There are protests in India over the gang-rape and murder of that teenage girl in Kolkata.
Apparently the authorities are no longer talking about suicide.
She was then set on fire on December 23 and died in a state-run hospital late on New Year’s Eve, police said.
“She gave us a dying declaration in front of the health officials that she was set on fire by two persons close to the accused when she was alone at home on December 23,” local policeman Nimbala Santosh Uttamrao told AFP.
It beggars belief. They raped her and then to punish her for being raped by them, they set her on fire.
THEY SET HER ON FIRE.
What is wrong with people?
Several hundred activists on Wednesday protested in Kolkata over the crime, which was shocking in its brutality, even after a year when sex crimes have been widely reported in India.
Meanwhile, Taslima’s serial, which might have raised some consciousness about the way women are treated in South Asia…will not be seen, because someone thought it might offend someone. Fabulous priorities.
… she was set on fire by two persons close to the accused …
Which implies they didn’t charge those named, but others “close” to them.
Huh what?
My belief has a wealth of this crap.
The thing that got me with this story?
They had actually raped her twice. The second time was when she got home from reporting the first time.
It took the cops two months after she reported the first rape to arrest the perpetrators.
Fabulous priorities? Or privileged priorities?
This world, and by that, I mean the world we humans create socially, and thus decide the rules, sucks.
I live in a supposedly advanced country, but the religious conservatives are rolling back abortion laws under the guise of human rights.As if a fetus was more a person than a woman who has chosen not to give it life support and so has more human rights, enough so that a woman can’t say no to life support.
I guess, maybe, women are somewhat luckier here, in that a heinous rape is considered bad, after obligatory victim blaming not limited to discussions of the victims mood, previous sexual relationships, state of intoxication, wearing of feminine attire, being female in a place where males might frequent….
FUCK!
And where are all the ‘progressives’ that are supposed to rush in and accuse everyone who reports this of ‘Hindu-phobia’ and post-colonial hegemony?
After reading PZ’s post about “corrective rape” and then this, all I can say is I hate humans. We fucking suck so much.
Sorry for venting on your blog. I’m suffering from depression and feel pretty useless sometimes.
@Pierce R Butler
Ophelia quoted the article saying:
Your confusion was expressed thusly:
After persons were accused of the two rapes (the 2nd being on her way home from the police station to report the first), **other** persons close to the rape-accused then committed arson and murder. Those persons are now accused of murder, based on the girl’s dying declaration.
The usual Islamophobes would by now be chanting Nuk’em, Nuk’em.
As if that would help.
I guess milsson got caught up in traffic.
Anyway, they finally got here and bravely tackled ‘Islamophobes’ by being the first person to even mention islam here. I guess condemning a woman being raped and horribly murdered comes second in their agenda.
Well, Katherine, perhaps I did get stuck; if you are referring to me. It was late at night here, even later in India.
To me, condemning what you demand I should condemn is so self-evident that it would use up every breath to air constantly to repeat redundantly in front of this particular choir. But since that did not get across before: Of course I condemn it, as any respectable person will also condemn “lesser” forms of violence, bullying or sexism – it need not be “horrible” rape and murder to qualify and the instant case was totally over the top. I don’t really have to tell you that, do I?
My point was that abhorrent sexual violence is prevalent not only under pretext of Islam but also other religions and “cultures”, but at least I much more seldom hear it condemned in those categories when it occurs in Hinduism, or USAcademia, for example. I simply tried, and evidently failed, to amplify JohnD’s point. Irony is hard to do.
Islam is not inherently much worse than other religions when it comes to misogyny, in my view, including Hinduism or Judaism for example, or what can occur in any cultural environment. But to some people, hating the religion takes over hating the criminal or hating the crime, while rooting for genocide as retaliation.
Moderation can also be very difficult, apparently.