• Delhi in lockdown as death of gang rape victim sparks riot fears
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[img]http://imgkk.com/i/dpze.jpg[/img] [img]http://imgkk.com/i/n76b.jpg[/img] [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-20863707[/url] [quote=BBC News][B]Police in India have sealed off much of the capital, Delhi, and issued an appeal for calm after the death of a woman who was gang-raped in the city.[/B] The 23-year old woman, who has not been identified, died early on Saturday at a hospital in Singapore, where she had been taken for specialist treatment. Her body is to be flown back to India. The attack on 16 December triggered violent public protests in India that left one police officer dead. Six men have been arrested in connection with the rape and two police officers have been suspended. As news of the woman's death spread, police sealed off large parts of central Delhi, closed down a number of metro railway stations and asked people not to travel into the city. Hundreds of armed police and riot troops are on duty, many of them women, and Delhi's police commissioner Neeraj Kumar has called on the public to remain calm. Gatherings of more than five people have been banned in the city centre. But on Saturday morning, a few hundred people gathered at the Jantar Mantar observatory, one of the areas of the city where protests are permitted, said the BBC's Sanjoy Majumder in the city. There have also been calls for protests in cities across the country. [B]'Constructive action'[/B] The Mount Elizabeth hospital in Singapore said the woman "passed away peacefully" early on Saturday with her family by her side. Hospital chief executive Kelvin Loh said she had been in "an extremely critical condition" since arriving there, and had suffered severe organ failure following serious injuries to her body and brain. "She was courageous in fighting for her life for so long against the odds but the trauma to her body was too severe for her to overcome," he said. Officials from the Indian High Commission were also present when she died. The Indian home minister said the government had decided to send the woman abroad for treatment on the recommendation of her doctors. Her body will be flown home on Saturday. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he was "very saddened" by the woman's death, and that the angry public reaction was "perfectly understandable". "It would be a true homage to her memory if we are able to channel these emotions and energies into a constructive course of action," he said in a statement. He called on politicians and the public to set aside "narrow sectional interest" and work together to make India "a demonstrably better and safer place for women to live in". The woman - a medical student - and her friend had been to see a film when they boarded the bus in the Munirka area of Delhi, intending to travel to Dwarka in the south-west of the city. Police said she was raped for nearly an hour, and both she and her companion were beaten with iron bars, then thrown out of the moving bus into the street. The assault sparked angry protests about the general conditions for women in India, and about what is seen as an inadequate police response to rape allegations. Officials have since announced a series of measures intended to make Delhi safer for women. These include more police night patrols, checks on bus drivers and their assistants, and the banning of buses with tinted windows or curtains. The government has also said that it will post the photos, names and addresses of convicted rapists on official websites to shame them. It has set up two committees - one looking into speeding up trials of cases involving sexual assaults on women, and the other to examine the lapses that might have led to the incident in Delhi. But the protesters say the government's pledge to seek life sentences for the attackers is not enough - many are calling for the death penalty.[/quote]
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This is incredibly sad, what a horrible ending. God help the Government officials in Delhi who allowed this to happen, they're in a whole world of shit now.
Words cannot truly express what the heck is going on here. Something needs to be done about this situation now and also for the future so such an occurrence will not happen again.
[QUOTE=Deamie;39016336]This is incredibly sad, what a horrible ending. God help the Government officials in Delhi who allowed this to happen, they're in a whole world of shit now.[/QUOTE] What is absolutely astounding is that this [URL="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/rape-survivor-airlift-was-govt-not-medical-decision/article4246109.ece"]government of mine has the fucking audacity to move the critically injured patient[/URL] purely because having her at that hospital any longer would've resulted in a major shitstorm (most likely the protesters would've used the hospital as a staging ground for rallies) if she died on Indian soil. A junior doctor had told the media prior to her "transfer" that she was already dead, and the government did this just to try and do damage control to what is already a very bad situation. [QUOTE=KILLTHIS;39016542]Words cannot truly express what the heck is going on here. Something needs to be done about this situation now and also for the future so such an occurrence will not happen again.[/QUOTE] The problem actually needs to be shouldered by society first - to get rid of the long standing misogynistic views held by several Indian males under the control of India's prevalent patriarchal society is the first step. What actually brought this case to the fore ([URL="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/noida/Greater-Noida-girl-alleges-gang-rape/articleshow/17801515.cms"]rape, is, sadly a common occurrence in India[/URL]) is the sheer brutality involved (imagine yanking out the intestines of a person from their abdoment after having brutally violated her several times). Another big issue is India's poor judicial track record for such cases - these cases tend to drag on for years and the chance of a conviction is minimal at best. On top of this, the victim needs to deal with the societal stigma of being a rape victim which is bad enough to make the victim contemplate suicide ([URL="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/rape-victim-suicide-what-did-they-open-first-shirt-or-jeans-asked-cops/1051709/1"]as in the case of a recent gangrape victim from Patiala, Punjab[/URL]). The entire episode has a lot of India seething with rage - both with the politicians in power ([URL="http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?283451"]who are still firmly in the idiotic belief that the women invited it on themselves by the way they dressed, going out late and being in the company of men[/URL]), the public's growing anger as case after case of their rampant corruption becomes exposed and the growing disconnect between primitive manipulative assholes and the "constituents" they are supposed to represent. But yeah, it's pretty depressing and a lot of people are very very angry. It is unlikely that the situation will die down soon because it comes at a time where a lot of people in the generally passive Indian public are beginning to wake up to express their strong disapproval of some of the things that are being done in their name by the corrupt assholes in power.
Shame some of the policies brought in to respond to this are not going to help at all: [QUOTE]The government has also said that it will post the photos, names and addresses of convicted rapists on official websites to shame them.[/QUOTE] How long until someone starts hunting these people down and attacking them? Imprison them, sure, but not giving them a chance to live a normal life after they have served their sentence is just asking for more trouble.
[QUOTE=NeonpieDFTBA;39017364]Shame some of the policies brought in to respond to this are not going to help at all: How long until someone starts hunting these people down and attacking them? Imprison them, sure, but not giving them a chance to live a normal life after they have served their sentence is just asking for more trouble.[/QUOTE] they knew the consequences of committing a crime in a shame based society.
[QUOTE=NeonpieDFTBA;39017364]Shame some of the policies brought in to respond to this are not going to help at all: How long until someone starts hunting these people down and attacking them? Imprison them, sure, but not giving them a chance to live a normal life after they have served their sentence is just asking for more trouble.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/tihar-inmates-thrash-delhi-gangrape-accused/1/238702.html"]Given the fact that during that during the short time they spent in gen. pop. in Tihar Jail (well known for being one of the worst prisons in India) resulted in the other inmates beating the living crap out of them and forcing them to eat shit and drink piss[/URL], they're dead men walking if their names and faces are made public. [URL="http://says.com/in/news/girl-gangraped-in-moving-bus-friend-beaten-up-with-iron-rod-both-thrown-off-bus"]One of the accused reportedly asked to be given the noose[/URL] (and this was before what a case of rape turned into murder) because he knew he wasn't going to live anyway. [URL="http://dailypioneer.com/city/117257-neighbours-not-surprised-at-what-ram-singh-did.html"]One of the accused's own father (a helper in an airport) also wanted his son to face the death penalty[/URL]. [URL="http://www.ndtv.com/article/cities/was-coimbatore-child-rapist-killed-in-fake-encounter-65180"]In the state of Tamil Nadu, what is often done in such cases of convicted paedophiles and rapists is that they are killed in what are known as fake encounters (which are pretty illegal itself)[/URL].
[QUOTE=Irkalla;39017401]they knew the consequences of committing a crime in a shame based society.[/QUOTE] That doesn't make it right.
[QUOTE=NeonpieDFTBA;39017507]That doesn't make it right.[/QUOTE] Neither does what they did to the woman who is now dead. Two wrongs don't make a right, but I'm not gonna criticise brutal revenge killings of the people who did it, only if the wrong people are accused and killed will I criticise.
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