While performing a search for an LRP-related word I came across this story. If ind it impossible to have either compassion or respect for the sort of community that would condone such things.
I'll trot out the apocryphal quote from the era of the British Raj. An army unit encountered a 'suttee ceremony, despite it being banned by the laws of the Empire.
"But Sahib, it is our tradition to burn a widow on her husbands pyre..." "That is as may be, but it is our tradition to hang those who murder women, sargeant... take him away"
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"But Sahib, it is our tradition to burn a widow on her husbands pyre..."
"That is as may be, but it is our tradition to hang those who murder women, sargeant... take him away"