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  • Originally posted by Double Edge View Post
    What you're talking about is retribution, lets call it that instead of justice.
    I call it pest control. I have absolutely no desire to torture these fucks. I just want to put a bullet in their heads and move on.

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    • DE,

      I dont think you understand these people at all. Its not about wether they were scared of the law or being caught? They just didnt care. They tried to torture the girl and the boy, and then they dumped them, because they didnt care. They are evil, they deserve no mercy. Some animals need to be culled, and they are them. Personally, I dont believe in death for Rape, but this incident is much more than rape

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      • Originally posted by Double Edge View Post
        Plenty of laws in India, enforcement of said laws isn't where it should be.
        Much more problematic than law and enforcement is Indian culture...

        Where have India's females gone?
        September 11, 2013

        The New Delhi rape case left the whole world wondering why India is treating its women so badly. In fact, discrimination against women already starts in the womb: India has some of the most distorted sex-ratios in the world. There are regions where fewer than 800 girls are born for every 1,000 boys. For many reasons Indian culture prefers sons. An expensive bride-price, or dowry, is only one of them. So day-by-day, thousands of parents circumvent rarely enforced laws and have their baby daughters aborted after an ultrasound scan has revealed the sex of the fetus. It is estimated that India has been losing up to 12 million baby girls over the last three decades. I wanted to find out what it means for a society if such a significant number of women are missing.

        In one village just two hours drive outside Delhi, I met Narinder, a schoolteacher, and his family. He had three brothers and only one of them got married. There weren't enough brides, because the village has been aborting their daughters for decades. Narinder told me that he had already reached out to an agent who would find him a bride from afar. In fact, he planned to share this bride with his brothers. I felt sorry for Narinder, because he totally understood that his misery was due to the fact that his village has been actively selecting for sons. Still, in a quiet moment, he confided to me, that if his purchased wife would be pregnant, he'd make sure it was a son. I was perplexed. Everyone in this village knew it was wrong to prefer sons over girls, everyone experienced the problems firsthand. And still, like sleepwalkers, they continued their way, because culture dictates that sons are a blessing and daughters a curse. After the Delhi rape case, the whole world looked at India in disbelief, its urban middle class took to the streets. I returned to India to meet Shafiq Khan, a former Maoist rebel, who realized that violence is not the way forward. Shafiq now uses his wit and bravery to make inroads into rural India's patriarchal societies.

        We hit the dusty streets, down to Haryana where Shafiq introduced me to women who do not have a voice, women for whom nobody demonstrates. They are abused and raped and sold like cattle and nobody cares. They are called Paro, or strangers. They are the sort of women Narinder will buy -- those who make up for the scores who are never born. Akhleema and Tasleema, two sisters from Kolkata, were born into a poor family, before her aunt sold them via an agent to two brothers in Haryana, who could not find a bride. Within weeks, Akhleema was beaten so hard by her husband, that she lost hearing in her left ear. Both spend their time cooking, cleaning and tending the fields. They have no rights, no voice and, most shockingly: there is no way back. They have children with their men and it is culturally unacceptable to leave them behind.

        But where are all these trafficked women coming from? In a cruel paradox, it's the poor northeastern states of India, like West Bengal or Assam, where sex-ratios aren't that skewed, that make up for large parts of all the missing women. Assam is beautiful, even during the dry season. The Brahmaputra winds its way through the plains, quietly and peacefully. "But don't be mistaken", Shafiq says. Because during the rainy season, the river erupts over its banks, destroys fields and villages. In these already poverty-stricken regions, flooding takes away the little people have. Thousands of families are pushed into poverty and helplessness. They end up in flood shelters, vulnerable and easy prey for traffickers, like Saleha and her husband Husain. Their daughter Jaida went missing two years ago. They saw a man entering the hamlet and talking to Jaida. She vanished without a trace.

        In a remote village on the dusty floodplains we meet Halida. She had just turned 14, when a man kidnapped her while fetching water. For two days he raped Halida, told her that he would bring her to Delhi in order to sell her. Halida could escape, but now she cannot go to school anymore, because all the children know of the rape and tease her. The parents, day-laborers, cannot find work anymore, because they are ostracized by the whole village. The rape destroyed the family. While the trafficker may have lost his prey, it's unlikely that he will ever be punished. The police are corrupt and the more destruction there is, the easier it will be for him to find new victims.

        Thus closes a vicious circle in which millions of India's women are trapped. The prejudices against women are so deeply engrained in the cultural fabric, that only a combined effort, old and young, urban and rural, will be able to break it once and for all.
        Source: CNN
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        • Found the judgement and the sentence. Attaching as its not possible to directly link to the delhi court website.




          The perps did try to kill them, tried to dump them out the rear door from the moving bus, when the rear door would not open they pushed them out the front. Perps then tried to run them over. The male companion was able to pull his friend and himself out of the way and save themselves. At this point it seems the assailants sped away and left the two for dead.

          CCTV footage and the victims testimony helped identify the bus which then led to the driver and the rest of the assailants.
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          • Originally posted by Minskaya View Post
            Much more problematic than law and enforcement is Indian culture...


            Source: CNN
            True. Sometimes it really feels very frustrating as an educated person of this country to see what goes around. At the same time I do not see a clear cut solution.

            The only viable solution is to completely reform and rethink the education system. However, the education system itself in India is completely skewed and almost non existent at the level of villages. Moreover, while the overall focus of this thread is on rape, rape is only the extreme form of sexual violence. Sexual violence and sexual harassment is wide spread in India. The need of the hour is a nationwide introspection. Yet, all you will find is people complaining there should be more female police.

            Indians are not good at logic or introspection. I will not hold my breathe for a long term plan to deal with the problems.
            Last edited by classical1939; 15 Sep 13,, 12:00.

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            • Nirbhaya gang-rape case: Supreme Court stays hanging of 2 convicts

              What the hell is happening?
              Politicians are elected to serve...far too many don't see it that way - Albany Rifles! || Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it - Mark Twain! || I am a far left millennial!

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              • Four Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case convicts hanged in Delhi's Tihar Jail, victim's parents say justice finally done

                Out of the 6, 1 committed suicide in jail. 4 were executed today morning @ 05:30 hours IST. 1 was a juvenile at the time of the incident, but I pray that he meets the same fate, or even worse. The delaying tactics employed by the convicts lawyer and the convicts themselves dragged this case for so long. This case is done for now.
                Politicians are elected to serve...far too many don't see it that way - Albany Rifles! || Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it - Mark Twain! || I am a far left millennial!

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                • Originally posted by Oracle View Post
                  Four Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case convicts hanged in Delhi's Tihar Jail, victim's parents say justice finally done

                  Out of the 6, 1 committed suicide in jail. 4 were executed today morning @ 05:30 hours IST. 1 was a juvenile at the time of the incident, but I pray that he meets the same fate, or even worse. The delaying tactics employed by the convicts lawyer and the convicts themselves dragged this case for so long. This case is done for now.
                  Good. Bout time and should be done more often in more places.

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