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--- In [email protected], "Sunny" <ambon@...> wrote: > > http://www.smh.com.au/world/i-am-happy-and-my-conscience-is-clear-father-accused-of-honour-killings-says-he-would-do-the-same-again-court-hears-20111116-1nhtz.html > 'I am happy and my conscience is clear': father accused of honour killings > says he would do the same again, court hears > November 16, 2011 > > Killed ... Sahar Shafia. > > A father accused of the "honour killings" of four family members - including > his three teenage daughters - was recorded on police wiretaps saying he was > "happy" they were dead and that he would "do the same again", a Canadian > court has heard. > > Mohammad Shafia, 58, his second wife Tooba Mahommad Yahya, 41, and their son > Hamed, 20, are on trial for the first-degree murder of Zainab Shafia, 19, > Sahar Shafia, 17, Geeti Shafia, 13, and his first wife Rona Amir Mohammad, > 50, in 2009. > > Prosecutors told the Ontario court their deaths were "honour killings" > committed to remove the perceived shame the women brought on their family, > such as by having boyfriends. > > Advertisement: Story continues below > > Zainab Shafia ... dead at 19. > > They were arrested after a car was discovered submerged in a canal lock near > Kingston in June 2009, with the bodies of the four family members in it. A > post-mortem examination indicated they died of drowning. > > The Shafia family had lived in Australia, Pakistan and Dubai before moving to > Ontario in 2007. > > 'Do the same again' > > > Dead ... Geeti Shafia. > > "I say to myself, 'You did well.' Would they come back to life a hundred > times for you to do the same again?" Mohammad Shafia was recorded as saying > to Yahya after she appeared to express some remorse about the deaths of the > two younger girls a few days after they drowned. > > "No, Tooba, they were treacherous," he said, the Vancouver Sun reported. > > "They were treacherous. They betrayed both themselves and us. Like this woman > standing on the side of the road and if you stop the car, she would go with > you anywhere. ... They're gone now; shit on their graves." > > > First wife ... Rona Amir Mohammad. > > He added the next day: "I am happy and my conscience is clear. ... They > haven't done good and God punished them," the Montreal Gazette reported. > > In other recordings, Mohammad Shafia told Yahya and Hamed to remain strong > and that "there is nothing more valuable than our honour", the Gazette said. > > "I am telling your mother that be like a man as you have always been. I know > it hurts ⦠don't worry at all, don't regret," he said, adding, "there is no > value of life without honour". > > > Accused ... Mohammad Shafia, left, with his son Hamed, in the dark blue > shirt, and Mohammed Shafia's second wife Tooba Mahommad Yahya. Photo: AP > > The court heard that Mohammad Shafia married Yahya as Rona Amir Mohammad was > unable to bear children. The trio lived in a polygamous relationship, The > Canadian Press reported. > > The court also heard the eldest daughter, Zainab, had run away from home for > a few weeks and the two other girls contacted officials appealing to be > removed from their home because of domestic violence. > > Face life in prison > > If convicted, the trio face a maximum sentence of life in prison. > > There have been 13 such killings in Canada since 2002, said Amin Muhammed, a > psychiatry professor at Memorial University in Saint John's, Newfoundland. > > On the morning of the deaths, a car was found underwater at the upper lock at > Kingston Mills with the four bodies inside. > > The accused immediately went to police to report them missing and said the > family stopped at a Kingston motel late at night to rest on their way home to > Montreal from a vacation in Niagara Falls. > > Shafia told authorities his eldest daughter Zainab must have taken the car > without his permission and crashed it into the canal, but an investigation > would later reveal he told witnesses he planned to kill her. > > Prosecutors said that, according to mobile phone records, Hamed appeared to > scope out the Kingston area days before the family arrived. > > They also say he researched bodies of water in the Montreal, Ottawa and > Kingston areas in the days leading up to the deaths. > > The youngest was killed for wearing revealing attire, despite having warned > school officials and police of abuse in the home, prosecutor Laurie Lacelle > told the court. > > The trial, which started late last month, was expected to last up to three > months, with dozens of witnesses scheduled to be called. > > smh.com.au and AFP > > > Read more: > http://www.smh.com.au/world/i-am-happy-and-my-conscience-is-clear-father-accused-of-honour-killings-says-he-would-do-the-same-again-court-hears-20111116-1nhtz.html#ixzz1e0Hca6Kf > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! 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