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Gurbani (696-703)
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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 47529" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #000080"><strong>A-G calls for fight against 'cancer' of spousal abuse</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><strong>Wally Oppal makes plea during forum on domestic abuse</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080">Kim Bolan</span><span style="color: #000080">Vancouver Sun</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000080">Friday, November 03, 2006</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000080"><img src="http://media.canada.com/canwest/111/vs_news_top_031106_210.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span><span style="color: #000080">CREDIT: Steve Bosch, Vancouver Sun </span><span style="color: #000080">Women in the packed audience listen to first-hand stories of spousal abuse at a forum Thursday night on violence against women in the South Asian community.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000080">One by one, Indo-Canadian women stood up to tell tales of being beaten, slapped and threatened with knives and guns, moving a crowd of more than 2,000 people to tears Thursday night.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000080">The forum was organized by Surrey-based Radio India as an emergency community response to three brutal assaults in the last two weeks that left two women dead and one fighting for her life.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000080">The women signed up to speak as they entered the jammed Surrey banquet hall, launching a forum that was later addressed by politicians and social services representatives.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000080">One woman who said she was the mother of two girls told of being beaten by her husband for years before working up the courage to leave.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000080">"I am a survivor of 11 years of physical, mental and verbal abuse," she said. "I was held at knifepoint. I was held at gunpoint."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000080">She said that as in many extended Indo-Canadian families, she was encouraged to put up with the beatings to save face, but she finally left.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000080">"I am here today in one piece and my daughters are as happy as kids can be," she said. "Save your daughters, save your sisters ... if I can do it, you can do it."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000080">Attorney-General Wally Oppal praised the forum organizers and the women who told their stories.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000080">"It is a horrible cancer that at times seems incurable, but it can be cured," Oppal said. "This is an awakening of our collective conscience."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000080">He said prosecutors want to bring wife batterers to justice but women are still too often afraid to testify.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000080">"We are committed to prosecuting the wrongdoers but we need your help," Oppal said. "We need witnesses."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000080">The incidents that prompted the forum included the Oct. 19 shooting of Gurjeet Kaur Ghuman, who was shot in the face in Port Coquitlam by her estranged husband, who then killed himself. She remains in critical condition.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000080">Four days later, the charred remains of pregnant Surrey teacher Manjit Panghali were found along a truck route near the Delta Port.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000080">This past Sunday, 27-year-old Navreet Kaur Waraich, the mother of a four-month-old, was stabbed to death. Her husband Jatinder has been charged with second-degree murder.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000080">Waraich's grieving cousin Mandip Sandhu said she was touched that so many people turned out in response to Waraich's tragic death.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000080">"We cannot bring her back, but maybe we can save another girl," Sandhu said.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000080">She also urged the federal government to expedite the immigration process so Waraich's parents can come from India and take custody of her son. The baby is now in the care of social services.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000080">Waraich's mom and dad are expected to arrive on visitors' visas this weekend to make funeral preparations for their daughter's service on Nov. 12 at Delta's Riverside funeral home.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000080">"We are sorry to be here but it is because someone is killing our sisters and our daughters," Sandhu said. "That is not acceptable any more. We have to stop it.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000080">"We are just asking for justice."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000080">Another woman who has been married for more than 20 years made an impassioned call for an end to the violence in the community.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000080">She said she has stayed with her husband despite being abused for more than two decades.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000080">"Once he gave me such a good slap, it dislocated my jaw," she said.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000080">She tried to explain why she has stayed, but struggled for words. Even when she called police on several occasions, she tried to take the charges back afterwards.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000080">"Your self-esteem is gone. Your love turns to hate," she said.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000080">The women identified themselves at the meeting, but The Vancouver Sun is withholding their names for legal reasons.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000080">Representatives of several social service agencies told the crowd that help is available for women wanting to escape abuse.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000080">Nimi Chauhan, who works with a new agency called Sahara Services Society, said there should be more coordination between available services so women and children do not fall through the cracks.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000080">"And we need to have more culturally sensitive programs," she said.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000080">kbolan@png.canwest.com</span></p><p><span style="color: #000080">-</span><span style="color: #000080">© The Vancouver Sun 2006</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>----------------------------------------</p><p>----------------------------------------</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>----------------------------------------</p><p>----------------------------------------</p><p></p><p></p><p>----------------------------------------</p><p>----------------------------------------</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 47529, member: 884"] [SIZE=5][COLOR=#000080][B]A-G calls for fight against 'cancer' of spousal abuse[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE] [COLOR=#000080][B]Wally Oppal makes plea during forum on domestic abuse[/B][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]Kim Bolan[/COLOR][COLOR=#000080]Vancouver Sun[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]Friday, November 03, 2006[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][IMG]http://media.canada.com/canwest/111/vs_news_top_031106_210.jpg[/IMG][/COLOR][COLOR=#000080]CREDIT: Steve Bosch, Vancouver Sun [/COLOR][COLOR=#000080]Women in the packed audience listen to first-hand stories of spousal abuse at a forum Thursday night on violence against women in the South Asian community.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]One by one, Indo-Canadian women stood up to tell tales of being beaten, slapped and threatened with knives and guns, moving a crowd of more than 2,000 people to tears Thursday night.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]The forum was organized by Surrey-based Radio India as an emergency community response to three brutal assaults in the last two weeks that left two women dead and one fighting for her life.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]The women signed up to speak as they entered the jammed Surrey banquet hall, launching a forum that was later addressed by politicians and social services representatives.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]One woman who said she was the mother of two girls told of being beaten by her husband for years before working up the courage to leave.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]"I am a survivor of 11 years of physical, mental and verbal abuse," she said. "I was held at knifepoint. I was held at gunpoint."[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]She said that as in many extended Indo-Canadian families, she was encouraged to put up with the beatings to save face, but she finally left.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]"I am here today in one piece and my daughters are as happy as kids can be," she said. "Save your daughters, save your sisters ... if I can do it, you can do it."[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]Attorney-General Wally Oppal praised the forum organizers and the women who told their stories.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]"It is a horrible cancer that at times seems incurable, but it can be cured," Oppal said. "This is an awakening of our collective conscience."[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]He said prosecutors want to bring wife batterers to justice but women are still too often afraid to testify.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]"We are committed to prosecuting the wrongdoers but we need your help," Oppal said. "We need witnesses."[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]The incidents that prompted the forum included the Oct. 19 shooting of Gurjeet Kaur Ghuman, who was shot in the face in Port Coquitlam by her estranged husband, who then killed himself. She remains in critical condition.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]Four days later, the charred remains of pregnant Surrey teacher Manjit Panghali were found along a truck route near the Delta Port.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]This past Sunday, 27-year-old Navreet Kaur Waraich, the mother of a four-month-old, was stabbed to death. Her husband Jatinder has been charged with second-degree murder.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]Waraich's grieving cousin Mandip Sandhu said she was touched that so many people turned out in response to Waraich's tragic death.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]"We cannot bring her back, but maybe we can save another girl," Sandhu said.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]She also urged the federal government to expedite the immigration process so Waraich's parents can come from India and take custody of her son. The baby is now in the care of social services.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]Waraich's mom and dad are expected to arrive on visitors' visas this weekend to make funeral preparations for their daughter's service on Nov. 12 at Delta's Riverside funeral home.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]"We are sorry to be here but it is because someone is killing our sisters and our daughters," Sandhu said. "That is not acceptable any more. We have to stop it.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]"We are just asking for justice."[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]Another woman who has been married for more than 20 years made an impassioned call for an end to the violence in the community.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]She said she has stayed with her husband despite being abused for more than two decades.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]"Once he gave me such a good slap, it dislocated my jaw," she said.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]She tried to explain why she has stayed, but struggled for words. Even when she called police on several occasions, she tried to take the charges back afterwards.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]"Your self-esteem is gone. Your love turns to hate," she said.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]The women identified themselves at the meeting, but The Vancouver Sun is withholding their names for legal reasons.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]Representatives of several social service agencies told the crowd that help is available for women wanting to escape abuse.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]Nimi Chauhan, who works with a new agency called Sahara Services Society, said there should be more coordination between available services so women and children do not fall through the cracks.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]"And we need to have more culturally sensitive programs," she said.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]kbolan@png.canwest.com[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]-[/COLOR][COLOR=#000080]© The Vancouver Sun 2006[/COLOR] ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- [/QUOTE]
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