This is going to hurt like hell

I was talking to a friend last week, who's super news-savvy, but who hadn't heard of the recent acid attack on school-bound girls in Afghanistan. (I'm not sure how to tag this post, exactly, but please consider yourself warned before you read this article - the photo and the text are disturbing.)

After the divorce was final, Mr. Jamsheed came to say goodbye to the children, and then pulled out a bottle and poured acid on his wife’s face, according to her account and that of their son. (...) Bangladesh has imposed controls on acid sales to curb such attacks, but otherwise it is fairly easy in Asia to walk into a shop and buy sulfuric or hydrochloric acid suitable for destroying a human face.

Since 1994, Ms. Bukhari has documented 7,800 cases of women who were deliberately burned, scalded or subjected to acid attacks, just in the Islamabad area. In only 2 percent of those cases was anyone convicted.

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