Yay for lions

Sauron · #1 06-21-2005, 10:19 PM

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_i...1936222132B231

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By Anthony Mitchell

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Police say three lions rescued a 12-year-old girl kidnapped by men who wanted to force her into marriage, chasing off her abductors and guarding her until police and relatives tracked her down in a remote corner of Ethiopia.

The men had held the girl for seven days, repeatedly beating her, before the lions chased them away and guarded her for half a day before her family and police found her, Sergeant Wondimu Wedajo said Tuesday by telephone from the provincial capital of Bita Genet, about 560km west of the capital, Addis Ababa.

"They stood guard until we found her and then they just left her like a gift and went back into the forest," Wondimu said, adding he did not know whether the lions were male or female.

viscousmemories · #2 06-21-2005, 10:23 PM

Cool lions, crazy country.

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In Ethiopia, kidnapping has long been part of the marriage custom, a tradition of sorrow and violence whose origins are murky.

The United Nations estimates that more than 70 percent of marriages in Ethiopia are by abduction, practiced in rural areas where the majority of the country's 71 million people live.

JoeP · #3 06-21-2005, 10:28 PM

Wow.

Crumb · #4 06-21-2005, 10:30 PM

I've been transported to Narnia!

godfry n. glad · #5 06-21-2005, 11:16 PM

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Originally Posted by viscousmemories

Cool lions, crazy country.

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In Ethiopia, kidnapping has long been part of the marriage custom, a tradition of sorrow and violence whose origins are murky.

The United Nations estimates that more than 70 percent of marriages in Ethiopia are by abduction, practiced in rural areas where the majority of the country's 71 million people live.

This applies in Kyrgyzstan as well, although I think the numbers are closer to 50%, rather than the 70% indicated here.