"If this is honor then beam me up."
by Simon Denyer
Five armed men burst into the small room and courtyard at dawn, just as 21-year-old, 22-week pregnant, Sunita was drying her face on a towel.
They punched and kicked her stomach as she called out for her sleeping boyfriend "Jassa", 22-year-old Jasbir Singh, witnesses said. When he woke, both were dragged into waiting cars, driven away and strangled.
A week later, the village of Balla, just a couple of hours drive from India's capital New Delhi, stood united behind the act, proud, defiant almost to a man.
"We are not ashamed of it, absolutely not, we have the honor of doing the village proud," he said.
"We would not have had a face to show if we had not done this. It was the act of 'real men'."
Read the whole story here: Reuters: Honor
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