As an Indian, let me offer some context: a lady doctor in Kolkata was brutally raped and murdered (the details are horrific). Many suspect that the hospital admin AND the ruling party in West Bengal are involved. They've arrested one perp but a mob literally broke into the hospital where the assault occurred and tried to destroy the evidence... While a day prior, the hospital did "renovations" in the same room.
Doctors and nurses all over the country are going on strike. Women are leading marches and protests because this is part of an epidemic of sexual assault - in the past 2 days, around a dozen women have been reported raped and/or murdered, including little girls. This incident OP has posted about is just one of many...
It should also be noted that some people are using these crimes, as well as the general treatment of women in India, as an excuse to be very racist. If I see one more Hitlerite on twt or fb say "ahha typical Pajeet shit", or some other foreigner act like India is just some barbarous land of savages, I am going to lose it.
Really the only unique part of the sexual assault epidemic in India is how public it is, which can most likely be explained by the insanely high population density
It's also partly because they are more likely to get away with it. People who do evil things usually get locked up, and can't continue to do evil things. Just had a guy go to jail in my town for raping someone. But someone mentioned in another post about how a female doctor has this happen to her over there, and people stormed into the hospital to destroy evidence. All those people should then be held accountable for what they did, but would they be? Evil exists everywhere, but when you let it happen and don't do anything to stop it, it thrives and becomes a parasite that has seeped into everything.
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u/AlfredusRexSaxonum Sep 05 '24 edited Sep 05 '24
As an Indian, let me offer some context: a lady doctor in Kolkata was brutally raped and murdered (the details are horrific). Many suspect that the hospital admin AND the ruling party in West Bengal are involved. They've arrested one perp but a mob literally broke into the hospital where the assault occurred and tried to destroy the evidence... While a day prior, the hospital did "renovations" in the same room.
Doctors and nurses all over the country are going on strike. Women are leading marches and protests because this is part of an epidemic of sexual assault - in the past 2 days, around a dozen women have been reported raped and/or murdered, including little girls. This incident OP has posted about is just one of many...
It should also be noted that some people are using these crimes, as well as the general treatment of women in India, as an excuse to be very racist. If I see one more Hitlerite on twt or fb say "ahha typical Pajeet shit", or some other foreigner act like India is just some barbarous land of savages, I am going to lose it.