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    Acid throwers should be shot. After a trial and conviction just take them out and fucking shoot them. Three years is an insult.

    'Millionaire' Acid Attack Victim Using Money for Surgery
    By DINA ABOU SALEM | ABC News – Tue, Dec 25, 2012

    'Millionaire' Acid Attack Victim Using Money for Surgery - Yahoo! News)

    Sonali Mukherjee, 27, the acid attack victim who went on India's version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" to win big, told ABCNews.com she plans to use her first prize money to finance more reconstructive surgery on her face.

    "My family is very poor," said Mukherjee, speaking to ABCNews.com Tuesday by phone from her home in New Delhi. "They paid all our money for my surgeries, and we had to stop my treatment."

    Nine years ago, when Mukherjee was studying sociology in the eastern city of Dhanbad, three fellow students whose advances she'd spurned broke into her room at midnight as she slept and threw acid in her face as payback.

    The attack left Mukherjee disfigured, blind and partially deaf.

    Nine years after the April 22, 2003, attack, Mukherjee decided she could no longer hide. She made a public plea to the Indian government last July for help in receiving skin reconstructive surgery. She also called for tougher penalties on her assailants, who were released on bail after serving three years in jail.

    Mukherjee went so far as to appeal to the government for the right to commit suicide (suicide is illegal in India), seeing it as the only way out of her pain.

    "I felt hopeless and helpless. I didn't want to live anymore. The conditions for my treatment were very difficult," Mukherjee told ABCNews.com.

    Soon after her plea to the state, Mukherjee started to receive some assistance. "I started getting phone calls and messages, and a lot of people came to help. … Now I feel there is some hope. … I don't want to die anymore," she said.

    In a desperate attempt to receive more funds, and perhaps feeling somewhat emboldened, Mukherjee became a contestant on "Kaun Banega Crorepati," the Indian version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," the same show that was the centerpiece of the 2008 Oscar-winning movie "Slumdog Millionaire."

    Mukherjee answered 10 questions correctly, and took first prize -- 2.5 million rupees, about $46,000 -- which will go toward her next round of reconstructive surgeries.

    Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan, the host of the show, called Mukherjee "the epitome of courage" when she won.

    India was listed as the fourth most dangerous country in the world for women -- behind Afghanistan, the Congo and Pakistan -- in a July 2012 survey from the Thomas Reuters Foundation.

    Sital Kalantry, an associate clinical professor of law at Cornell Law School, and faculty director of the Avon Global Center for Women and Justice, conducted a 2011 study on acid violence in Bangladesh, India and Cambodia, and reported that at least 153 acid attacks on women occurred in India between 2002 and 2010; 3,000 in Bangladesh between 1999 and 2010; and 271 in Cambodia between 1985 and 2010.

    The recent public beating and rape of a 23-year-old student on a New Delhi bus -- and the throngs of demonstrators who marched in protest across India calling for tougher laws against molestation and rape and the death penalty for the six suspects -- has brought unprecedented attention to violence against women in the country.

    As for Mukherjee, her stroke of good fortune on the "Millionaire" game show is only the beginning in mending a decade of pain.

    "I've had 22 operations so far and I need many more. … When I recover, I want to help people like me," Mukherjee told ABCNews.com. "I want to talk to foundations to help other victims of acid attacks. But I have to get better first.

    "I can cash my prize in two months," said Mukherjee, who said she hopes to return to university one day.

    "I was really close to graduating before the attack," she said. "Now I have a dream of going back to university and getting a degree and learning to do more on the computer."
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    Facially disfigured, blind and partially deaf.

    Three years for such a horrendous attack?

    Something is disturbingly wrong with India.
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    • #3
      Originally posted by Minskaya View Post
      Facially disfigured, blind and partially deaf.

      Three years for such a horrendous attack?

      Something is disturbingly wrong with India.
      Yes there is something wrong with the Indian judicial system but as I remember, you stated you do not want to cast aspersions against the country, India, itself. AFter all, in America, we have several shootings that have left many people dead, such as 20 children dead. Are you willing to go far to say that there is something wrong with America?

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Blademaster View Post
        Yes there is something wrong with the Indian judicial system but as I remember, you stated you do not want to cast aspersions against the country, India, itself. AFter all, in America, we have several shootings that have left many people dead, such as 20 children dead. Are you willing to go far to say that there is something wrong with America?
        Yes, America does have problems. However, had he not died the shooter you mentioned would have spent the rest of his life behind bars. Furthermore, when the sentence of a crime is thought to be too light there is intense outrage...not a shoulder shrug.
        Removing a single turd from the cesspool doesn't make any difference.

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        • #5
          The malevolence of this type of attack is hard to fathom. A sentance of three years sounds appropriate in a burglery or simple unarmed assault where the victim is recovers quickly. This type of attack is certainly attempted murder - and the injuries inflicted in this case are truely horific - it seems like life in prison (or even death) would be appropriate.
          sigpic"If your plan is for one year, plant rice. If your plan is for ten years, plant trees.
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          • #6
            Originally posted by Blademaster View Post
            Yes there is something wrong with the Indian judicial system but as I remember, you stated you do not want to cast aspersions against the country, India, itself. AFter all, in America, we have several shootings that have left many people dead, such as 20 children dead. Are you willing to go far to say that there is something wrong with America?
            Instead of putting phantom words in my mouth, I would suggest that you re-read my post. Clearly, I strictly referred to the judicial aspect...

            Originally posted by Minskaya View Post
            Facially disfigured, blind and partially deaf.

            Three years for such a horrendous attack?

            Something is disturbingly wrong with India.
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            • #7
              Originally posted by bonehead View Post
              Yes, America does have problems. However, had he not died the shooter you mentioned would have spent the rest of his life behind bars. Furthermore, when the sentence of a crime is thought to be too light there is intense outrage...not a shoulder shrug.
              Hey the shooter who killed two firefighters and expressed his desire to kill people was let off easily after he whacked his own mother with a hammer. You telling me that this one is different from the Indian Judicial System?

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Minskaya View Post
                Instead of putting phantom words in my mouth, I would suggest that you re-read my post. Clearly, I strictly referred to the judicial aspect...
                No you did not. You referred to India as a whole, not the judicial aspect. A big difference right there.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by USSWisconsin View Post
                  The malevolence of this type of attack is hard to fathom. A sentance of three years sounds appropriate in a burglery or simple unarmed assault where the victim is recovers quickly. This type of attack is certainly attempted murder - and the injuries inflicted in this case are truely horific - it seems like life in prison (or even death) would be appropriate.
                  I totally agree with you.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Blademaster View Post
                    No you did not. You referred to India as a whole, not the judicial aspect. A big difference right there.
                    I even bolded it for your express benefit. Try bifocals.
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                    • #11
                      In a large part of the world women are regarded as second rate. If you dehumanize another person enough, hurting him/her will have the same emotional effect as crushing an empty beer can.

                      That is a whole mentality that needs to be changed.

                      Even where I live (the Netherlands) we are not completely where we should be in that regard in my opinion.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Minskaya View Post
                        Facially disfigured, blind and partially deaf.

                        Three years for such a horrendous attack?

                        Something is disturbingly wrong with India's judicial system.
                        Sorted... can we carry on?
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Minskaya View Post
                          I even bolded it for your express benefit. Try bifocals.
                          Try again and this time follow your own advice. See what Doktor did. That would have taken care of the problem. You only bolded the second line which has nothing to do with India as a whole. Read the third line which you said India and nada zip after India, lending credence to the implication that you are stating India as a whole.

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                          • #14
                            So instead of discussing something important, namely, the way women are treated as second rate citizens in a large part of the world, it has turned into another nationalistic pissing contest...

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by FJV View Post
                              In a large part of the world women are regarded as second rate. If you dehumanize another person enough, hurting him/her will have the same emotional effect as crushing an empty beer can.

                              That is a whole mentality that needs to be changed.

                              Even where I live (the Netherlands) we are not completely where we should be in that regard in my opinion.
                              Despite the negative images by the gang-rape, women are not considered as second class citizens by the people of India. If they were, we wouldn't have mass wide protests in the capital of India threatening to raze down the presidential palace if no justice was done for the victim.

                              We wouldn't see howls of outrage in the Parliament about the inhuman treatment. It is not the people of India that treats women like second class citizens. It is the judicial system that is itself corrupted and its actions have left women feeling like second class citizens or cannot get justices. It is not confined to women either. Even men who have been raped or beaten up or assaulted are no better off than women.

                              After all, we have four powerful women leaders at the helm of states' affairs and two powerful national women leaders in politics, a former President that was female. In fact around 25 percent of the Parliament are females. So I completely reject your categorization and Yellow belly's as well that women are treated like second class citizens. They have the right to vote, to have jobs, right to drive, serve in the military and do many things that are not possible in other areas such as Saudi Arabia. The trouble is the Indian judicial system that seeks to get rid of problems rather than solving problems and that has led to this disastrous results where many rapists get off the hook. It is not only confined to rapists, but murderers, thieves, criminals, etc. The problem is that the rich and the powerful and those who have connections are either gotten scot free or the only ones who can make things go in a certain way.

                              I will tell you if that if the Indian judicial system was reformed, many of the rapists would have seen harsh sentences. After all, the law on the books do allow for stiffer sentences. It is just that the justices do not hand down stiffer sentences.

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