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The article is about domestic violence and the name of the lady who stabbed her husband is mentioned. The murder happened in front of a few people who immediately informed the village people and the police. Sabotsy Namehana, the murderer was arrested and is now waiting for the case to be taken to court.
This article is lacking in sources. The journalist mentions that several witnesses were present but made no effort to interview them to know why a woman would go as far as murdering her husband. Very often in cases of domestic violence, women are the victims/survivors while men are the perpetrators. In the majority of cases, for a woman to go as far as to killing her husband she must have been under terrible suffering or have suffered domestic violence for too long. As this is a rare case it would have made a very good in-depth article with the views of the police, the Ministry of Gender, NGOs working with survivors and shelters for women in distress. Statistics on how often women kill their husbands as opposed to men killing their wives would be relevant. The neighbours or close relatives of both the Namehana and her late husband could have been interviewed to know what was happening behind closed doors.
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