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Bangladesh: Women and children bear scars of most acid attacks

— Women speaks of husband: “He’d been violent towards me before [their daughter] Bably was born but it was not until day five, when he actually fed her acid I realised something was seriously wrong”
— “Last year 179 people — three-quarters of those women and children — were victims of acid violence in Bangladesh”
— Bangladesh human rights campaigners’ reported concerns?  Not extremism, but “human rights campaigners say acid remains too easy to buy”
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