DAWN Raping the Rape Victim
Awab Alvi
"SIALKOT, Feb 9: Police have yet to arrest the second alleged rapist in the kidnap-cum-rape case of a bus hostess here in Sialkot, Dawn has learnt. Daewoo bus hostess A**** Q**** [censorship added] alleged that Irshad Bhatti, of Gujrat, along with Sarfraz allegedly kidnapped her late on Saturday and raped her. "
I do not know if the victim has come forth with permission allowing the Dawn correspondent to publicly use her name so explicitly and repeatedly so many times through out the column that it infuriates me -she has suffered enough of this heinous crime that it alone will take many years for her to recuperate the rape trauma - now adding fuel to the fire the public record and everyone even remotely associated with this 20-yr old girl will always brandish her name quickly linking her with the Daweeo rape victim - the pain which she will go through emotionally and physically is now going to be quadrupled to unimaginable proportions as she now will also tainted in the publics' eye too
Dawn and the Dawn group of newspapers must take this journalistic lapse very seriously and it must be condemned at all counts - a public apology must be issued and it may also stand to benefit that they be forced to print a series of columns on how to prevent / manage rape and its implications in the long run - this may serve as a public service giving us all a reminder to society that this crime may last for a fleeting moment but it leaves a life long victim in its wake
This email is being forwarded to the editor of Dawn and is being posted to blogs and spread to a large number of mailing lists - let this stand as public knowledge that such acts should not be tolerated and editors of such prestigious journalistic organizations. Must be mindful of such forms of reporting
Dr. Awab Alvi