This drawing is for Kainat Soomro, a Pakistani girl who was kidnapped and gang raped by four men. She went to the police to report it and they did nothing. Then tribal elders declared her kari, “black female”, for having sex outside of marriage. It is a tradition for the family of kari to kill her. Yes, it is tradition for parents to kill their own daughter “to preserve the honor of the family.” They refused to kill their daughter. They were threatened, and then someone killed their son.
My heart goes out to Kainat and her family. I tried to draw to a large, ugly thing because she is fighting something big and ugly. The flag is supposed to represent everyone who’s on her side, and an ideal country, whose only tradition and law is love.
http://jezebel.com/5844966/pakistani-family-threatened-for-refusing-to-kill-daughter-who-was-raped