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The Acid Attack Survivors
The Acid-Survivors Foundation Hospital offers medical care and assistance to acid-attack victims in Bangladesh. Acid-attacks are frequently used as a punishment for women in the more rural and less well developed parts of Bangladesh. Some women are punished for turning down a marriage proposal, others have been subjected to acid-attacks over land-disputes, which are often fought out between men but that are ultimately played out on women. The hospital offers plastic surgery to cover facial mutilation caused by acid-attacks. Often it takes over 16 rounds of surgery to fully restore a woman's face. Today, 10 percent of the acid-offenses are solved and more and more offenders are being prosecuted for their crimes. This number is remarkably high for Bangladesh where rapists, for instance, are almost never convicted.
Story and pictures by Rokus van den Bout, Straat, the Netherlands, © Street News Service: www.street-papers.org. [Pictures are available in high resolution, please email sns@street-papers.org]
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