To give answers that she would understand I had to first explain about the society and the beliefs of Deshi’s. I explained that Deshi people saw a woman who was raped as a burden and a shame. Although the woman had no part in it she was a shame. Because the girl refused to murder the life that was to be born from her she was seen as an evil woman. That answered my friend’s question of how. Next she asked how did people kill a full-grown woman by just throwing a few stones. I told her that it was a whole town or village. Again her mouth opened with a question. “Why would people who had nothing to do with the situation punish someone who had done nothing criminal?” For a few blocks we walked in silence. I realized that I had no relevant answer. The only one I thought of was, “To them its like a town activity. Everyone comes out to participate in punishing someone but when someone needs help and is pleading for their life everyone goes into their cozy homes, shuts the windows and doors and pretends that they didn’t hear anything.” Before I could finish my answer she asked, “Well, what happened to the rapist? Why did people of the town waste their time punishing the girl when they could have been looking for the actual person who deserves the punishment? And why don’t people put this rapist behind bars?” Each of her questions made me question the society of Bangladesh and the countries that followed, but just to give her an answer I told her that brave witnesses were almost impossible to find. A person will know the truth and when questioned by the authorities if they had any clue about who was responsible they will deny any knowledge of the event. Then when the woman is to be stoned that same person will take a stone into his hands and throw with all his might.

The questions I was left with was what is wrong with keeping the child? What is wrong with giving life? Why is a woman who has had her pride taken away from her the one to be punished? Why is it so hard to find the witness and when found why do they deny any knowledge of the event? Why should townspeople have the right to punish someone? Why shouldn’t the same townspeople who witnessed the woman’s shrieks be able to punish the woman? Shouldn’t they be the ones punished if they could have prevented it or have pointed out the criminal? Aren’t these questions everyone should think about? Are these the questions that South Asia should work with? In my opinion these questions never should have existed. People need to change something so that I will never start to question my country, beliefs and morals that thousands of Deshi’s are taught and expected to live up to.