Testimony 20 out of 225 in the murder case Narges Achikzei
Citizen
A number of problems are ethnically defined but are not related to economic motives: honour killings and marriages, for example. These are backward culture-bound habits. However bad a Dutch person is financially, he will not force his daughter to marry a cousin by force. Or to burn his niece because she wants to marry a boy who has just followed another school of faith.
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