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Galina Nikolaevna speaks faultless French. She is one of those truly
gifted linguists, a simultaneous interpreter. If she lived in New York, Galina
would be pulling down a heavy salary at the United Nations. But living in
Naberezhnye Chelny, only the odd job from the Kamaz truck factory supplements
her teacher’s pay.
Many people ask him: ‘What’s a Russian doing in a pub in Mexico?’ How
dearly he would love to return home to Chelny, but he owes too many people there
too much money. So he answers simply, ‘Herbalife can change your life.’
The train to the Black Sea is packed with holidaymakers. Pasty faces of
city Russians look expectantly out of every window.
Galya was a typical Russian woman of simple likes and dislikes. What she
liked was money. And what she didn’t like were those who had more than she.
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MARCH 11,
2007 Shaykhspeara Sha'ira
Sakina and Raya: Egyptian Serial
Killers
Sakina and Raya are considered to be some of the 20th centuries
most ruthless criminals and have inspired the makings of both movies and
theatrical plays in their name.
In the year 1919 in a poor district of Alexandria called Al-Labban, the two
sisters began their murder spree. They had opened several brothel like houses
which they ran together. Raya would often be the one going to markets eyeing
out the women with the most jewelry on them (in order to steal it) and
striking up conversation using some excuse to lure them to their brothels.
There both the sisters husbands would help them kill the victims through
suffocation and bury them in the back yard.
One day in 1920 a man noted the authorities, he had found a skull in the
grounds of his house (previously owned by Sakina). Police began sniffing a
trail that literally led them to her sister Raya who was burning unusual
amounts of incense in her house. Raya had 2 bodies in her grounds while 15
other bodies were found at Sakinas house. The victims were all women, mostly
married, in the ages 17-50.
The death sentence, at that time hanging, had never been given to females
previously. However Raya and Sakina broke that trend and were hanged in 1921,
along with their husbands and two other helpers.
What I find particulary noteworthy about this piece of fascinating and
disturbing history is the motivation for previously not issuing the death
sentence to women as stated by the Public Prosecutor of that time, Suleiman
Ezzat; "...women's crimes generally demand an element of mercy and compassion,
such as crimes in which women are driven to kill their husbands' second wives
or in which they poison someone who has brought them harm."
Shaykhspeara Sha'ira at Sunday, March 11, 2007
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