Crime Gang rape of a tourist in India highlights its struggle to curb sexual violence against women

A Very Serious Cat said:
Did you get food poisoning? Every single person I know who has been got violently ill for a time while over there
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no, because i hardly had local. 100% only hotel restaurants where i'd get western or chinese.
only had local indian once and it was skewers which is as generically non-indian as possible. other people i was with were braver and even though they ate at supposedly high end places, they got the indian experience.
 
LeonardoBjj said:
BY SHEIKH SAALIQ
Updated 9:30 AM BRT, March 5, 2024

NEW DELHI (AP) — The woman in the Instagram video appeared shaken. Her face was swollen and bruised. Sitting beside her husband, she began recounting her ordeal.

“Something happened to us that we wouldn’t wish on anyone,” she said in Spanish, with captions in English. Her husband then said: “We were assaulted in the tent. We were beaten. They put a knife to our necks and she was raped by seven guys.”

In the video that has since been deleted, the woman said the assault on her and her Spanish partner — both travel bloggers — took place in a forest late Friday in eastern Jharkhand state’s Dumka district where they were camping on their way to neighboring Nepal.
The couple, who had been documenting their trip for more than 200,000 followers on an Instagram account, were found by a police patrol van which took them to a hospital, where the woman told the doctor she had been raped.

Police in Jharkhand confirmed the incident and arrested three men over the weekend. On Monday, police said they were searching for four more suspects.
The Associated Press generally doesn’t identify victims of sexual assault.

The case triggered a nationwide outcry over one of India’s rampant problems: a decades-long struggle to curb rising sexual violence against women.

Reports of horrific sexual assaults on women have become familiar in India, where police recorded 31,516 rape cases in 2022, a 20% increase from 2021, according to the National Crime Records Bureau.


The real figure is believed to be far higher due to the stigma surrounding sexual violence and victims’ lack of faith in police. Women’s rights activists say the problem is particularly acute in rural areas, where victims of sexual assault are sometimes shamed by the community and families worry about their social standing.

“Often, the victims are victimized further with insults, and it makes it very difficult for them to report the crime to the police. In such cases, women think it is best to keep quiet,” said Mariam Dhawale, a women’s rights activist and general secretary of the All India Democratic Women’s Association.

Rape and sexual violence have been under the spotlight since the brutal 2012 gang rape and killing of a 23-year-old student on a New Delhi bus. The attack galvanized massive protests and inspired lawmakers to order the creation of fast-track courts dedicated to rape cases and stiffen penalties.

The rape law was amended in 2013, criminalizing stalking and voyeurism and lowering the age at which a person can be tried as an adult from 18 to 16.

Despite stringent laws, rights activists say the government is still not doing enough to protect women and punish attackers.

“Often, investigations in rape cases are messed up by the police and timely evidence is not collected. These cases get dragged on without any convictions and the culprits walk free,” Dhawale said. She said convictions remain rare and cases often remain stuck for years in India’s clogged criminal justice system.

In the last few years, the conviction rate in rape cases has hovered below 30%, according to several government reports.

High-profile rape cases involving foreign visitors have drawn international attention to the issue. In 2022, a British tourist was raped in front of her partner in Goa. Earlier this year, an Indian-American woman said she was raped at a hotel in New Delhi.

In January, the Supreme Court restored life sentences for 11 Hindu men who raped a Muslim woman during deadly religious rioting two decades ago. They had been released in 2022, when they were garlanded with flowers by their families and a lawmaker from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party.

Last year, female wrestlers demonstrated against the head of the wrestling federation, accusing him of repeatedly groping women. After months of protests, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, an influential lawmaker from Modi’s party, was charged in court with stalking, harassment and intimidation. Singh has denied the accusations.

Dhwale said even though high-profile rape cases get media attention, a culture of downplaying sexual harassment and violence against women remains prevalent in India.

“We are continuously on the road to protest, sometimes to get a single case registered. It shouldn’t be like that,” she said.

https://apnews.com/article/india-sexual-violence-rape-b9016c82074c08583080db846d64055b
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dammit. i came in here to see a lego gangbang.

*walks away disappointed*
 
I watched their pod cast thing where they said what happened. It's fucking weird.

Why, only days after what must have been a horrendous assault, come out and tell the world what happened?

And then ask people not to blame Indians and claim there isn't a problem with mass rapes over there?

Either their brains are rotted with leftism or something doesn't add up.
 
The Big Yin said:
I watched their pod cast thing where they said what happened. It's fucking weird.

Why, only days after what must have been a horrendous assault, come out and tell the world what happened?

And then ask people not to blame Indians and claim there isn't a problem with mass rapes over there?

Either their brains are rotted with leftism or something doesn't add up.
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They could've been pressured by Indian govt officials but I don't think so. Maybe they're feeling bad about the backlash ordinary Indians are getting but I disagree with their comment that what happened to them 'could've happened anywhere'. India is way dangerous when it comes to rapes/violence against women.
I remembered the Swiss tourist gangrape incident shortly after the 2012 Delhi bus gangrape incident where the female tourist numbers dropped 35%. The Swiss tourist was also camping in the woods which is a bad idea. Foreign tourists don't realize that touching women is inappropriate in India and not responding immediately with a push/strike is like an invitation to continue groping or maybe they don't want to appear rude or starting a fight when they are on a tour. There is usually no good reason for someone to start following you and they should've shut it down earlier by telling him off to go away.
 
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nhbfan8080 said:
They could've been pressured by Indian govt officials but I don't think so. Maybe they're feeling bad about the backlash ordinary Indians are getting but I disagree with their comment that what happened to them 'could've happened anywhere'. India is way dangerous when it comes to rapes/violence against women.
I remembered the Swiss tourist gangrape incident shortly after the 2012 Delhi bus gangrape incident where the female tourist numbers dropped 35%. The Swiss tourist was also camping in the woods which is a bad idea. Foreign tourists don't realize that touching women is inappropriate in India and not responding immediately with a push/strike is like an invitation to continue groping or maybe they don't want to appear rude or starting a fight when they are on a tour. There is usually no good reason for someone to start following you and they should've shut it down earlier by telling him off to go away.
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Have you watched the video?

She was gang raped and he was made to watch. There is no "feeling bad for the Indian tourist trade"

As I say... it's weird
 
India is such a shithole.

Even the most naive of white female travel vloggers have sent out warnings about visiting that country alone…or in this case with some frail retiree who is probably 30 years older than the woman and is hardly a deterrent.

Even dude travel vloggers are creeped out by that place. My favorite Kurt Caz was even like “what happened here?”. Just a mosh pit of downtrodden humanity.

I think westerners get the wrong idea about it since Indian immigrants in their countries are almost uniformly middle to upper class and not dangerous and the cultural differences turn out to be more humorous than jarring.

Like their thrashing of public toilets, the needless haggling over everything, and the bobs/vagene. It’s all funny.

But actual India is a different story completely. Woman need not travel there.

Somebody posted a picture of the Brazilian woman from this story taking a picture with members of the Taliban a few weeks ago. Safer with the Taliban than in India
 
Kingz said:
Somebody posted a picture of the Brazilian woman from this story taking a picture with members of the Taliban a few weeks ago. Safer with the Taliban than in India
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Bro, wtf?
 
Joe said:
Never found india or indian culture interesting at all. Whats so interesting about it
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I don't know a lot about their culture or country, but I will say that I have found Indian food to be VASTLY overrated.

I know that is highly controversial, but I am willing to take a stand.

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(to each their own and all that.. only an opinion)
 
With what is know about this type of thing in India it's stupid for any woman to travel like that there.

This is that bullshit that women are told that they "should be able to go wherever they want" well of course in an ideal world they should. We live in a world that is very far from ideal.

Of course she is the victim and didn't "deserve" what happened. However you can put yourself in situation that makes the possibility of something much more likely.
 
A Very Serious Cat said:
Did you get food poisoning? Every single person I know who has been got violently ill for a time while over there
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LOL my little bro was, for a for a 2 month period, the only person in the UK with Typhoid which he caught (despite being within his inoculation period for Typhoid) when he was India. Granted, I think it was from contaminated water rather than food, but still.

What do you expect from a country where people wipe their arsehole with their left hand then rinse it in a communal water bucket...
 
USA!USA! said:
I don't know a lot about their culture or country, but I will say that I have found Indian food to be VASTLY overrated.

I know that is highly controversial, but I am willing to take a stand.

7l7axn.jpg


(to each their own and all that.. only an opinion)
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Yeah but I love usually how cold they keep their beer coolers......
 
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