really sucks to be born a woman in that age, really sucks now to be born a woman in this age in india

Kuroneko wrote:Certainly prevalent in Medieval England: Domestic Violence—Medieval and Modern Am J Public Health. 2002 December; 92(12): 1908.

This problem is not a novelty of the modern world; its roots go back to the very foundations of so-called civil society,although the expression and extent of violence
varies across periods and cultures. In medieval Europe, for example, husbands had the right to “chastise”—that is, physically discipline—their wives, servants, and apprentices. http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pd ... 92.12.1908

Who report on violence and health 2002 http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/1066 ... 15_eng.pdf

Colonel Roosevelt's view on wife beating

Cheap Gin to quell the industrial masses and make a nice bit of profit too. Alcohol, the home version of the Opium wars, Bloody capitalists.

It would be informative to hear what our Khmer colleagues think about this topic-especially the women.

A meeting on gender-based violence found that acts of domestic violence are becoming increasingly sadistic:

Domestic violence cases in Cambodia are increasing in cruelty and setting a bad example for the young generation, a meeting was told yesterday.

Despite the number of reported cases remaining much the same as the year before, the sadistic nature of the violence was getting worse, according to the minister for women’s affairs.

Minister Ing Kantha Phavi told the 14th meeting of the Technical Working Group on Gender-Based Violence that the rate of domestic abuse in the Kingdom remained unchanged, however the nature of cases were becoming more sadistic, thanks to greater access to drugs and alcohol...

http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26854/ ... ing-worse/
Just as a general trend, most cases of domestic violence reported seem to involve alcohol or drugs, but also a lot mental problems.

This remark is just spine-chilling :

Ros Sopheap, the executive director of NGO Gender and Development for Cambodia, said she was concerned about the rising cases of extreme sadism in domestic abuse, with many of the instigators never facing legal consequences. “We are worried that the cases of violence are very bad and crueler than there were previously,” she said. “For example before, a suspect would rape and kill a victim and then leave, but now they rape and kill by beheading or cutting the victim’s hands or legs,” she said.

It's not just Cambodians who are beating women. Seems obvious but it bears saying:

Nigerian Jailed for Beating Girlfriend
A Nigerian businessman was sentenced to two years in prison by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday for beating his girlfriend and threatening to stab her after she refused to have sex with him last year, according to court officials.

However, Kingsley Nshiodo, 34, will have half his sentence shaved off, according to judge Yen Saroeun, but will be fined about $1,000 to the state budget after being charged with an act of violence with aggravating circumstances under article of 218 of the Penal Code.

“The court convicted him to two years, but the term of his punishment is reduced to a year. The rest of his sentence was suspended,” he said.
“The court fines him 4 million riel [about $1,000] to put toward the state budget.”

District penal police officer Ly Rithy said Mr. Nshiodo was arrested by police in the early hours of December 28 last year in Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district after his girlfriend, 19-year-old waitress Chan Sreyneang, contacted police complaining he had beaten and threatened to stab her.
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26892/ ... irlfriend/