Acid throwing
Acid throwing or vitriolage is a form of violent assault.[1] The attackers throw acid at their victims. Usually they throw it at their faces. They want to damage skin tissue, even to expose and to dissolve the bones.[2] The consequences of these attacks include blindness and permanent scars of the face and body.
In India, the number of acid attacks have been rising.[3] There had been 68 acid attacks in Karnataka alone (of which Bangalore is the capital) since 1999. These are only the cases that have been reported.[4] Unlike India, Bangladesh has introduced the death penalty for throwing acid and laws strictly controlling the sales of acids since 2002.[5] An important role for the introduction of that legislation had the Acid Survivors Foundation.
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References [change]
- ↑ Karmakar, R.N. (2003). Forensic Medicine and Toxicology. Academic Publishers. ISBN 8187504692.
- ↑ Swanson, Jordan (Spring 2002), "Acid attacks: Bangladesh’s efforts to stop the violence.", Harvard Health Policy Review 3 (Spring 2002): 3, http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~epihc/currentissue/spring2002/swanson.php, retrieved 2008-06-18
- ↑ India's acid victims demand justice, BBC News, 9 April 2008
- ↑ Acid test for Indian society, The Guardian, July 29th 2008
- ↑ Roland Buerk (28 July 2006). "Bangladesh's acid attack problem". BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/world/south_asia/5133410.stm. Retrieved 2008-06-14.
Further reading [change]
- Dasgupta, Shamita Das (2008), "Acid Attacks", in Renzetti, Claire M.; Edleson, Jeffrey L., Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence, 1 (1st ed.), Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, pp. 5–6, ISBN 978-1-4129-1800-8
Other websites [change]
- Bangladesh: Acid Attacks in Bangladesh: A Voice for the Victims
- Cambodia: Living in the Shadows: Acid Attacks in Cambodia Report
- China: Hospital offers surgery to victim of acid attack
- South Asia: Acid attacks on the rise in South Asia
- Pakistan: A 16 year old boy was badly injured in an acid attack after he refused a Muslim cleric's sexual advances
- Thailand: 6 teens hurt in acid attack
- Iran: Woman blinded by acid wants same fate for attacker
