An essay on acid attack victims in english
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Having your face disfigured and burned in a matter of seconds is not what any woman has in mind as a consequence when they refuse to go on a date with a man. Sadly, this form of violence or “Acid Throwing” is happening in the gender-stratified or “Caste” system countries. The intent of this essay is to inform the reader what acid throwing is; how and why it happens and provide several facts about this crime. Hopefully, one of these organizations will assist these women who have been victimized, and hopefully they can lead a normal life.
This is a horrific act occurring overseas in countries such as: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan. Nitric, hydrochloric, or sulfuric acids are thrown into someone’s face and it causes…show more content…
The victims’ ages range from under ten to approximately thirty. It happening to very young girls that are just maturing. Most of the victims are young. According to newspaper reports in Bangladesh, in the nine-month period following April 1998, of 174 victims of acid attacks ten were girls under ten years of age, 79 were young women between 11-20 years of age, and 20 were women between 20-30 years of age. Other members of the family and bystanders have also been harmed when they were in the vicinity of the intended victim during an attack (2). Criminologist Casey Jordan mentions "it's usually a way of controlling women, especially women who have spurned advances. It's a way of men exerting control and putting women in their place by harming their beauty” (10). Forlornly, this is because of the gender violence and social status that we’ve learned tremendously about already. Kirk tells us gender violence is “any act of gender-based violence that results in or is likely to result in, physical violence, or psychological harm or suffering to women…” (9). And these attacks are definitely a part of the gender violence that is happening too often to numerous women because the men think the women are “below” them.
So it have to be prevent