WEB EXCLUSIVE CAUGHT ON TAPE: Teenager Stoned To Death

Youre about to witness an honor killing. A 17-year old girl, dragged into a crowd in a headlock. Uniformed men, apparently security forces, look on and do nothing. Plenty of other men around to stop it. Instead, many capture it on cell-phone video. Partially clothed, Dua Khalol is kicked and stoned to death. A top official in norhtern Iraqs Nineveh province, where this occurred last month, says: Dua had been seen with a Sunni-Muslim man. She had not married him or converted, this official said, but her attackers believed she had. Duas family belongs to the Yazidi sect. It draws on the beliefs of religions like Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, and does not approve of mixing with people outside the faith. "The climate, the religious and social climate is such that people cna do that in daylight and athat authorities do not intervene," said Houzan Mahmoud, of the Organization of Womens Freedom in Iraq. The province official says, four people have been arrested, including two members of Dua Khalils family. They are looking for four other men, including a cousin. The United Nations and human rights groups say there are thousands of honor-killings worldwide each year. Dozens have been committed in Iraq this year, and Amnesty International says there are frequent reports of them in the northern Kurdish region. Dua Khalil was Kurdish, but the killing occurred outside Kurdistan. Still - Kurdish officials condemn the attack, and tell us what theyre doing to prevent more of them. "One of the things were doing is trying to bring more female officers into the police and security organizations. This will give anyone that is a victim of these crimes or feels threatened by these kinds of crimes can feel more comfortable in speaking to a lady officer," he says.