Indian gang-rape victim cremated, was due to marry

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Indian gang-rape victim cremated, was due to marry

Published: 29 Dec 2012 at 13.46
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The victim of a gang-rape and murder which triggered an outpouring of grief and revulsion across India was cremated at a private ceremony on Sunday as it emerged she was planning to marry in February.

The unidentified 23-year-old, the focus of nationwide protests since she was attacked on a bus in New Delhi two weeks ago, was cremated at a ceremony kept secret by authorities only hours after her body was repatriated from Singapore.

The funeral pyre was lit after traumatised relatives and friends said their final prayers at a ceremony in southwestern Delhi, according to mourners who revealed she had been due to wed a boyfriend who was injured in the same attack.

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ploydonut
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Discussion 7 : 29 Dec 2012 at 19.477
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So sad. Because of this news my parent not want to send me to study in India now.
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Discussion 6 : 29 Dec 2012 at 19.176
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"Gang-rapes are a daily occurrence in India and many go unreported by their victims who have little faith in an often painfully slow justice system and are deterred by the response they can receive from male police officers."

Showing that mindlessly blind adherence to traditional cultural norms is often nothing but pure evil and a worthless excuse therefore.
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Discussion 5 : 29 Dec 2012 at 19.165
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Here is a chilling poem about rape by John Wilmot. (1600's) It gives an idea of how the poor young victim must felt before she was further assaulted by the iron bar, then mercilessly battered.
May she RIP. I hope her assailants are convicted and punished to the maximum.

“Now piercèd is her virgin zone;
She feels the foe within it.
She hears a broken amorous groan,
The panting lover's fainting moan,
Just in the happy minute.”
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Discussion 4 : 29 Dec 2012 at 19.094
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Ordinary capital punishment won't be enough for those savage animals, if caught.
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Discussion 3 : 29 Dec 2012 at 18.013
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This girl is the wake up call .Make an eaxample of these men and send a message that that old ways wont be tolerated anymore .
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Discussion 2 : 29 Dec 2012 at 17.092
Give them the same treatment they dished out. An iron bar straight up the shoot. Absolute scum.
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Discussion 1 : 29 Dec 2012 at 16.161
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I just hope that hell really does exist. The human animals that did this so richly deserve to suffer throughout eternity.
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