Honour on Trial: The Shafia Murders and the Culture of Honour Killings

Canadian troops have been deployed to Afghanistan in 2001 after the Sept. 11 assaults at the U. S. , their strive against function drawing to an in depth in 2012. Shafia thrived through the Soviet invasion of 1979 via to their withdrawal in 1989. In 1992, in spite of the fact that, his company was once interrupted whilst the mujahideen captured Kabul and Afghanistan erupted into civil conflict. The Shafias, with teenagers, Zainab and Hamed, fled east to Pakistan, atmosphere off a sequence of strikes that may take them to Dubai, Australia and, ultimately, Canada in 2007. Shafia regularly supplied for his relations, making enterprise contacts in Japan and China. In Canada, he persisted to be industrious and winning. Shafia's interview with Dempster published extra insights into kinfolk existence. He acknowledged Zainab was once engaged to be married. "It used to be now not finalized," he informed the officer throughout the translator. "But we adore the relationship and he or she cherished it. " Then the questions went again to the holiday. Ten of them travelled to Niagara Falls — seven kids and 3 adults — and so they have been in autos. It used to be additionally tested that he, Hamed, and Tooba have been the one authorized drivers within the kinfolk. Shafia made some extent of telling Dempster that Zainab and his different son additionally knew the best way to force, "but they do not have the licence. " This little bit of details, likely out of context on the time, may turn into one other serious piece of court docket proof. Dempster desired to know the way they got here to be in Kingston. Mohammad gave an account of the journey from Niagara Falls that began overdue within the night, a detour to determine downtown Toronto and the CN Tower, again to road 401, and a cease at a McDonald's eating place. He went into lengthy causes in regards to the smallest info. At Kingston, Shafia acknowledged, Tooba acquired drained and so they determined to discover a lodge. He paid $103 for every room. The 4 ladies later came across lifeless within the motor vehicle checked into room 18. Then Hamed went to Montreal. "Last evening? " Dempster requested. Shafia spoke back vaguely that Hamed had paintings to do in Montreal, to "check the construction or anything. " Later within the day, Kingston Police might obtain a few startling details. Early that morning, previous to the automobile were stumbled on within the water, Hamed had said an coincidence regarding the family's Lexus SUV — now not in Kingston, yet in Montreal. round midday, the 3 Shafias, together with Hamed, had come to the Kingston station in a Pontiac Montana minivan. With the Nissan stumbled on on the backside of the Rideau Canal that morning, what percentage automobiles had the Shafias taken on their journey? And what had Hamed been doing in Montreal whilst the kinfolk had arrived in Kingston so past due the former evening? Police now had extra questions than solutions in an more and more complex case. Dempster desired to comprehend who stayed within which room on the Kingston lodge. Shafia stated the ladies who died have been in room 18, bearing on them as "the those who are now not now,"? as though that they had been apparitions and never his personal attractive daughters who had lately been so lively. Dempster pressed Shafia on Hamed's late-night day trip.