Is the Honour really left??

Just read the following news, leaving me disheartened:

"Family tortures, kills daughter & lover:
Dwaipayan Ghosh, TNN, Jun 15, 2010, 12.40am IST

NEW DELHI: In a brazen and brutal case of honour killing right in the capital, a 19-year-old girl and her 21-year-old lover were tortured for hours by the girl’s family and then put to death by electrocution and flogging with steel rods in the wee hours of Monday. Neither intervention by neighbours nor pleas for mercy by the girl — which could be heard by residents in northwest Delhi for four hours — prevented the gory murders.

"The girl’s family accosted the duo around 11.30 pm on Sunday, Delhi. We heard her screams coming from her uncle’s house till 3 am. She kept pleading for the boy’s life but her parents and relatives did not relent," said a neighbour.

Police said the family had suspected that the victim, was planning to elope with her lover, who was from another caste and did not have the same ‘status’ as them."

The above is seen as another case of honour killing...honour killings have been part of our society for way too long now...Earlier witnessed only amongst the smaller town, a no. of cases are now witnessed amongst the educated masses also living in bigger cities and even in metros. A case of an honour killing always leaves an impact on me and leaves me a feeling of numbness and sadness. The deaths given by family members in the name of saving the honour are ruthless and merciless...does that really leave a family with an honour then??

Some incidents never have any justification...the post just in dedication to all the people who have become prey to such honour killings...and to all the families to be a bit more God fearing before surrendering to such acts. Life and death is only in the hands of GOD and Nature...and we must not try and play with the rules of nature for our own good!

God bless them and give the the strength to live peacefully with the guilt of killing their own daughter or son for no reason!!

nikita