In Her Own Words
"All of them should be hung to death so that these criminals do not do any such acts to any other girls, which is inhuman. They are animal-like people. They should be burned alive."
"Six people raped me in turns for nearly one hour in a moving bus. The driver of the bus kept changing so that he could also rape me."
Jyoti Singh
Jyoti Singh was 23, training in physiotherapy to achieve her dream of a future in medicine. She was 23 when she was so horribly beaten and the methods her attackers chose to torture her so atrociously brutal that emergency surgeries had to be performed to remove 95% of her intestines. There was hope that she would survive her dreadful ordeal, but she died in agony thirteen days after the attack, in a hospital in Singapore.
She and her male friend had innocently enough boarded a chartered bus on their way home from a film viewing where "six or seven" people were also on the bus, posing as passengers. But then, Jyoto Singh and her friend, Awninder Pandey, were attacked. They fought back fiercely initially, hoping their screams would be heard and bring passersby or police to their aid.
No one responded, and their attackers continued to beat them mercilessly, and to rape her continuously. Five men and a juvenile have been charged with her abduction, gang rape and murder. Four of the men will plead not guilty, claiming to have been tortured by police to extract their confessions to the horrendous crime.
After the nude, beaten and bloodied bodies of the two young students were taken to hospital by dilatory action of the police and ambulance workers, a magistrate took Jyoti Singh's statement eight days before she died. Her mother present, Jyoti Singh described the dreadful ordeal she and her friend had undergone.
To the magistrate Usha Chaturvedi's query how she would like her attackers punished, she said 'burned alive'.
Little could the anguished, dying young woman have imagined that the lawyer for three of the men who brutalized, raped and murdered her would insist later that her attackers were innocent. And that she was responsible for whatever had occurred, through her unacceptably immodest behaviour.
Labels: Controversy, Corruption, Crime, India, Justice, Security, Sexism
posted by Pieface @ Saturday, January 12, 2013
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