Acid attacks shut off victims from the rest of the world
October 1, 2008 No Comments
In her adolescent days Mariam had a dream of life in a mud-walled hut with a caring husband and a family of her own in a quiet village surrounded by green rice terraces in the heartland of Bangladesh.
But Mariam’s dream was shattered when her husband threw acid at her as “punishment” because her parents were unable to pay her marriage dowry.
The acid attack, which happened six months ago, left her face and body disfigured.
As she writhed in unbearable pain, her husband Zameer (not his real name) fled their home before the neighbours and the police arrived on the scene.
Mariam (not her real name) was admitted to the burn ward of the state-run Medical College Hospital in the capital Dhaka where attending
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