Bride's death on the wedding night, bride 8 groom 40

The lesser the age of the bride, the girl's father will get the more money. This strange practice is common in the Middle East country Yemen. And do not want to miss the current 'lucrative' opportunity, many poor young people of Yemen Like the mother of the eight-year-old son of Ravan in northwestern Yemen, Ravan's father Mameed Ali also said. For some money, the girl gets married to a person of a large village at a very young age. The bride, who was married to Rawan, was 40 years old.


The UK newspaper The Independent reported on Thursday that this incident occurred on January 7, 2014 in village Hrd village, border in Saudi Arabia. On that day, Rauwan was forced to marry the 40-year-old man. Little Ravan had fallen asleep in the ceremony of marriage. Then, after passing the groom's lap, the father-in-law went home. It would not have been understandable that she would be sleeping on that day, unfortunate little girl's father The next day, the news was revealed on the night of marriage that the child Rawan died.

On the day after receiving the news of the death of Rauwan, Father Mamed Ali conducted the post mortem examination. It is known that the child died due to 'internal bleeding' due to "rape" on the wedding night.


Soon after the death of Rauwan, the matter did not come very much to the media. The incident comes to light after the start of the Saudi Arabian air strike in Yemen on March 26 last year. At that time Reuters journalist Paul Allan Rattan went to the province and published a report about this unfortunate child marriage.

And after publishing this report everyone can know about this unfortunate incident. Then, as usual, there was a strong condemnation of social media. Everyone was demanding that Rauwan's parents and the 40-year-old Barkak be arrested. In order to stop the abusive customs such as child marriage in the area.

But until the writing of social media, fertilizer. This protest has started again and again. The job has not worked. Recently, the reporter of the Independent went to the village of Harad, and the poor families are still running the tradition of childhood. This tradition is among the most common among the Yemen tribes living in the Saudi border. They believe that the more young the wife is, the more forceful it is. And the longer the child can afford.

According to the Independence Report, Yemen's law does not specify any age for the marriage of girls. Parents can marry their daughter if they decide. And so, despite many attempts by private service providers, child marriage is not being stopped even in the country. And girls like Rowan are being victimized by the state's 'wrong policies'.