COUNTRIES: INDIA : CRIMES AND CRIMINALS: RAPE: Victims Blamed in India's Rape Culture

[David P. Dillard]

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COUNTRIES: INDIA :

CRIMES AND CRIMINALS: RAPE:

Victims Blamed in India's Rape Culture

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Victims Blamed in India's Rape Culture

By Ruchira Gupta

CNN

updated 4:28 AM EDT, Wednesday August 28, 2013

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/27/opinion/gupta-india-rape-culture

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(CNN) -- When I read about the rape of a 23-year-old photojournalist in
Mumbai, I thought, here we go again. On December 6, 1992, when I was a
29-year-old reporter covering the demolition of a mosque in northern
India, I was attacked. I wasn't raped, but my attackers sexually assaulted
and then tried to kill me.

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Someone dragged me to a trench outside the mosque and pulled my shirt off.
But a passerby jumped in, fought off my attackers and saved me.

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When I appeared in court to testify against the attackers, their lawyers
asked me questions that implied I was responsible. How could the daughter
of a good family have gone to cover the demolition? Did I smoke? What kind
of clothes was I wearing? Did I believe in God?

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The judge did not stop them. It was a demoralizing and toxic experience,
but one that is not unknown to women in India who choose to speak out
against sexual attacks. They are silenced by a process that heaps shame,
fear and guilt on them.

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In rural Rajasthan in 1992, a judge dismissed charges filed by a
low-caste, or Dalit, grassroots social worker, Bhanwari Devi, who said she
was gang raped. She had been campaigning against child marriage. A judge
said, "a middle-aged man from an Indian village could not possibly have
participated in a gang rape in the presence of his own nephew."

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A judgment like this not only deters other women from testifying against
their rapists, it also emboldens the attackers, who know that they will
get away with it.

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Most women say they would never tell the police about an attack, afraid
that they would be ignored or even abused by the cops themselves.

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The complete article may be read at the URL above.

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