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Let’s combat passion killings

The sanctity of life is seemingly slowly losing meaning to a lot of people in Botswana as many continue to kill others as they please.

Despite peace and tolerance being synonymous with Batswana, a series of murders glorified as passion killings have not been reflective of the standard of serenity abound in our society. There is no passion in the heinous crime of murder as usually men use weapons such as knives, axes or guns to slay their partners.

The aggrieved used to control anger or frustration and channel such feelings towards non-destructive outlets but over the years, they have been exhibiting a frightening lack of control.

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