B.C. Punjabi radio station host suspended for comments on domestic violence
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In an on-air segment, Sher-E-Punjab AM 600 radio host Paul Brar suggested that people commenting on the high-profile Mandeep Kaur case should not make personal matters public.
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A host at a B.C. Punjabi-language radio station has been suspended for his on-air comments while discussing a case of domestic violence out of New York that has garnered international attention.
Mandeep Kaur, 30, died by suicide in New York last week after posting a video online in which she accuses her husband of having beat her for years. Kaur, originally from Uttar Pradesh, India, shared pictures of bruises, a video in which he appears to smother or choke her, and a final video in which she blames her husband for her decision to kill herself, leaving behind her two daughters, ages six and four.
Kaur’s video message has sparked discussion about domestic violence within the South Asian community around the world, including here in B.C.
While discussing the matter on Thursday evening, Sher-E-Punjab AM 600 radio host Paul Brar suggested on air that people commenting on the high-profile case should not make personal matters public, and that Kaur’s husband’s side of the story has not yet been heard.
“We should be listening to men’s voices too,” Brar said in Punjabi, and that just because someone claims to have been beaten and abused, doesn’t make it true.
“To those Kaur Movement women, I’m pleading with you to not tear homes apart,” he said.
On Friday morning, the Richmond-based station apologized to its listeners and said Brar had been suspended.
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