New Delhi gang-rapist: She shouldn't have fought back

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By ASHOK SHARMA

NEW DELHI (AP) — One of the men sentenced to death for raping and killing a woman in a brutal 2012 gang attack on a New Delhi bus says in a TV documentary that if their victim had not fought back she would not have been killed.

Instead, the 23-year-old woman should have remained silent and allowed the rape, said Mukesh Singh, who was driving the bus for much of the time that the woman was being attacked.

Singh was among four men convicted and sentenced to be executed for the rape-murder - a crime that shocked Indians and prompted hundreds of thousands to take to the streets in protest. In response, India's government rushed legislation doubling prison terms for rapists to 20 years and criminalizing voyeurism, stalking and the trafficking of women.

Activists noted that Singh showed no remorse for the crime, and said the planned broadcast of his comments on Sunday would be an insult to the memory of the woman.

FULL story at link.



British filmmaker Leslee Udwin addresses a press conference on her documentary film "India's Daughter," about the Dec. 16, 2012 gang rape in a moving bus, in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, March 3, 2015. Mukesh Singh, one of the men convicted of raping and killing a woman in the brutal 2012 gang attack on a New Delhi bus said in a TV documentary that if their victim had not fought back she would not have been killed. The film will be shown on March 8, International Women's Day, in India, Britain, Denmark, Sweden and several other countries. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)


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[chervilant]

1. Women are working for the same rights we've been working toward

for decades now. It seems like for every step forward we gain, the sexists and misogynists--who are victims of the same oppressive patriarchy--push us back at least two steps.

[jtuck004]

2. Sounds like an administrator at some of our universities...

Also how the traitor Netenyahoo seems to feel about the U.S., Palestine, or anyone else in his way, but that's only tangentially related to the culture of puffed up men around the world who think they can get away with anything, eh?

[JI7]

3. The other side of "if she didn't want it why didn't she fight back"

Either way the victim is at fault

[tanyev]

5. Yep, that was my first thought, too.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

[groundloop]

4. What a totally fucked up thought process....