that the woman had gone missing, but when our officers arrived on the scene they saw the body and were suspicious,” Niraj Jha, superintendent of police in Morang district.
He said that the man was arrested on suspicion of murder and would be presented in a local court later today.
The woman, Maina Bardewa Bhitrikoti, who was four-months pregnant, suffered burns on more than 50 per cent of her body in the alleged murder in the early hours of Monday.
Her mother told The Himalayan Times, a local daily, that she had planned to visit her daughter on the same day to discuss her recent complaints of “domestic issues”.
The couple had been married for about two years and the husband, Prithvi, had returned from a stint working in Qatar eight months ago.
Violence against women has garnered increased public attention in Nepal in the wake of protests in India catalysed by the brutal gang-rape and death of a female student in New Delhi.
“These cases of violence are not new,” Lily Thapa, a veteran Nepalese women’s rights activist.
“It’s just we’re hearing about them now because women’s groups have been empowered to report violence these days, it has always been around and it must be stopped,” she said.
A protest demanding justice for gender-based violence survivors and an end to impunity has been staged continuously for the past 103 days outside the Kathmandu residence of the prime minister.
That headline hurts my head
@MRhino82: pretty sad alright. Time for AI me thinks
@MRhino82: it’s ASUFUTIMAEHAEHFUTBW.
Anyone that thinks this man is running American, I have some magic beens to sell you.
Blinken was sent to Beijing in order to try and halt the slide in relations between the two countries . To the amazement of me and many others he appeared to pull it off . Then his boss President Biden completely wrecks everything 48 hours later . The question is did Biden do this because he isn’t Compus Mentis or was it deliberate , and part of the power struggle between different Neoliberal factions in Washington ?
@Des Hanrahan: Biden has done something similar to this before (although I can’t remember the specifics – it might have been Saudi Arabia, Iran, Russia – I can’t remember now) shortly after Blinken met with a foreign government. That time it appeared to be a co-ordinated and deliberate strategy. This time I don’t know. It could be a repeat of the previous strategy, or it could be a random or solo run by Biden without consultation with Blinkin or his administration. We don’t know.
Tip to author sent. Proof read. Twice.
If Biden meets Xi, it is pretty certain they won’t have a joint press conference afterwards.
Biden is too slow witted for that!
Agent Biden is great.
Biden and Pelosi seem determined to undo any good relations between China and US. Inept in the extreme as they know as well as anybody else that relations have to be maintained for both countries sakes
@alan: soooooo your plan is to let China take full control of the south China seas at the expense of the other 7 nations and ignore an agreement with Taiwan. China is only a few steps behind Russia. Maybe if China wasn’t threatening anyone, then the US would not have to stand up to the bully..
@Paul Furey: what possible benefits do bidens and Pelosi’s actions and statements have? Don’t they seem at odds with blinken’s trip
@Paul Furey: I really admire the way you are challenging yourself and are willing to see more than just your own spoon fed perspective. Well done Paul, you will become a better, more rounded person.
surely sleepy cannot beat the Don again, tragic figure Biden is.
Great that Hunter Biden’s Laptop scandal is now all delt with.. No federal charge for unlawfully owning an unlicensed firearm and no mention of the 5 million paud to Joe & Hunter from Ukraine ‘business interests’
afp.. commande in chief.. afp.. this man gettin free pass jaysus..
I see the lying treacherous sex fiend orange things lackeys are out in force trying to dish president Joe at any opportunity. Sados
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