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A Swiss woman, center, who, according to police, was gang-raped by a group of eight men while touring by bicycle with her husband, is escorted by policewomen for a medical examination at a hospital in Gwalior, in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, Saturday, March 16, 2013.
BHOPAL, India - Police have arrested six men accused of the gang-rape of a Swiss tourist who was camping with her husband in an Indian forest in the central state of Madhya Pradesh.
All the accused will go before a magistrate on Monday, Dilip Arya, deputy inspector general of police, told Reuters. Police have also recovered the couple's valuables.
The assault on the 39-year-old Swiss woman on Friday night came three months after a 23-year-old physiotherapy student was gang-raped and beaten in a moving bus and thrown bleeding on to the street in a case that sparked outrage in the country. She died later in hospital in Singapore.
The latest incident has again turned the spotlight on the security of women in India, the world's largest democracy.
One woman is raped every 20 minutes in India, according to the National Crime Records Bureau. But police estimate only four out of 10 rapes are reported, largely due to victims' fear of being shamed by their families and communities.
The Swiss woman and her husband were touring the state by bicycle and were camping overnight in the forest. Arya told Reuters on Saturday that seven men attacked the couple in their tent and four of them raped the woman.
However, police investigation later found out that only six people were involved in the crime, he said.
Those arrested are identified as Baba, Bhuta, Rampro, Bishnu, Gaja and Nitin. They all aged between 20 and 25 years and belong to a local tribe known as the Kanjar, Arya said. They were also carrying a firearm.
No information was immediately available on the defendants' account of events.
The woman and her husband have left the state and are now at the Swiss embassy in New Delhi.
"A decision regarding the next steps to be made in the interest of the two concerned Swiss citizens will be made with them in due course," a spokesman for the Swiss Ministry for Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
After the physiotherapy student was raped and beaten in Delhi last December, millions of Indians took to the streets demanding the death penalty for her attackers and official action to reduce the number of assaults on women.
Four men and a juvenile are on trial for that attack. A sixth defendant, who police say was the ringleader, was found dead in his cell last Monday.
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Will the execution by hanging be televised live? That's about the only thing that will stop the gang rapes in India.
Easy fix:
CASTRATE THEM.
Yes ldo, Then hang them
As much as it horrifies and repulses me, rape (by itself) is NOT a capital crime. GANG rape is a coward's crime, acknowledging that no single one of them is capable of forcing a woman by himself.
If you want a punishment that will give the next macho bunch a caution, stand them up, naked, in the city square, on national television, while the victim uses tailor's scissors to cut off each one of their dicks. Don't even need castration, because they'll have nothing to rape with.
Wow, what's with the Indian rape thing lately? Too much Bollywood maybe?
Too many creepy horny slum dwellers all over the place...
According to Wikipedia..the Kanjar tribe "are reputed to have made a living by kidnapping, theft, prostitution, and other criminal activity"... I think it's time INdia does a little bit of ethnic cleansing!
Start doing a few amputation of the penis after trial and conviction and maybe this @!$%# will stop.
clarkjoebob,
"Start doing a few amputation of the penis after trial and conviction and maybe this @!$%# will stop."
I doubt that would work. There would just be a lot of Indian men running around with holes where their penises used to be. Maybe that would make them possible victims of rape, too. Other men would be after their holes.
You know what would cut down on the number of rapes?
For the Indian government to take the crime seriously and punish the males involved harshly.
You know the ONLY way the Indian government and Indian males will take rape seriously? If it cuts down their prestige in the world AND hits them in the pocketbook.
BOYCOTT INDIA. Don't travel there, don't buy goods from there.
Blame the criminals--
not the country*
99% of Indians are decent, law-abiding, people.
Even if you add up all the criminals, it would be a tiny fraction of the total 1.3 Billion.
The rate of rape incidents is actually lower in India, compared to many other nations.
There is crime--and rape-- in every nation on Earth.
The criminals will be given their trials, and then will be (hopefully) convicted and sentenced, according to the penal code.
Indian law is based on English law.
Rapists deserve to die.
Gang rapes are not common in India.
Yes, there have been two or three well publicized cases recently.
However, because they are unusual, bizarre incidents --the domestic Indian media outlets pick up the
story. In turn, the international media picks it up.
As an Indian woman, I feel safe walking through any village, town, or city in India.
You can not judge an entire nation based upon the actions of a few.
If that were the case, what should foreigners think about Americans???
If you look at the cases in the United States, with American criminals, you can see in recent months
everything from school shootings to pedophilia. Heck, there was even the white "cannibal cop" case.
You can not judge a country or culture based upon what a handful of criminals do.
You ought to judge a nation based upon what the majority of the people do.
99% of Indians wake up every day and work hard, and take care of their children and elders.
all the women over there need to be like that god they have with 8 arms to fight these injun rapist off.fn savages.skin em.
Thank you, wiseone-358999. You are well named.
Less thing be cut short, they will not repent... off with their heads.....
This particular news item will definitely hurt whatever tourism industry India might have been trying to develop.
wiseone - you've done this before. Stating how innocent YOU people are. So there is not enough indian women to rape, they have to rape TOURISTS? Yes that will help your image.
i never would have thought that guys in India where so dam horny that they would gang rape women.
The Indian says that India is going to be the next superpower where people have no food for eating, no water for drinking, no jobs after education (or a very few jobs compared to population), pathetic healthcare system etc. The so-called secular (sick-ular) Congress Party kept robbing and looting billions of dollars tax-payers money since independence. Their corrupted leader Rahul Gandhi says there will be more accountability and transparency but where was the accountability since last 65 years when his father Rajiv Gandhi, Grandmother Indira Gandhi and great grandfather Nehru were robbing the country? First they should return that money to the public then they should talk. They should actually be thrown behind the bars for their misdeeds. India should learn to provide the basic services to its 1225 million citizens first which itself is a real shame and disgrace in the entire world.
Indian Newspapers like the Times of India, the Hindustan Times and almost all other daily and weekly newspapers plus many TV Channels are no help at all. They are fake, phony, rubbish and corrupted. Most of those papers sells their articles, and publish and display custom made news reports in exchange for money. All the reporters are corrupted and one can buy them to publish/display whatever the crook wants public to read about the criminals and corrupted individuals including evil politicians, movie stars, rogues, criminals, murderers, rapists, police officials, terrorists and other bad elements. Indian newspapers are a big part of the problems in Indian societies.
India is a wonderful country on mother earth no doubt and the general people of India are among the best in the world but the evil politicians, police officials, bureaucrats and judges who are running India are the real enemies of that superb land. Each and every one of them must be eliminated for India to have real peace. Indians have the brain powers, culture, traditions and excellently tolerant religion in place but, as long as those rogue elements are in power and not eliminated, India will never prosper, progress or will be peaceful at all and innocent people will continue to suffer and endure pain.
India must keep their young and old girls/ladies/women's inside their houses for now as evil sex-maniac perverts and criminals are everywhere outside on the streets and prowling! Those beasts have ruined the 10,000 years old reputations of India - a wonderful spiritual country on the planet and there is no other country like India on earth. What a shame and utter disgrace indeed!
BF100, it's too bad you used such inflammatory crap in your post so that very few will consider you credible at ALL. Had you stuck to the facts of which you definitely have some, you might've had an informative post. Evil, beasts, outside everywhere, etc., all serve to reduce your influence to ... zero. Try a different style, you clearly have the education to do so!
The Indian apologists here live in la-la land. India has a weak, disinterested central government, spending little on infrastructure. It is a caste-based society (despite the Constitution), in which a relatively small middle class is built on the backs of a much larger, poverty-stricken population. Look at how the government reacted to its deaths in the tsunami. "So what."
Of concern to the US is India's delusional belief that it is a superpower. With runaway population (and no efforts at birth control) and relatively few natural resources, we should all be alarmed that they are buying the instruments of strategic force projection--aircraft carriers, submarines, ballistic missiles. We have chosen the strategy of appeasement, but the fact is, this is a wildly unstable, desperately poor country, a violent one perpetually in armed conflict with all of its neighbors.
India's corruption is, however, world-class, with corrupt politicians, corrupt police, corrupt civil servants. And for the person claiming that Indian rape rates are low--perhaps this is due to the corrupt police, the presumption of guilt of the woman, the awful court system (in which even low-level criminals can wait months or years for arraignment, much less trials), etc. This is, after all, a country where women are still burned if their dowries are inadequate.
Don't believe me? Go visit. Be prepared for some of the best people, but one of the worst countries on the planet.
Be sure to get your shots first.
No excuse for what is happening in India, but we should be cautious in our casting stones at rapes in another country when per capita the US ranks #1 according to CDC/WHO data!!
The author should post the appalling US statistics so people have something to compare. That said, westerners have grown naive in thinking that the rest of the world is a warm and fuzzy place that will keep them safe and secure. Other countries have the same or even worse problems than developed nations, so if you visit somewhere be prepared and don't expect any sympathy from those in authority in these places.
When will people learn to stay away from from these turd world @!$%# holes?
Stats are from the CDC. I added a link to the stack of data but I guess NV doesn't like pdf links these days.
http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/sexualviolence/index.html
The US has more instances but the US also actually does prosecute, where many 3rd world countries view women as property and they don't consider it possible for a woman to be raped by her husband.
Hey Mike, your Copy/Paste function isn't working so well. Let me help you out. You missed the disclaimer at the top somehow:
UN Rape Statistics
This list[5] indicates the number of, and per capita cases of recorded rape. It does not include cases of rape which go unreported, or which are not recorded.[6] Nor does it specify whether recorded means reported, brought to trial, or convicted. Nor does it take the different definition of rape around the world into account.
Showing latest available data. Rank Countries Amount (top to bottom)
The author did provide this statistic for us though:
NP
First hang them by their balls and ding dings then the real necks until lifeless. They most likely will be made an example of for attacking and raping tourists. India cannot afford to lose their tourism base which is already feeling the repercussions from lawless gang rapers.
Thanks Richard, The disclaimer states much of the obvious when per capita data is discussed, but always good to include. Even tripled the US still has more rapes than India.
Again, not that I am in any way defending what is going on in India, but it's like reporting on a kitchen fire in the house next door and not even mentioning the house your in burning down.
A rape every 20 minutes! Damn, what the hell is wrong with the men in that country?! They must be absolutely TERRIFIED of women.. It's obvious they are raised to detest, brutalize and hate women! I mean, women have always been second class citizens in India, and it's only been in the last few years that Indian women have begun to fight for their individual rights.. But, those rights evidently go against the grain of the men since, before this century, women have always been under the foot of the dominating males in the family! So now India's loosing it's male dominated society and this just puts the fear of God in them so they take it out on women by raping and murdering them! Disgusting! Want to bet these guys and the other guys that murdered that young women a few weeks ago get away with it?
One thing is for certain, if you're a women, be smart, stay far, FAR away from India!
BF100,
You just described the American Democratic Party perfectly.
ldo
If found guilty I hope they what ever Indian justice can do to punish them. They would deserve it.
Ido, I think it's funny how you are such a defender of the US Constitution when it serves your agenda. The 2nd amendment is great but to you 8th amendment, not so much. I realize this is about an Indian case, but somehow I think your opinion would be the same were it an American one.
Mike_P101 - did you not catch the part where 1.9% of Indian women reported being sexually assaulted in the prior 5 years? That would be more than 10,000,000 women assaulted in the past 5 years
OR MORE THAN 2 MILLION ANNUALLY.
Compared to our "#1" spot...
...Perhaps India is just sweeping it under the rug again by not reporting to the UN/WHO?
3 girls found dead in India well; mother calls for culprits to be hanged
By Harmeet Shah Singh, CNN
February 21, 2013 -- Updated 1412 GMT (2212 HKT)
New Delhi (CNN) -- The mother of three girls who were found dead at the bottom of a well in western India after they were allegedly raped has called for those responsible to be caught and publicly hanged.
The bodies of the three girls -- aged 6, 9 and 11 -- were found in the well in Bhandara district in Maharashtra state on Saturday, police said.
3 girls found dead in India well; mother calls for culprits to be hanged
By Harmeet Shah Singh, CNN
February 21, 2013 -- Updated 1412 GMT (2212 HKT)
New Delhi (CNN) -- The mother of three girls who were found dead at the bottom of a well in western India after they were allegedly raped has called for those responsible to be caught and publicly hanged.
The bodies of the three girls -- aged 6, 9 and 11 -- were found in the well in Bhandara district in Maharashtra state on Saturday, police said.
Ebeneezer, I agree that India is likely sweeping it under the rug. My point is that WE in the US have a huge rape problem ourselves and while it is important to discuss goings on in India the US media is greatly ignoring or worse promoting the massive problem in the US.
Ex. Two young men were just found guilty of raping an underage girl in the US. Their sentence 1yr and juvenile detention. The media greatly sided with the young men as victims because the young girl was drunk!
Also not much media attention about another young girl who was not to long ago gang raped at her high school in Chicago if I remember correctly, but may have been elsewhere. Even when the young lesbian woman who was gang raped in DC it didn't get as much press. We need to let the people from India worry about fixing their own mess and put effort into cleaning up our own before we become a 3rd world country like they are.
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/14254019-media-emphasizes-rape-victim-drunk-in-ohio-case-opinion
http://sflchronicle.com/news/2012/01/18-year-old-girl-raped-beaten-by-6-men-after-being-denied-entry-to-concert-new-years-eve/
Ah, the civilization that brought us all the caste system. Who'd have imagined they'd be capable of such incivility.
Babu, I'm talkin' at you.
Ed,
"Babu, I'm talkin' at you."
Do you mean Babar the Elephant? Is he Indian or African?
No.
Babu was Yoggi Bear's small friend.
Get it right.
Blame the criminals, not the country.
There is crime in every nation on Earth.
Oh wiseone; brilliant statement, you have an incredible grasp of the obvious. Do you have a mirror on your desk so you can watch yourself type this drivel?
Well, Hank, considering all the comments to the effect that "India is a craphole filled with criminals" here, I'd say wiseone has a good point...
thank you
I thought Babu was the Indian guy on Seinfeld.
It's easy to say "blame the criminals, not the country": But if the country's government, law enforcement, and society at large don't take the problem seriously enough, how can you leave them out of the blame?
wiseone - i don't he meant that seriously.
Exactly right, yamdigger. If it's acceptable in Indian culture by not being punished, and generally no one in the culture raises a serious stink about it, then that culture has to accept the world's condemnation. I check almost every product I purchase for country of origin, and will no longer purchase clothing, shoes etc made in India.
Casteism is the mild Indian equivalent of slavery in the US.
Hey Fox the us banned slavery about 150 years ago, the caste system is still in place in India. Old wise woman and the stats don't mean a thing. In a country whose familys will disown a daughter that has been raped, how many rapes do you think go unreported?
I know there is a very wise Indian troll who post under 1,000 aka's, esp. in CNN - Discus blogs as Anti-AntiUSApropaganda and claims to be American there. He sometimes post in another aka to give himself likes and a pat on the back, like OH, you got such a good point, blah,blah, blah.
Looks like the young Indian men have a thing about gang rape. I guess we do too, especially among high school football players.
As long as a culture (including the culture of high school and college athletics) values males much more than females, there is danger for women and girls.
Danger that they'll be harmed. Danger that they'll be blamed.
No--
You are wrong.
There are 1.3 billion people in India. If some low-life scum does some criminal act in the US, do you feel responsible? Do you feel like you have the same morals as a ghetto gang member who shoots someone?
There are mass shootings and worse going on here in the USA. Does that make every American a criminal?
wiseone, I'm like you, I do believe I could walk any street in NY, LA, Chicago and all points south at any time day or night and be perfectly safe. Not, I'd be dead in a heartbeat and I'm sure the same applies to just about all countries in the world. So, I guess I'm saying I don't believe you.
Oh, wiseone, I enjoy so much of your captivating dissertation as Anti-AntiUSAPropaganda in the CNN-Disgus blogs. I encourage readers to also go there and check out his oh-so-human yet so witty so sincere, yet so eh, eh.............. Eh, go check him out.
Sometimes he also does some Conjuring, like a Cat. And gives himself kudo and likes.
In no way am I am condoning what happened to these 2 tourists, however, what were they doing camping out in the forest in a developing country. Very irresponsible on their part to put themselves in harm ways. I have travelled to many parts of the world as a single woman and never came across any problems, because I took as many steps to try and make sure not to put myself in any compromising positions but still have an enjoyable time learning the local cultures and it can be done.
bull$hit
Uhhhhh....
India is NOT A DEVELOPING COUNTRY.
Maybe Istanbul or Acapulco should be on your next "visit" list.
Tourists bike & camp in the hinterlands for two reasons.
1. After the cost of the airfare, they can't afford to stay in hotels.
2. They want to see more of the "real" country than just a handful of tourist traps.
tforu.......your clueless. Just because you have never had problems (being of course the world traveler you are, LOL ) its not your call to say they where being" irresponsible". Things can and sometimes do happen, events can be beyond our controll. So if you should become the target of some crime I suppose we should just assume you put "yourself in harms way".
Heads up Iforu. Your self righteousness, stupidity and lack of compassion puts you at the bottom of the food chain.
What they were aSKING FOR seemsd to have been A FEW MOMENTS OF QUIET AND PEACE AND beautiful memories.
One no longer needs to wonder about this country's cultural hatred of females.
my same lack of sympathy for rapists also goes to the two football "heroes" who wept huge crocodile tears --for themselves -- when they were sentenced. . AS for the cretins who photographed the helpless victim while she was bring abused and sent it out on the internet, have them registered AS SEX OFFENDERS along with the rapists -- because they are sex abusers.
If you are not part of the solution, you ARE the problem.
The cause of crime is criminals.
Victims are not to blame.
I'm glad you were never victimized, but if someday you are, maybe you'll learn compassion for others. But I hope no one reacts to any crime against you by even hinting that you deserved it.
There's always a detached arrogant braggart ... nothing bad ever happens to me because I'm so smart ...
You're just lucky.
I have a good friend who's been to India three times. The first time was Hell. The second time a little better. The third time was OK because he'd met people and knew where to go, stay, etc. and knew all the BS that Indians put on foreigners. Apparently, however, the world is becoming a more dangerous place by the minute.
Learn how to protect yourselves in armed and unarmed combat. When people start killing rapists and other violent criminals, things will start to turn around.
tforu,
These people were simply exploring India in a way that would give them a more personal experience than anything you have ever done. The actions of these slime balls put an end to their adventure, but it does not make them foolish for their chosen itinerary.
I have spent a lot of time in Egypt, and made it a point to mingle with the true Egyptian people. Not the hawkers at the Pyramids, but the poor and simple folks that are the backbone of that country. I was exposed to greater risks than you would ever face, but I made many wonderful friends among people that you would probably shun.
I only hope that this couple recovers from this injustice, and are able to heal from the emotional damage. May their adventurous spirits continue to shine for the rest of their lives.
Tforu
Staying at multiple Holiday Inns across the globe is not exactly exploring other cultures...
Maybe most rapists find you and other fat sweaty women distasteful.
fu$k'n dot heads need to be castrated.
So a photograph of the victim is published but no photos of the accused?
Sick
And she's covered from head to foot so that she won't be "shamed"? I hope she recovers to the point where she can stand in public and say "I was the woman they raped. It's their shame, not mine. They are the shameful ones. Look at them."
Some fools may even wonder how she was dressed to start with.
A woman should not have to be covered from head to toe with heavy garments to be safer around males. Men are supposed to be raised to control their own behaviors.
If the sight of a fetching ankle - or an entire naked body - so inflames them that they act like cats after a female in heat, then they (the males) are the ones who should have the time and circumstances in which they may appear in public restricted.
Maybe they could wear garments that would impede their ability to rape. If they're so lacking in self control, they can hardly be considered men. Real men would shun such perverts.
And again the spotlight doesn't pick up so much on the low-life of the men of India. The sentence suggests that the security of women is the theme, and not so much that the men need to quit their raping and apparent feelings of entitlement to commit rape.
At least the police did a better job of responding to this than the local police did with the three girls murdered last month: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/21/india-violence-rape-murder-girls
It's time for foreign businesses to consider relocating their call center's and other assets out of this land of pack rapists. The whole country is a cesspool.
Are you kidding..? The reason they outsourced those jobs to India is MONEY! No matter how many gang rapes and other horrendous crimes occur there, the ONLY reason American companies moved those jobs there is because it's cheaper. The "bottom line" ALWAYS wins in the soulless corporations that those morons on the Supreme (sic) Court still say are "people."
Blame the criminals
not the country--
99% of Indians are decent, law-abiding, hard-working people.
are hyenas or rats....
wiseone - there you go again.
I would also like to add - coming soon to a city near you. The men get HB1 visas and bring EVERYONE over HERE. So watch out. They can't control themselves at home, what are we to expect HERE!?
YES to JOCKMAMA and TEXAS GRACE! America needs to think long and hard about importing people from these countries they know nothing about; but the almighty dollar is supreme, so yeah here they come. So many were arrested on To Catch a Predator, in Silicon BollyWood. :-)
Fast track court and fast track hanging.
Wherever you go in this world of ours men don't respect women's rights. And in many cultures women are considered the evil ones for 'seducing the men' and jailed, stoned, or killed for 'causing the rape'. That is indeed why in religions and cultures they wrap up the women to hide them 99% to cut down on desires and hence rapes. It doesn't work.
If males lack self control, maybe they should be the ones who wear special garments to impede their ability to rape. They could be fined or beaten of they go out in public without the 'proper' garb.
Seems only fair.
People of wealth beware. Poor people all over the world are sick of your sh!t. They will, rob, beat, rape, kill, torture and eat you. Worldwide class warfare is coming. Eat the rich!
Spoken like a true German (1936). Maybe this woman was poor. Or perhaps the Indian woman who was raped & later died was poor. Women in India experience rape every 20 minutes. Most of them are probably poor. How do you read class war in this act of violence, idiot?
Time warp much?
Hey Carl, stfu. You're a Chicken @!$%#e at heart, hiding behind your keyboard.
Chicken @!$%#e??? Birds of a feather flock together. If rich people can export jobs to India exploiting poor people which is basically what the majority of outsourcing is, then why can't poor people exploit the rich since the rich are just as much a human resource as anyone else is to exploit? Therefore, isn't class warfare nothing but just being equal and fair? Aren't cannibalism, rape, beatings, robbery and other forms of crime just exploitation by another name and merely equal to exporting jobs to India?
Question: lump it together and what do you get?
Answer: "Chicken @!$%#e!"
Who or what is the real culprit? Is the problem men, or is the problem due to contemporary humanity's anxiety???
Remember the Alamo? For Indians, it might be remember the Union Carbide/Bhopal pesticide gas leak in India in 1984 which has been considered the world's worst industrial disaster?!!
The Bhopal gas leak incident might have triggered a crushing of people's hopes and a pessimism about the future which women being the source of children who are the hope of the future symbolize. Just maybe people still feel bitter frustration due to Bhopal disaster and take it out on Westerners and on women through rape--as a psychological neurotic karma transference or catharsis--just like a person's troubles might lead to them killing, torturing, and committing cruelty to small defenseless animals or lead to some syndrome similar to the Bate's Motel or Jason Friday the 13th themes.
Nice country you have there India.
We're not much better...murder by gun violence is worse here than it is in India.
Probably should clean up our own back yard before judging that of another country no?
Yea--like there is no crime right here in the good 'ole USA--
sarcasm
Because they are TOO POOR to afford anything more than ... (well) body parts to attack people.
wiseone - are you here on a visa? Tech company?
Texas grace, you go too far. When you're here, you're effectively no longer in the state of Texas, so be careful with your choice of language.
I nice touch would drag all 6 behind a couple bulls through the streets and countryside for a few kilometrs stop let them heal for a couple months and then do it again
now thats an deterant
I dunno, even if some wild woman wanted guys to take turns on her I would not join in. I can't understand this sort of thing.
you watch to much porno right ?
Dude...that's a little bit too much imformation there. It's getting creepy.
The situation has been discussed many times in many different articles coming from different sources. This particular woman was camping with her husband, and many others like the one at Indian capital, was taking a bus with a male companion. In between these, many more take to the news and many more are silenced by family (unless the brutality or murder cannot be silenced).
Do the world see a problem here? Yes, and India is a country for tourism to avoid.
Personally, I have been to India countless times, not only to Delhi, Madras, Calcutta, Mumbai but all the major cities many times because of my job. Unfortunately, a culture that has brought so much wisdom and metaphysical knowledge to the world, face a serious moral and cultural problem. Maybe a few decades of sexual repression, processed into an extensive and ancient culture used to openly express human sexuality and weakness, might have caused an extremely dangerous tidal wave. One even more dangerous than the last tsunamis of Bangladesh and Indian coastal cities. Again, if tourists cannot feel safe either in cities or out in Nature, India has become a place for tourism to avoid in the next few years. Maybe soon Indians will come to terms between their own ancient culture and the new cultural waves breaking on their shores.
lilyrocks: India does not have a CULTURE, it has a multitude of cultures. I used to work for the Bombay Free Press, the owner editor was a Hindu. In some parts of India the favorite way for a man to divorce his wife is a can of Gasoline and a match. The so called NEW Cultural waves you write of have been crashing on India's shores not just for decades but Centuries. Many cultures have invaded India over several Centuries, leaving their own cultures behind. Rapists are nothing more than Cowardly PUNKS. I do not consider a rapist as a man, he is something that would make a Sewer Rat Throw Up. Such a creature does not deserve to live.
India should apply enormous pressure on all its people making it a shameful act of the rapist NOT the victim of the act. If the community and TRIBE to which the rapists belong would treat these men with great SHAME and if the tribe to which these men belonged experience EXTREME SOCIAL OSTRACIZATION by other communities and the larger social community of India in general, than I am sure the occurance of rape (within a society of a history of castes & prohibition of crossing over one's caste) would greatly lessen. The key to preventing rape in India is SOCIAL EMBARASSMENT, not merely arrest (which obviously is NOT working.) As it stands now, considering the frequency of occurance, rape is condoned (maybe even secretly admired) by some groups of Indian men, while the female victims are the ones who are shamed. Arrest will not solve this problem. RAPISTS (& their communities or tribes & families) MUST BE PUBLICLY SHAMED THROUGHOUT INDIA. (The nerve of brazenly raping a foreign tourist traveling with her husband has taken this too far.) These Indian men certainly DON'T fear authority. They must be forced taught to respect other individuals.
No wonder why India become so poor and OVERPULATED, the estimaded census tell us India will be over pass China in population in 50 years or less, a low culture whit no brakes, moral and weak governmet whit tie hands, I imagine now how many MILLIONS of mens and woman are born every day because a rape, I'm sure some of the offenders are born in this way and fill not shame for his acts because is cultural accept. Otherwise people for other cultures need act smart and don't go to this WILD places inprotect, putt in risk his integrity in the hands of predators
I suspect the men in india are addicted to viagra.
We have more Rapes in the USA and we have less people. Anyone convicted of Rape should be castrated world wide including this Country
The difference, of course, is we don't condone it like the Indians. Take part in an American gang-rape, and you can kiss your best years goodbye.
That, my friend, is a ridiculous statement.
Rape is against the law in India.
No person condones it.
In fact, the punishment according to the penal code is severe.
When someone is sent to jail there, it is not a cake walk.
Indian law is based on English law.
@wiseone:
No piece of legislation has ever sent a person to prison in all human history. It is the actual enforcement of said legislation that does the job. It's all well and good that an activity is outlawed; but if the population at large doesn't see the crime as a really bad thing, Actual incarcerations for the crime is going to be spotty at best.
wiseone - i do not believe anything you say.
Indian law is based on English law - for a reason!
they keep on doing it like idiots just like in the U.S. how could you be with anyone without knowing anything about them. one word animals.
I hope the rapists at least wore condoms, so she doesn't get a disease or pregnant.
I read an article where there was an issue with Western-made condoms fitting Indian men because the condoms were too loose fitting for many Indian penises.
Maybe India should import condoms made in China, but those might be too tight.
Castrate them...televise it.
"But police estimate only four out of 10 rapes are reported, largely due to victims' fear of being shamed by their families and communities."
And, therein lies the problem.
If it's a Muslim woman, she'll probably be killed because she got raped while the cops and perp have a good laugh over a steaming cup of camel urine. Here's the typical scenario ... Woman gets raped. Husband/family goes ballistic on her, she's "honor" murdered or arrested. If she's arrested she's also raped and tortured in prison. Then executed. The men might get a slap on the wrist. Family "honor" restored.
Isn't that heartwarming?
Non sequitur much, PH? Did'ja happen to notice that the names of all six perps were Hindi?....
1) India is multi-religious: there are Christians, Jews, Sikhs, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, etc.
2) Indian law is based on English law.
3) As far as victims feeling "shame"--this happens in many parts of the world. However, in India, times are changing.
Oh yeah - You know because this is the 21st century. You think? Or not - your choice.
As for feeling shame - not here!
Pray Hard - What the hell are you talking about? You are so stupid that you forgot that this article is about Indian men who gang-raped a Swiss tourist. Your attention span is so short that you cannot stay on the topic for a minute. As they say "You can cure ignorance, not stupidity". As I see it you are both a stupid and an ignorant. You could use some a$$ kicking...
Arrested? They admitted to raping a foreign national. Put a bullet in their heads and be done with it. Otherwise, tourists should stay way from this rape-loving culture. Let these soft on crime morons starve when the travel money dries up.
There is crime--and rape--in every nation on Earth.
Yes, even here, in the good 'ole USA
I can't imagine anything more embarrassing than being an Indian Man today!!! Can you imagine being filled with so much hate?!?!
What a silly thing to say!
Do you feel ashamed as an American because of what the Newtown shooter did?
Do you feel ashamed as an American because of what the Cannibal cop did?
Do you feel ashamed as an American because of what the street gangs do in the inner cities???
There are 1.3 Billion people in India.
As an Indian, I can say that I am not responsible for what some uneducated, low-life does somewhere.
If you want me to take responsibility for that, then you take the shame for all the s*** that the American criminals do, on a daily basis: mass shootings, pedophilia, serial killings, rapes, robberies, etc.
There you are again. Now your swearing. You must be angry. Glad you don't live in my city.
Wiseone has a point, grace.
How can we claim superiority over another country when our own people are just as violent, cruel, and greedy?
It's not like America is one giant Leave it to Beaver episode.
wiseone, Mr. Bubbles?
Hey! Where did all the Muslims-must-have-done-it people go now that all six perps have been identified with Hindi names?
*crickets*...
Hey Obama said they could of been one of His sons!!!
Aaaaaaand...right on cue, someone makes it about Obama! You do know there's medication available for your Obama obsession, right?...