Indian media footage of girl being sexually assaulted sparks outrage - Polidicks

[quote] Indians have reacted with anger and disgust over video footage of a young woman being sexually assaulted by a laughing mob of more than a dozen men in a busy street outside a bar in north-east India. Not only did no one intervene for up to 45 minutes during the attack, but an off-duty TV journalist filmed the incident on his phone and called a cameraman to join him. The footage was then broadcast on news channels, prompting a debate on women’s safety in India and whether journalists have a duty to help in such situations. In an interview with Indian media, the victim asked why the journalists did not help her. “They were only taking pictures. Why could they not help me?” Local police have been condemned over their initial indifference towards the attack, which took place last Monday night just a few minutes from the nearest police station in Guwahati, Assam. Frustrated at police inaction in the days following the assault, local residents put up “Wanted” posters of the men caught on camera and circulated the images on social networking sites. The attack has highlighted the dangers of being a woman in the world’s biggest democracy. Writing in the Mail Today on Sunday, the novelist Palash Krishna Mehrotra said: “This ghastly episode has brought back in focus an old issue: [URL="http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/guwahati-molestation-case-media-indian-men-club-mint/1/208280.html"]our primitive attitudes towards women[/URL].” A global poll last month voted India [URL="http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/06/13/g20-women-idINDEE85C00420120613"]the worst G20 country for women[/URL], behind even Saudi Arabia. Seven men have been arrested since Assam’s chief minister, Tarun Gogoi, on Saturday ordered detectives to arrest the culprits within 48 hours. A police official had also been suspended, according to Apurba Jabon Barua, a senior superintendent at Guwahati police force. Over the weekend a delegation from the National Commission for Women arrived in the city to support the victim. The NCW’s Alka Lamba told reporters the teenager had suffered “animal-like treatment” and claimed that there were cigarette burns all over her body. The victim told local media that the attack went on for “about 45 minutes” and that she would have been raped had the police not eventually come to her aid. NewsLive channel, whose journalists filmed the attack, defended its staff for not intervening. “Some [media] questioned me as to why my reporter and camera person shot the incident and didn’t prevent the mob from molesting the girl,” tweeted its editor-in-chief, Atanu Bhuyan. “But I’m backing my team since the mob would have attacked them, prevented them from shooting, that would have only destroyed all evidence.” Girija Vyas, an MP and a former president of the NCW, said: “No amount of criticism is enough for this incident … Is this the 21st century when we talk about equality? We can have a woman sitting at the post of the President of the country but the average woman on the street is not safe.”[/quote] [url]http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/07/15/indian-anger-over-media-footage-of-girl-being-sexually-assaulted/[/url]

I don't understand how people can just stand around and watch something like that. And as noble as it was for the journalist to film the incident he and his crew should have jumped in and tried to intervene as well. Now the teenager has cigarette burns all over her body and is probably going to be mentally scared for life.

Poor girl. [url=http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/06/13/g20-women-idINDEE85C00420120613]And this just isn't right.[/url]

Somebody has to ask for the video.

[QUOTE=geel9;36789879]Somebody has to ask for the video.[/QUOTE] why

[QUOTE=Kopimi;36789887]why[/QUOTE] Because you know 100% someone wants to see it because curiosity is a bitch.

[quote]prompting a debate on women’s safety in India and whether journalists have a duty to help in such situations.[/quote] Frankly, people in general have a duty to help. But where journalists are concerned it's one thing to be impartial if you're filming a war, it's another if a crime is in progress and no one is doing anything to stop it.

Well, if India had more women than men, perhaps those men might have not been sexually crazed maniacs. I'm just saying. The Indian society preference to male cause a severe decline of women. Also, if they have been properly educated or been given better jobs, they would have not end up in this predicament. Educations and employment prevents violent crime. I won't be surprised if India ends up having a severe population decline by the year 2040 due to a lack of women and children and an aging population.

[QUOTE=Dj-J3;36789940]Because you know 100% someone wants to see it because curiosity is a bitch.[/QUOTE] I admit i'm curious to see what it is.

[quote]A global poll last month voted India the worst G20 country for women, behind even Saudi Arabia.[/quote] I hate these kind of things. A young lady got raped by more than 7 men, let's VOTE. Why don't we actually fight rape more actively rather than voting for which country is the worst for women? Is it even relevant to anything? That's a serious question. I mean, do you really need a ranking of how bad the countries treat women? To me, it seems like all you have to know is that x country has social/justice problems. I don't get it.

Of course now you're all outraged, but the rest of the rapes that happen every damned day draw no thought or concern, right? [B]Edit:[/B] To everyone who marks me dumb, please, keep your deliberate ignorance going. Keep that fire burning so all you do is mark a dumb on a post when you know it's true rather than bothering to spend the time writing up a reply, spend the time you've saved ignoring the world's problems in your own delusions. Don't care enough to actually bother with change or intelligence, just maintain that blissful stupidity you're all so fond of. Please, just do me the favor of sterilizing yourself at the first chance, so in another fifty years we may have the chance to actually better things, actually help people and stop rapes from happening all over. Remove yourself from the gene pool so that others may take your place, those that actually care.

[QUOTE=Onirik;36790200]I hate these kind of things. A young lady got raped by more than 7 men, let's VOTE. [B]Why don't we actually fight rape more actively rather than voting for which country is the worst for women?[/B] Is it even relevant to anything? That's a serious question. I mean, do you really need a ranking of how bad the countries treat women? To me, it seems like all you have to know is that x country has social/justice problems. I don't get it.[/QUOTE] Why don't people do both? Is somebody saying we have to choose between one or the other? Of course not. What's wrong with having statistics?

wheres the vid

[QUOTE=DamagePoint;36789648]I don't understand how people can just stand around and watch something like that. And as noble as it was for the journalist to film the incident he and his crew should have jumped in and tried to intervene as well. Now the teenager has cigarette burns all over her body and is probably going to be mentally scared for life.[/QUOTE] Seems like rest of the Facepunch thinks the same if they want to see the video.

Guys, I do not understand the hate towards these reporters, it says more than a dozen men were participating in this thing, what could 2 reporters do? Go look up mob mentality, if those reporters had tried to intervene they couldve been seriously injured as well. The issue comes down to the police doing nothing as I am pretty sure no one could easily organize a "counter mob" and even then there is no telling how many people couldve been injured or what kind of damage wouldve been caused. This was the best the reporters could do in the situation and the issue falls on the shoulders of the local indian government, the culture and the police.

[QUOTE=Onirik;36790200]I hate these kind of things. A young lady got raped by more than 7 men, let's VOTE. Why don't we actually fight rape more actively rather than voting for which country is the worst for women? Is it even relevant to anything? That's a serious question. I mean, do you really need a ranking of how bad the countries treat women? To me, it seems like all you have to know is that x country has social/justice problems. I don't get it.[/QUOTE]kanye west told me i will die if i dont vote :([QUOTE=1chains1;36791005]Guys, I do not understand the hate towards these reporters, it says more than a dozen men were participating in this thing, what could 2 reporters do? Go look up mob mentality, if those reporters had tried to intervene they couldve been seriously injured as well. The issue comes down to the police doing nothing as I am pretty sure no one could easily organize a "counter mob" and even then there is no telling how many people couldve been injured or what kind of damage wouldve been caused. This was the best the reporters could do in the situation and the issue falls on the shoulders of the local indian government, the culture and the police.[/QUOTE]I totally agree with this. Say there was about ten people assisting the journalist, and these ten people were also resurrected bodyguards for Genghis Khan, then I'd expect them to take on an entire mob of people. A camera man and a journalist are going to get the snot beat out of them for ruining the "fun."

[QUOTE=Worldwaker;36790252]Of course now you're all outraged, but the rest of the rapes that happen every damned day draw no thought or concern, right? [B]Edit:[/B] To everyone who marks me dumb, please, keep your deliberate ignorance going. Keep that fire burning so all you do is mark a dumb on a post when you know it's true rather than bothering to spend the time writing up a reply, spend the time you've saved ignoring the world's problems in your own delusions. Don't care enough to actually bother with change or intelligence, just maintain that blissful stupidity you're all so fond of. Please, just do me the favor of sterilizing yourself at the first chance, so in another fifty years we may have the chance to actually better things, actually help people and stop rapes from happening all over. Remove yourself from the gene pool so that others may take your place, those that actually care.[/QUOTE] The outrage here is that the journalists did nothing at all to help her, you moron.

[QUOTE=BudakCiner;36791674]The outrage here is that the journalists did nothing at all to help her, you moron.[/QUOTE] Oh, so the outrage isn't in the society in which women are basically possessions then? This happens all over, people don't care enough to try to stop something that isn't their business. If you want to be outraged, be outraged that this happened at all, not that it wasn't stopped.

[QUOTE=Worldwaker;36791728]Oh, so the outrage isn't in the society in which women are basically possessions then? This happens all over, people don't care enough to try to stop something that isn't their business. If you want to be outraged, be outraged that this happened at all, not that it wasn't stopped.[/QUOTE] hey dude you can be outraged by both at the same time most people are

Wow, still no link posted in this thread? Even 1 lunatic 1 icepick was posted in the luka magnotta news report in the first few posts.

Go to Liveleak and search for "india" if you really must see it.

[QUOTE=BudakCiner;36791674]The outrage here is that the journalists did nothing at all to help her, you moron.[/QUOTE] The journalist actually did do something to help her... He captured it on film... You honestly have to think in their shoes... If a mob of guys is doing a criminal act I would almost guarantee you aren't going to walk up to them and help them... You can sit and lie all day and say, "I WOULD HAVE DONE SOMETHING" but in reality you know very good and well that you would be terrified to stand up to a mob of people committing a crime. The only reason why I said capturing it on film is helping is because now its a recorded event, there is proof there is reason to believe this is happening and you can see those who were ignorant enough to commit such a crime.

This is disgusting. Out of every animal on this planet, humans are by far the worst. The worst part about it is, there's nothing much that can be done...how do get billions of people to change their ways?

Not really surprising India is of the most misogynistic nations.