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Old June 30th 11, 04:44 PM
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There is something seriously wrong with any ethnic community that
suffers so many cultural pressures that its women consider suicide -
aka jumping in front of a high speed train - as being the best way
out. This area of Southall is well known not only for such suicides
but also for so-called honour killings of women aka murder by their
usually male relatives.

It appears that the leaders of the various ethnic communities are not
doing much to change cultural tenets to aviod these incidents, and
neither are the Social Services. When women stop being abused in
arranged marriages, and when 'honour' killings are outlawed by those
communities then maybe, just maybe, these suicides will stop.SB
I know nothing about this series of suicides at Southall. Is it quite definite that the vast majority involve Asian women?

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