‘Tiger widows’ shunned as bad luck in rural Bangladesh | Malay Mail

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SHYAMNAGAR (Bangladesh), Feb 18 — Abandoned by her sons, shunned by her neighbours and branded a witch.  Mosammat Rashida’s crime? Her husband was killed by a Bengal tiger. Women like her are ostracised in many rural villages in Bangladesh, where they are viewed as the cause of their...

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In this photograph taken on November 11, 2019, Bangladeshi mother-of-four Mosammat Rashida, whose husband was killed by a Bengal tiger a decade ago while he was collecting honey, sits inside her house in Shyamnagar. — AFP picMosammat Rashida’s crime? Her husband was killed by a Bengal tiger.

Tigers are an endangered species but climate change and human development is reducing their wild habitat, often forcing them towards villages in search of food.At least 519 men died from tiger attacks in 50 villages in one district — home to half a million people — between 2001 and 2011, according to Ledars Bangladesh, a charity helping widows reintegrate back in the villages.

“The change is very slow. Still, I’d say there has been progress,” he added, noting that younger, more educated villagers were less fearful of the widows.Rijia Khatun, who said she has learnt to cope with being ostracised by her fellow villagers after her honey-hunter husband’s death 15 years ago, has been secretly supported by her nephew and his family.

“We had to do it with confidentiality or else the village society would have ostracised us as well,” he confessed.

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