"My life will always be in danger. My beautiful sister Banaz Mahmod
was murdered in an 'honour killing' ordered by our father and
uncle. If those evil men find me, they will kill me too." Bekhal
Mahmod was one of six siblings from a Sunni Muslim family in Iraqi
Kurdistan who sought a new life as asylum seekers and arrived in
London in 1998. When Bekhal's father tried to force her into an
arranged marriage at 15, she ran away. This caused her father to
'lose respect' within the Kurdish community and Bekhal became the
target of an honour killing and her younger sisters Banaz and
Payzee were quickly married off to restore the family's reputation.
When Banaz left her husband, claiming he'd beaten and raped her,
Mahmod decided this 'shame' to the family meant Banaz must die.
Within weeks, she had vanished. Her body was finally discovered,
crammed into a suitcase and buried in a garden in Birmingham.
Banaz, age 20, had been raped and killed in a sickening plot
orchestrated by her father and uncle. Still fearing for her own
life, Bekhal bravely faced her father and uncle in court - making
her the first female in British legal history to give evidence
against family members in an honour killing trial - and won justice
for her beloved sister Banaz. Bekhal now has a new identity after
entering the police witness protection programme. She lives in
terror of her father's release from jail. This is her story.
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