The young woman was raped by six men and then thrown onto the road from a moving bus. Authorities haven’t released her name, but the violence she suffered has inspired weeks of protests insisting on justice for women in India.
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She died this morning at 4:45 AM. CNN reported:
The woman had been in “extremely critical condition” since being admitted Thursday to the Singapore hospital, and Loh had said Friday that she’d “taken a turn for the worse.”
“She had suffered from severe organ failure following serious injuries to her body and brain,” Loh said. “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.”
Wednesday, another alleged rape victim in India died as a result of suicide after officials appeared to have egregiously mishandled her case. The Indian government has sworn to address the issue of violence perpetrated against women, offering to “‘name and shame’ convicted rapists by posting their names, images and addresses on official websites, according to the Times of India.”
In a recent poll of G20 countries, India rated the worst place to be a woman, Canada came in first and the United States came in at a pathetic 6th place. Land of the free. One of the reasons for being 6th in spite of our freedoms is “many of the gains of the last 100 years are under attack and the most overt and vicious attack is on reproductive rights.” Thanks, Republicans.
There are many moving pictures from the protests for justice in India, but something about this picture really hit me. The picture of these three young men standing up for their sisters’ rights inspires hope for humanity.
“Save our sisters.” Yes, please.
Image: December 24, 2012, by Adnan Abidi / Reuters
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Satish Chandra
Dec. 29th, 2012 at 10:29 pm
DECEMBER 29, 2012: RAW has used the gang rape of the 23-year old Delhi girl and countrywide outrage to divert attention from my press releases this month about the “Anglo-American enforcement of their ownership of India”, from the killing of over ten million Indians in just the ten years after 1857 by the British to enforce their will to the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan to drone attacks on Pakistan to the trafficking of Indian children to be used as food — RAWsTraffickingOfIndianChildrenDOTblogspotDOTcom — and the total possession and rape of India by the Anglo-Americans and their white friends in economic, military and all spheres with CIA’s rule over India via RAW that I have described at WhatYouShouldKnowAboutRAWDOTblogspotDOTcom. Like keeping Indians and Pakistanis fighting each other rather than their white oppressors, this is meant to keep Indians focused on rapes of Indians by Indians and not on their incomparably more violent rape and domination by the white countries and all the Indians participating in this RAW-sponsored event are participating in the enforcement of Anglo-American ownership of India, in the rape of India. JoinIndiaWarOfIndependenceDOTblogspotDOTcom
In service of its white masters RAW has committed innumerable terrorist acts in India taking part even in the Mumbai attack of 2008, carried out train accidents killing hundreds in each incident, sabotage of India’s defence equipment, spreading AIDS in India to provide the white countries a population of guinea pigs for vaccine development, murders including those of Indira and Rajiv Gandhi, etc., etc. The minor who has been arrested at first was reported to have assaulted only the victim’s male friend but not taken part in the rape but later was assigned the responsibility for, by himself, having mutilated her intestines and other internal organs with an iron rod, because a minor can get away with confinement in a juvenile facility for a couple of years no matter what the…
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Shiva (Moderator)
Dec. 29th, 2012 at 10:41 pm
I think thats a little more gore then we asked for
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Johnee
Dec. 30th, 2012 at 12:02 am
Don’t know what to make of your post here. Let’s just say I’m open minded but skeptical of some of the stuff you said.
However, I know this: even if all your claims were true, this has absolutely NOTHING to do with the fact that a young woman was brutally assaulted and violated in the most appalling and horrific manner.
It is a credit to all your countrymen that are speaking out against this tragedy and something you should be proud of them for, rather than condemning them for it.
“focused on rapes of Indians by Indians…”
WTF? So according to you – since white folks are doing something that they shouldn’t be doing in your country – we really shouldn’t be paying that much attention to people that are raped in the most foul and disgusting manner by of their own countrymen, because in your estimation it pales in comparison?
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Joseph Dorso
Dec. 30th, 2012 at 12:44 pm
Sock it to em johnee…very well put my man. You said it very respectfully, & got your opinion across very,very well. Alot more elegantly put. Better job then i could. Have done it.
Im just asdisgusted as u are.
Peace
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Reynardine
Dec. 30th, 2012 at 12:43 am
Well, yes. I am familiar with the fact that noun and adjective are interchangeable: either “British motherfuckers” or “motherfucking British”. But, b’damn, you like your cricket matches, soccer matches, and afternoon tea. Don’t say no. I was married to two of you. Meanwhile, what is the fate of one violated, eviscerated, painfully murdered young woman? Just a distraction from your feud with the British motherfuckers (which you are carrying out in English) after all.
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Hrafnkell Haraldsson
Dec. 30th, 2012 at 10:56 am
Satish, quite clearly these tens of thousands of valiant young Indians are not protesting Anglo-Saxon anything. They are protesting what their own countrymen are doing to their women. Wake up. Be relevant.
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Marwill
Dec. 29th, 2012 at 10:39 pm
One news station reported that one of the rapists put his hand into the young woman’s body, dragged out her uterus and threw it off the bus. I was physically sick on hearing this.
How could anyone do something like this to another human being?. Was this an act of herd mentality, each spurring the other on?
Whatever, it doesn’t matter, they should all be jailed for life.
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Reynardine
Dec. 30th, 2012 at 12:36 am
I think I am going to throw up.
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djchefron
Dec. 29th, 2012 at 11:17 pm
Powerful Photographs Of India Demanding Justice For Women
http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/powerful-photographs-of-india-demanding-justice-fo
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mathazar
Dec. 30th, 2012 at 1:10 am
Isn’t India also the place where men throw acid in the faces of women who spurn their advances ?
I seem to recall a horrific story about it in National Geographic.
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Reynardine
Dec. 30th, 2012 at 6:24 am
That has happened even in the United States, but the most recent case that received notoriety was in Iran.
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Reynardine
Dec. 30th, 2012 at 6:36 am
An American case which received nationwide notoriety was the Burt Pugach/Linda Riss case in 1960. That was lye, not acid. But the number of women shot/stabbed/beaten to death in the United States every year because “if I can’t have you, no one will”, is not picayune. Neither are the number of rapes, including those which end fatally. Gang rapes are a good deal more likely to have a lethal outcome than those committed by single assailants.
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Johnee
Dec. 30th, 2012 at 11:12 am
I think he is referring to it as a not uncommon cultural event in some tight knit communities in certain areas of India. I vaguely recall something like that as well, but I will have to research.
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djchefron
Dec. 30th, 2012 at 11:48 am
I was shocked when I read this article.How can you face a problem when in a way you condone it.
India’s culture of rape is endemic
By choosing candidates facing rape charges, the country’s political parties have implicitly sanctioned the crime
http://www.salon.com/2012/12/29/indias_culture_of_rape_is_endemic/
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Anne
Dec. 30th, 2012 at 11:53 am
I am quite happy that there are folks in India protesting this atrocity. For so long, in India and even here until relatively recently, rape victims have been held accountable for the injury inflicted on them. It is a poisonous outgrowth of the sexual double standard, which penalized women and girls for any deviation from what are or were considered “acceptable” behaviors. Victims of violence that’s stemmed from racial, religious, or anti-gay bigotries have also been often blamed for what happened to them. Unfortunately, what happened to this poor woman is a symptom of the low regard for women that pervades that society. The insanely stupid and cruel treatment the suicide victim was subjected to by law enforcement officers after reporting she was raped is part of that sickness. At any rate, I hope that the atrocities these women suffered will bring about a permanent change in how women are treated. That doesn’t absolve this country from the need to examine its own behavior toward women, especially with nutjobs trying to turn the clock back by interfering with women’s reproductive rights.
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Johnee
Dec. 30th, 2012 at 2:42 pm
Anne, I think “the nutjobs trying to turn the clock back” are the primary detractors. On the whole, as a majority, I think most of America is on the same page on certain issues.
Unfortunately, even though these zealots are a minority, they are a concentrated and dedicated one.
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