Sri Lankan woman
Your report on hammering heated nails on the body of a 49 year old Sri Lankan woman by her Saudi employer on August 29, 2010 is heart breaking. I wonder how a person in this age could have done such a thing. Probably the tortures inflicted upon her has surpassed the gruesome cruel stories we hear about the notorious prisons.
The mere act of piercing the skin for the purpose of inoculation is itself painful. If this mere act of inoculation is painful, then imagine how painful it was for her to be pierced with 24 heated nails. I strongly condemn such acts of violence.
The poor woman went to Saudi Arabia in search of a livelihood, had she been well off, she would have never gone there to receive such cruel torture. There are many a poor woman working abroad for a livelihood, who knows what treatment those poor women are receiving. Similar incidences of torture are also reported locally from time to time, strong and deterrent punishment is necessary to ward off such evils from society.
In this case of the reported incident, the Sri Lankan government should take up the issue with the international court of justice and ensure that the culprit is brought to book and pay for the damage done to her and set an exemplary punishment so that no one in future dares to do such a thing.
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