For the Family Honor, Parents Killed their Daughter

Ottawa - It's cruel. A family consisting of father, mother and son can kill three members of their families as well as one other person. Canadian Afghan family of origin is that heinous murder for the sake of family honor.
Currently, cases that could make this scene a Canadian citizen, has entered the final stage of the trial in a court in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The father named Mohammad Shafia (58) along with his second wife, Tooba Mohammad Yahya (42) and their eldest son, Hamed Mohammad Shafia (21), was convicted of first degree murder charges against four victims.

The victim is the third daughter of Shafia and a woman who is known as Shafia's first wife, who embraced polygamy. The third daughter was Zainab Shafia (19), Sahar (17) and Geeti (13). While his first wife named Rona Amir Mohammad (52).
The bodies of three daughters Shafia and his first wife was found in a car submerged in a canal sluice in 2009 ago. Shafia and his family allegedly deliberately drowned the car.
"It's hard to imagine a more heinous crime, more frightening. The obvious reason behind this cold-blooded murder, is a shameful murder in which four innocent victims who have become victims of the concept of honor you are upside down," said Judge Robert Maranger as reported by Reuters and quoted by The Star, Monday (01/30/2012).
In the trial that runs for 3 months, the court held that the three daughters bickering Shafia involved with his father's conservative in some things. One of his daughter Shafia known to have been dating a man of Pakistani-Canadian, and then run away from home, while his other daughter expelled from school for dressing too open.
The things that make Shafia angry and then take action on the behavior of her three daughters. In recorded conversations that the evidence at trial, Shafia even once called his daughters as prostitutes.
All three defendants denied the allegations that prosecutors dijeratkan. Their lawyer even called the deaths of four victims of an accident. But the judge Maranger stated, that there is sufficient evidence to show all three guilty.
"Planned and deliberate murder of four members of your family," he said.
For doing so, the trio could have faced life in prison. As we all know, Canada does not impose the death penalty in its legal system.

Source: Detik.com