INDIA RAPES .President Obama: “Rape is Rape” WHEN WILL THE WOMENS FIND A SAFE PLACE
Young Girl named Damini Brutally Gang Raped by 5 men in India, Intestines Removed and Girl eventually died.A few days before Christmas, a brutal gang rape case happened in Delhi, in which a 23-year old student was raped using an L-shaped, rusty rod and had her intestines removed. The victim was left half-dead, and was taken to the hospital in a very critical condition. She was then transferred to Singapore. However, on December 29, she died of brain damage and gastrointestinal injuries. The case triggered public protests in India and generated international coverage. The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women condemned the incident, calling the Delhi government to do everything it can for radical reforms and ensure that women’s lives are secure and safe. In Delhi, a mob of protesters clashed with the security forces while similar protests took place in cities throughout the country. A Dangerous Unauthorized Public BusOn December 16, 2012, at about 9pm, a female and her male friend boarded a bus, thinking it was a public transport. In the bus were the driver and five men. The male then doubted when the bus took a different road and the men locked the doors. They then attacked him and gang raped the female at the back of the bus, while it was still running. The worse is, a gang member inserted a rusty, L-shaped rod – a type used as wheel jack handles, into the female and ripped her intestines. The two were then thrown from the bus – half-naked and unconscious. A passerby spotted them on the road and brought them to the hospital where the female especially, received treatment. Unfortunately, she did not survive and died on December 29. The Suspects The suspects – the driver and the five men are already arrested, awaiting trial. The public clamored for the victims’ justice and wanted the suspects to receive maximum punishment for their heinous crime. To comply with the Indian law where victims’ real names are not disclosed, the female victim is called using pseudo names like Damini, thus, the headlines do talk about Damini Rape Case.
Safety issues: A Swiss woman who police say was gang-raped while touring central India by bicycle with her husband is led to a hospital in Gwalior for a medical examination Saturday. | AP
NEW DELHI – A Swiss woman who was on a bicycle tour with her husband along central India’s tourist trail was gang-raped by seven men, police said Saturday, again highlighting the issue of poor safety for females in the country. The incident served as a reminder that neither the national outcry against rape since the deadly assault on a student in New Delhi in December nor recent government efforts to impose a tough law against sexual harassment has reduced crimes against women. On the contrary, the capital witnessed 150 rapes in the first 45 days of this year. Police in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh said the 39-year-old woman and her husband were traveling by bicycle to the city of Agra, site of the Taj Mahal, the renowned 17th-century marble mausoleum. “They had veered off the main road after sunset into the jungle and set up a tent to rest during the night,” said R.K. Gurjar, the police station chief in Datia, the small town where the incident occurred. “Nobody goes into these jungles in the night. The cattle herders, wood collectors leave before dark. They were all alone and without help. They could have stayed in the village nearby or taken shelter at a school instead.” Gurjar said seven men raped the woman, beat her husband with wooden sticks and stole the couple’s money, cellphone and laptop. Police said they have detained 20 men for questioning and sent eight to be identified by the couple. Madhya Pradesh has the highest incidence of rapes in the country, with more than nine reported every day. The state’s home minister, Uma Shankar Gupta, told Madhya Pradesh’s legislative assembly this year that there had been 3,381 rapes in 2011, of which more than 300 were gang rapes. “At a time when we are trying to promote tourism, especially tiger tourism and sacred Buddhist trails in the state, this kind of horrific crime will scare tourists away,” said Pankaj Chaturvedi, director of Air Aman Travels in Bhopal, the state capital. Last year, Madhya Pradesh attracted about 650,000 foreign tourists, a figure that tour operators wanted to increase by 20 percent this year, Chaturvedi said. The incident in Datia occurred a day after another young woman was raped by three men in a moving bus in the city of Indore, also in Madhya Pradesh
A few days before Christmas, a brutal gang rape case happened in Delhi, in which a 23-year old student was raped using an L-shaped, rusty rod and had her intestines removed. The victim was left half-dead, and was taken to the hospital in a very critical condition. She was then transferred to Singapore. However, on December 29, she died of brain damage and gastrointestinal injuries. The case triggered public protests in India and generated international coverage. The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women condemned the incident, calling the Delhi government to do everything it can for radical reforms and ensure that women’s lives are secure and safe. In Delhi, a mob of protesters clashed with the security forces while similar protests took place in cities throughout the country.
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