But where there is no fear of interference or of discovery, the blows and kicks are applied in the most merciless and barbarous manner.

Women are killed in this way, and no outsider knows the cause.

One of my Moslem neighbors once beat one of his wives to death.

I heard her screams day after day, and finally, one night, when all was still, I heard a dreadful shriek, and blow after blow falling upon her back and head.

I could hear the brute cursing her as he beat her.