Original sentence: A member of Iraq’s Yezidi religious minority from the village of Bahzan in northern Iraq, she was killed by a group of eight or nine men and in the presence of a large crowd in the town of Bashika.In 2007, Du’a Khalil Aswad a 17 years old girl was stonned to death in Iraqi Kurdistan.Some of her relatives are said to have participated in the killing.The government's failure to protect Kurdish women, and enforce laws against criminals, has created a situation where thousands of Kurdish women become victims of so called "honour killings".Violence has risen as result of patriarchal and religious traditions in the region