Gang-rape epidemic: India mourns victim, proposes chemical castration for offenders

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    India is drafting a bill proposing 30 years’ jail for rapists and possible chemical castration. It comes after a 23-year-old woman, gang-raped in New Delhi, died in hospital, drawing public attention to an epidemic of violence against women.

    The victim’s body was transferred from the Singapore hospital where she died on Saturday back to India for the funeral on Sunday morning. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the head of the ruling Congress Party greeted the plane carrying the body at the airport.

    The private cremation ceremony was held under tight security in Delhi a few hours after the victim’s body arrived in India.

    The case of the medical student raped two weeks ago in the Munirka area of Delhi by a group of men has dominated the Indian public forum. The incident has provoked public outrage, condemning the police and the government for their inaction on the issue of women’s safety.

    In response to public uproar, India’s ruling Congress Party is drafting the new legislation for submission to the Justice Verma Committee, charged with reassessing current rape laws and suggesting changing to ensure greater safety for women.

    The document stipulates a maximum jail sentence of 30 years for those convicted of rape and the introduction of chemical castration as a punitive measure, writes the Indian Express. The draft legislation also stipulates a fast-track deadline of 90 days to finish court proceedings.

    Additionally, the Indian government heard calls from the Bharatiya Janata Party to hold an emergency parliamentary session to discuss women’s safety after the death of the 23-year-old woman who was brutally gang-raped in New Delhi. The medical student, whose identity remains unknown, was reportedly raped for almost an hour before she and a male friend were beaten with iron bars and then thrown out of the New Delhi bus on which she was traveling

    Thousands took to the streets of the city on Saturday after the news of the victim’s death in a massive peaceful protest.

    Six men were charged with murder on Saturday in connection with the rape. If the suspects are convicted of their crimes they will face the death penalty.

    The shameful incident can yield a positive result if only the government decides to take a quick decision. For this a parliamentary session should be held immediately where all issues related to the safety of women should be discussed,” the party’s national vice-president and Rajya Sabha member Shanta Kumar said to Indian Express.

    Referring to the mass protests sparked by the woman’s death, Kumar said that the government “has still not opened its eyes completely” to the issue of women’s safety.

    He went on to slam the police, branding entire administration as “inefficient and corrupt.”


    The rape case has become the focus of protests across India, rallying for greater protection for women in Indian society. New Delhi has an infamous reputation as India’s rape capital, with a report from the Hindustan Times documenting more than 20 rape cases since December 16 in the city.

    "We are aware that this is not the first case, nor will it be the last case of gang-rape in India, but it is clear that we will not tolerate sex crimes anymore," said Bela Rana, a lawyer participating in a Delhi rally to AP.

    Victims of gang-rapes often do not come forward to the police in India for fear of shaming their families or being ignored by police. Moreover, cases are so widespread that they are rarely covered by the press.


    http://rt.com/news/delhi-chemical-castration-rape-092/

    Could be a watershed moment, in a positive manner, if it leads to their Gov taking steps to give greater protections etc, to females.

    It was not so many years ago, that women in the West would be afraid of reporting such a thing, for much the same reasons, as the last part (bold).
     
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    Sad, is not it? I wonder what do they do to rapists in the Middle East? They.... that's right... nothing. It's always woman's fault over there...
     
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    in the rare case where it's not, it's a far more gruesome punishment than prison.
     
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    Is this about Muslims?

    Again.
     
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    leave them in stocks in front of the prison over night, after that, they won't be raping anyone ever again and neither will anyone that ever hears about what happened to them.
     
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    no, just India.
     
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    Just branching out and expanding, Jack. After all, I have a very good teachers on this forum, Jack, who always find Zionists at fault, no matter what's the thread's subject :)
     
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    AKA...trying to make this about Muslims. Again.
     
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    10 men were hanged in Egypt in 2009 for raping a woman in Kafr Sheikh.

    What's the punishment in your city?
     
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    India has draconian anti-gun legislation from Colonial times. Criminals are apparently getting so bold that raping women is a sport to them.
     
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    (as Meerkat would say- SIMPLES .

    In most countries a rapist would have his balls removed .(CASTRATED ) , if not judically then by any male member of the victims family.

    No nonsense.


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    Guns has fokall to do with it. Most Indians cant afford keeping a roof over their heads/clothes on their back/ a daily square meal

    btw - Inspite of British Colonial efforts to outlaw it, In rural India (Hindus ) continue the age old practice of female gendercide (murdering /killing females at birth) coz they'll be not be as productive/useful as males - families prefer to have sons instead of daughters)


    RPAI - I doubt you'll ever be able to learn/ understand or think clearly as long as you've got your gun stuck up your wotsits .

    tata.
     
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    Rape is nothing new to india or anywhere else and has fokall to do with guns.

    As you've displayed your ignorance about guns in India I'm posting this :

    "India — Gun Facts, Figures and the Law

    The estimated number of firearms held by civilians in India is 40 million

    In comparison to the number of 178 countries (mostly third world) India ranked No.2

    Number of Privately Owned Firearms
    The estimated total number of guns held by civilians in India is 40,000,000


    Rate of Civilian Firearm Possession per 100 Population
    The rate of private gun ownership in India is 3.363 firearms per 100 people

    Number of Privately Owned Firearms - World Ranking
    In a comparison of the number of privately owned guns in 178 countries, India ranked at No. 2


    Rate of Privately Owned Firearms per 100 Population - World Ranking
    In a comparison of the rate of private gun ownership in 179 countries, India ranked at No. 11

    Number of Registered Firearms
    The number of registered guns in India is reported to be 6,300,000

    Rate of Registered Firearms per 100 Population
    The rate of registered firearms per 100 people in India is 0.533

    Estimated Number of Illicit Firearms
    Unlawfully held guns cannot be counted, but in India there are estimated to be 33,700,000



    More statistics here :

    http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/india


    click on the relative/appropriate link STOP making a fool of yourself AND LEARN .

    In India the prevalence of illicit craft, or 'home-made' firearm manufacture is reported to be high


    FYI - Ive seen beared Pathan gunsmiths sitting /holding metal bits / gun barrels between their toes while making copies of AK-47 's .


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    This is such a tragic and sad story but I feel it's just the tip of the ice-berg in India. I remember travelling throughout the south of the country during the early 1990s and hearing regular stories from a variety of reliable western sources about the extent of the rape problem in a country with a particularly low conviction rate.
     
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    93,000 rape cases awaiting in the Indian courts.
    Since the rape of the Indian girl there have been 100+ more reported in New Delhi.


    In the United States, 1.3 women are raped every minute. That results in 78 rapes each hour, 1,872 rapes each day, 56,160 rapes each month, and 683,280 rapes each year.

    The United States has the world's highest rape rate of the countries which publish such statistics - 4 times higher than Germany, 13 times higher than England, and 20 times higher than Japan.
    http://davismaar.org/facts.htm

    In an Indian study by the South India Cell for Human Rights Education and Monitoring said one woman is raped every 34 minutes
    http://www.dnaindia.com/bangalore/report_one-woman-raped-every-34-minutes-in-india-study_1504823

    In Egypt rapists are executed.
    What is the punishment rapists get in USA?
     
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    1 out of every 3 American women will be sexually assaulted in her lifetime.

    1 in 7 women will be raped by her husband.

    61% of all rape cases are victims less than 18 years old. 22% are between the ages of 18 and 24.

    In a survey of college women, 38% reported sexual victimization which met the legal definition of a rape or attempted rape, yet only 1 out of every 25 reported their assault to the police.

    1 in 4 college women have either been raped or suffered attempted rape.

    In a study of college students, 35% of men indicated some likelihood that they would commit a violent rape of a woman who had fended off an advance if they were assured of getting away with it.

    1 in 12 male students surveyed had committed acts that met the legal definition of rape. Furthermore, 84% of the men who had committed such acts said what they had done was definitely not rape.

    75% of male students and 55% of female students involved in acquaintance rape had been drinking or using drugs.

    Rape has a devastating impact on the mental health of victims. 31% of all victims develop Rape-Related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (RR-PTSD) at some time during their lifetime. Based upon U.S. census reports on the number of women in the United States, 1.3 million women currently have RR-PTSD, 3.8 million women have previously had RR-PTSD, and roughly 211,000 will develop RR-PTSD each year.

    When compared with non-victims, rape victims have been found to be 8.7 times more likely to attempt suicide.

    Only 16% of rapes are ever reported to the police. In a survey of victims who did not report rape or attempted rape to the police, the following was found as to why no report was made: 43% though nothing could be done; 27% felt it was a private matter; 12% were afraid of police response; and 12% felt it was not important enough.

    The information above is provided by the United States Department of Justice-Violence Against Women Office.
     
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    India are not in my good books, for a number of reasons.

    1) They get aid, yet can afford a space programme.

    2) They can afford a space programme, yet their poverty gap is a disgrace.

    3) The caste system strikes me as little more than apartheid, of a fashion.

    4) They are not signatories to the NPT. Why not?

    5) People work in conditions that would never be acceptable here.
     
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    Staggering really.

    Have you ever looked at the levels of rape they have within their armed forces?

    It is shocking.

    A huge % of females in the US armed forces are raped and sexually assaulted, then pressured not to report it.

    The US army reminds me of the Red Army - denoted by it's high number of rapists and deviants.
     
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    Jack, don't you realize it's a response to you for always harping about the Jews? :grin:
     
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    As I have said before, if honest reporting and true journalistic standards were in place, hundreds of thousands of us would not need to 'harp on about Jews', as they would not be too cowardly to criticise Israel and Jewry.

    It still has nothing to do with this tragic situation.
     
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    Rape is punishable by fines, temporary imprisonment, and in some cases life imprisonment. Unless the victim of rape dies or the rapist intends the cause death to the victim, he or she may not receive the death penalty. According to the US Supreme Court, doing so is a violation of the Eighth Amendment.
     
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    I think in the Near and Middle East the girl is killed by her own family. The fact that she was in a place where she could be seen is a humiliation because it lowers them to their peers. Also she cannot get married, and this is the reason women have to be chaperoned and covered from head to toe. We have had honor killings in the U.S. as well. From my own experience with Christians from that part of the world, it seems that the brothers, fathers and mothers of these girls are so critical and condemning of others that when someone in their own family steps out of line, they can't take the embarassment so they kill them.

    Those societies should become more open and tolerant, but with the extremes of immorality going on in the West, would they want to? :confuse:
     
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    Two possible positives.

    As a result of the mass protests, it seems that finally, the Gov there are being forced to take it seriously, which is a step in the right direction.

    These days, with the net, it is v hard for a country to hide all it's dirty secrets as it once did, and this means there is external pressure.
     
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    Good question, to which I would say that either maybe the balance is somewhere in the middle, and, as well as that, it is not ALL of 'the West' as you describe, I can think of plenty of countries in Europe, in which the people are v good and moral folks.
     

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