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Passion killing in Namibia

Definition of passion killing

• Passion killing is a crime committed due to heartbreak or outburst emotion just to get rid of things done deliberately, especially in relationships.

Who domain passion killing and who are the victims?

• Male domain drives of passion killing in Namibia especially this year 2012 Namibia is rocked by a number of passion killing. Women, especially unmarried women are the ones at risk of being slaughtered like animals.

Causes of passion killing

• The lack of understanding between girlfriend and wife and between boyfriend and husband because most of the people doing this are unmarried people.
• Women ending relationships when men do wrong like cheating. Men claims that they spend a lot on women like buying everything for them, give them money, pay their school fees and give everything a woman demands but then at the end they are being ditch.

Solutions to passion killing in Namibia

• People demanded death penalty to be re introduced in Namibia.
• Women are saying that,men should stop giving and at the same time stop demanding from women things like sex while not married yet because, this giving is like buying love and there is no true love.
• Men should expect the unexpected to happen and understand because,women don't kill men when they do wrong but but in this case of men, they kill women and or kill themselves too.
• Men are advised at least to ask to be paid back whatever they have spend on women instead of killing them.
• Men group should be created in Namibia so that they can be advised and helped because women are now nervous and cant say anything anymore, men has become no better than animals in Namibia.
• Women must make their right decisions before they commit to any man.
• The government and the private sector need to perhaps conduct in-depth research to determine what exactly is causing all these random passion killings .
• The nation also insisted for the churchesto take part in this situation, at least to start preaching about the danger of passion killing.

Due to the alarming rise in passion killing incidence, a number of organizations have been founded to tackle GBV. One such group is Move Namibia [1] [2]

Conclusion

Passion killing seems to be destroying Namibian families because, most of the people being killed are bread winners of their families o were to become bred winners in their families like students. If passion killing is going to continue then Namibians will have no peace. People will be fighting each other because it is so hard to forgive someone for smashing your foot while they are still standing on it.

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