[India] - Thousands of Women Brides Being Burnt Alive Every Year

[UltimaOnline]

*MANY THOUSANDS* of helpless women brides (both Hindu and Muslim) are being *BURNT ALIVE* or tortured to suicide, *EVERY YEAR* in India, by their husbands no less! The atrocity of it all.

BBC News on "Dowry Deaths"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/3071963.stm

Wikipedia on "Dowry Deaths" :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowry_death