In a harrowing video viewed more than 6 million times on YouTube, an 11-year-old Yemeni girl says she ran away from home after her parents threatened to marry her to a much older man.
“What ever happened to the innocence of childhood?” Nada al-Ahdal asks in Arabic. “What have the children done wrong? Why do you marry them off like that?”
In the three-minute video, she speaks straight to the camera and says she “would rather die” than get married.
“Go ahead, marry me off. I’ll kill myself,” Nada says.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/07/runaway-yemeni-girl-11-says-she-would-rather-die-than-marry
