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From Feminist Daily News in the USA:
December-20-12
Indian Activists Protest Gang Rape
Protests erupted in India yesterday in response to a violent gang rape on a bus in South Delhi. Protesters, mostly students and women’s organizations, held protests in streets of the city of Delhi and demonstrated in front of the city’s police headquarters calling for new attitudes towards rape. Protesters who gathered outside of the home of Delhi’s Chief Minister were blasted with a water cannon from police forces.
On Sunday, a 23 year old medical student and her male partner was accosted while riding a bus in South Delhi. Both were beaten and the woman was raped repeatedly by four men. She has required multiple surgeries for head and intestinal injuries. A few days later, a 15 year old was raped in the northern state of Bihar.
Sehba Farooqui, an activist for Indian women’s rights, said “We have been screaming ourselves hoarse demanding greater security for women and girls. But the government, the police and others responsible for public security have ignored the daily violence that women face.” A student protester told reporters “We want to jolt people awake from the cozy comfort of their cars. We want people to feel the pain of what women go through every day.”
Media Resources: Times of India 12/20/12; International Business Times 12/19/12; New York Times 12/19/12
December 25, 2012: Gang rape protests continue in India as injured police officer dies in hospital. Authorities seal off high-security zone in New Delhi for a second day to put an end to a week of demonstrations against brutal gang rape of a woman on a moving bus. Read more: here.
Gang rape victim flown to Singapore: here.
India gang-rape victim dies in Singapore hospital: here.
From the Communist Party of India:
CPI CONDOLES THE DEATH OF POLICE CONSTABLE
The Central Secretariat of the Communist Party of India sends its deep condolences to the family of the police constable, Tomar, who died in hospital after the police clash with protestors. It is an unfortunate incident. While the CPI condemns the violence, it feels that the police could have shown more restraint.
The address of the Prime Minister came too late and was disappointing. The stress is more on peace than on the concrete steps to prevent the recurrence of atrocities on women or on the actions for security of women. This will not restore confidence among the people.
The statement of the home minister is irresponsible and provocative. People are not asking him to discuss with every rallyist while the whole nation is indignant and angry, while tens of thousands of young girls and boys are on the streets on a justified issue of security to women he makes a mockery of. The home minister of the country is expected to understand the agony and try to make efforts to create confidence among the people.
The home minister has to discuss even with insurgent groups to help solve the problems. We advise the home minister to control his anger, as it fuels the fire.
The suspension of police constables and ACPs has come too late. How about the accountability of the home ministry for its failure to provide equipment, finances and necessary staff to Delhi police?
Cases against Gen. V K Singh and Baba Ramdev are the signs of nervousness of the government. The attempt to stamp the spontaneous outburst of people to some individuals and hidden hand of political parties and attempt to find hooligans, cannot whitewash the general discontent of the people against the miserable failure of the government in maintenance of law and order in the NCR. The recent events once again proved that the UPA government has lost its credibility and the confidence of the people.
CPI demands that the government should take steps in the right direction to prevent violence against women, in place of attacking the protesters.
America’s Rape Problem: We Refuse to Admit That There Is One: here.
Related articles
- Indian policeman injured in gang-rape protest dies: official (dawn.com)
- India clamps down on gang-rape protests; PM appeals for calm… (reuters.com)
- Student stripped, whipped in India’s University despite huge protests against gang-rape in New Delhi (thenewstribe.com)
- Thousands protest in Indian capital after gang-rape (itv.com)
- Indian police close roads to prevent rape protests (cbc.ca)
- Gang Rape Sparks Massive Protest In India (huffingtonpost.ca)
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A tipping point! We are seeing many human rights tipping points across the globe…
I hope this will lead to anti-rape measures benefiting all Indian women; not just some publicity-surrounded trial only for the perpetrators in this Delhi case.
I share your hope! Special thanks to bloggers like you who keep the communication channels open so that the others can support the dialogue .
Thank you, Rebecca!
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I am so glad!!!
Let’s hope the ordeal this young woman suffered, her injuries, her death, brings a culture that values male children so much higher than females, leading to this outrage, to its senses so that it starts to reevaluate how to respect everyone regardless of class and gender.
Yes, I hope that the anti-rape mass movement wil lead to a stronger position for Indian women.
Arundhati Roy speaks out against Indian rape culture
The writer Arundhati Roy tells Channel 4 News she believes rape is used as a weapon in India and that women in the country are “paying the price”
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Five arrested after tourist is gang raped
INDIA: Police arrested five men today in connection with the gang rape of a Swiss tourist who was on a cycling holiday with her husband.
All five admitted to the attack on Friday night as the couple camped out in a forest in Madhya Pradesh state.
Police are looking for two more men thought to have been involved in the attack in which the husband was also beaten.
The 39-year-old woman was released from hospital on Saturday.
http://morningstaronline.co.uk/news/content/view/full/130697
Women’s rights group in Jammu
INDIA: Local women’s rights group “Mahila Morcha” protest in Jammu today against how authorities have handled sex crimes.
A second suspect has been arrested in the rape of a five-year-old girl who New Delhi police said had been left for dead in a locked room.
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/content/view/full/132044
CPI DEMANDS RESCINDING THE ORDER ON MUKESH AMBANI SECURITY AND MORE ATTENTION TO SECURITY FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN
At a time when the country’s police force is unable to provide security to its citizens, ensure safety for women, and even 4 or 5 year old girl children are raped under their very nose, the government has ordered Z plus security for the country’s richest corporate tycoon Mukesh Ambani and even protection for his sprawling residential building ‘Antilia’.
Under this security cover Ambani will have pilot and a number of follow-on vehicles with commandos armed with sophisticated weapons whenever he chooses to move out of his protected den. Round the clock, a 28 member team from the CRPF will be on duty for his security cover.
This is the first time a private person, because he happens to be an Ambani is being provided with such security for his person and his residence by a government which is failing everyday to protect the common man, especially women and children. It is matter of shame for this government and shows for whom it works. Mukesh Ambani has all the resources at his command to provide security for himself and his establishments.
Our Party demands that the government order be rescinded and the CRPF be sent back for their primary task.
http://www.communistparty.in/2013/04/cpi-demands-rescinding-order-on-mukesh.html