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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Prof.) Nyikal",
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        "legal_name": "James Nyikal",
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    "content": "“domestic” comes from. The bedroom is a very small bit of this Bill. It should not occupy us so much. When we talk about economic harassment, we must be realistic. I want to take it from the young men now that there are married women who are richer and sometimes older than them; they are literally enslaved. I can tell you, even you guys here, you cannot take that young man out of that place. They cry there and they are molested, but they do not come out. One woman said in a case I know, that: “Go and see him there. Have I tied him with a rope?” Another woman told the mother who was going to take her son away: “You can make all the noise you want and you can go with him, but tomorrow he will come back to me.” Those are men! Therefore, we have to look at this Bill much deeper. Hon. Speaker, I do realize that there are certain areas in the villages--- In fact, the area we have problems with is actually on the definition of “violence”. The area we are having in mind is the soft one. At this level, I do not think we should confine ourselves to physical violence. In any case, most of us who are educated do not even beat women or men any more. You inflict on them that nil by mouth. You do not talk for a month; and those are the issues. You may find that it is difficult to legislate about this, but really, if you will go to court, there are ways it can be handled. But, instead of putting that in the criminal court, we are putting it in this special law which can look at it. The issue of domestic violence is a reality. The problem many times is that we look at this as domestic problem that is between a man and his wife; children and their parents and what do you want us to do? Because of that, the law is very lax and reluctant and does not take care of it. Hon. Speaker, I have heard of children who come with black marks all over their bodies as if they had small box. Where does that come from? Cigarette butts are put on children to burn them! You all know that children, either adopted or step children have actually been murdered so that women can continue to be loved. You have read these things on newspapers. These are the things we are talking about. Hon. Speaker, many people die. Every day you hear that somebody shot his wife, children and then shot himself. Have we gone to the background of why that is happening?"
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