[BrianR]

If the girl's brother committed the offense (walking with an unmarried girl from another tribe without a chaperone)
then why is it that HE isn't the one being gang-raped? I'm mostly serious. I think what we have here is a case where the village elder(s) had the hots for this girl and saw a way to have their fun.

That said, I'm against this type of "outside the law" enforcement even though we have a form of it here in the USA, wherein we allow the Indian tribes living on the reservations to police themselves (more or less) and even set up different rules for them (witness the casinos and tobacco sales). But what can (should) we do about it?
Send the NOW hags over there to protest and generally terrify the locals who will (I guarantee it) resent any US intrusion and probably even the press coverage. Should we send in the Marines? I don't think so.

If I were the President, I would let this become a non-issue and let the government of that country handle their own problems according to their laws. I fail to see the national interest in this incident, however deplorable it may be.

Brian