In Iraq’s second largest city, Basra, a stronghold of conservative Shia groups, as many as 133 women were killed last year for violating “Islamic teachings” and in so-called “honor killings,” according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The methods are brutal evidence of a backlash by previously subdued tribal forces that have been unleashed by the occupation: women strangled and beheaded, and their hands, arms and legs chopped off.
伊拉克第二大城市巴士拉是保守派什叶派团体的据点。根据联合国人道主义事务协调办公室的报告，去年在那里有133名妇女由于违反“伊斯兰教义”和在所谓的“荣誉杀生”中被杀害。杀害手段残忍无比，表明了原先被镇压的部落力量由于占领而东山再起。妇女们被绞死或者砍头，她们的手、胳膊以及腿被剁掉。