I cannot believe that
in this 21st Century, we still have men practicing laws similar to
that which was practiced a few centuries ago. An unelected village council called
a “panchayat” made up of all male had ordered a 23 year old Meenakshi Kumari
and her teenage sister, 15 year old to be raped as punishment because their
brother ran off with a married woman. They are also to be paraded naked with
their faces blackened. A man is innocent until proven guilty, but over here,
the man who did the crime could not be apprehended and so they found the easy
way out is to grab the innocent next of kin to meet out the punishment. What
rubbish!!
Image above: The outraged ladies following the Delhi bus gang rape in 2012. Whole India was shocked by this incident. Barely 3 years later, in the same vicinity, this clowns in "panchayat" are imposing rape as a form of punishment. What is wrong with these people?
Amnesty
International
This outrageous order
was revealed by the Amnesty
International which confirmed that
the sisters and their family members have fled their village in the district of
Baghpat, outside of Delhi. Amnesty International has condemned this village ruling
and had started a petition on this subject.
The chronology of
event leading to this stupid form of punishment:
1. The two sister’s
brother, Ravi fell in love with a girl from a higher caste. Ravi it was reported
as being in low “untouchable” caste called the Dalit caste while the girl he
loved was from a Jat caste which is a higher caste. (Yes, these people
evidently still practice the caste system)
2. They were forcefully
separated by the girl’s parents due to this caste system where she was later
married off to another man in February.
3. The Jat girl escapes
from her in laws home and eloped with Ravi on March 22. Ravi's family are very concerned for the safety of this girl who is believed to be pregnant with Ravi's child.
4. Ravi’s family was
allegedly tortured by the Police and the members of the Jat community
5. The “Panchayat”, the
all men Jat village ruling then decided that the boy’s family should be
dishonored to avenge the brother’s deed.
6. The 23-year-old Dalit girl from Bhagpat
district in her petition to the SC has sought protection for her and her
family.
7. The girl in her complaint to the Apex court
has also mentioned that their family home in the village was ransacked and
taken over by the Jat community members following which they escaped to Delhi.
8. According to reports, the court has now
issued notice to UP government seeking its response in the matter within two
weeks.
I think these all male
village council are made up of sadists who are sex starved and are taking
opportunity to moot out this punishment so that they are able to see some young
flesh of the female gender. They are probably not exposed to uncensored
pictures of women and hard up for something to see. Oh, of course, while they are racists of practicing caste system, this is done
in the name of punishment so that the rest of the villagers do not deem them as
sex maniacs but as men of high integrity and values. Someone please call 911 to engage the firemen
to douse their sadistic sexual appetite.
For those who wish to
help the sister, Meenakshi to sign the petition, please do so at the given link:
This is a story about
a young Indian woman who was allegedly molested when she slept in the rooftop
of her home in Lucknow city, Northern India. After the attack, she turned to
the Red Brigade, a women’s group that helps victims of harassment and provide
protection towards young girls from sexual abuse.
In the video above you can see how furious the lady is towards the alleged molester
The Red Brigade
managed to track down the man who was accused of molesting and took him to the
alleged victim for him to apologize before surrendering him to the Police.
However, things didn’t turn out the way it was anticipated as the angry young
woman took turns to repeatedly slap him on his face while others looked on. He
was pleading and bargaining with her for forgiveness before she hit him so hard
until he fell to his knees. She continued to slap and beat him on his back
while scolding him with no mercy shown despite his pleas. While this was going
on, the council of the elders took their chairs and was seated and watched this
drama unfold.
Image above: The man pleads for forgiveness
Image above: The victim slaps the man
Image above: The man falls down after the woman repeatedly slaps and beats the crap out of him
In this case, the
damage was done and you cannot reverse the time. Otherwise, if this episode did
not unfold, the possibilities are probably she might live with the fear of men
who might chance upon molesting or hurting her again when she is alone or she
might just brush this incident as inevitable and thank God that she was not
raped. For men in general, or other would be rapists who read this news would
probably think ,well, this happened to that man and it would not probably
happen to me and still may proceed with their crime when the opportunities
arise. Overall, the impact is minimal but still the efforts of the Red Brigade
troop are praiseworthy.
Each day, we read a
lot of news coverage of incidents. Some are inevitable and it will happen no
matter what is done. Then there are some incidents that could be prevented.
Talking of prevention, Mr. Li, a street vendor from Zhongshan, South China saw
an infant dangling from a high rise building in a busy street.
He was there waiting
with his open arms to catch when the child falls. Several others also
participated by putting padding on the floor such as cardboards to cushion the
impact but this is a child who could not possibly survive the impact of the fall.
He said, “I didn’t think too much at the time, I was just afraid of failing to
catch him.
Image: Mr. Li and his friend reaches out as the child falls while the woman behind screams
Image: The child's hand could be seen close enough
Image: The child falling upside down
Image: Mr. Li successfully catches the one year old baby
This one year old
child reportedly climbed out of the window of a second floor window during a
storm. Local news reported that the child had stepped onto the latch looking
for the mother. Mr. Li, a street vendor who caught the baby says, “it was
nothing but just human instinct”. Congrats on the good catch!
Imagine finding yourself
in a circumstance that you are wrapped and suffocating in plastic. Well, that
was the worst nightmare experienced by poor Neysi Perez, 16 who woke up to find
that she is inside a coffin and already buried. She was found with bruises on her fingers and scratches on her forehead suggesting she had desperately tried to get out of the casket but didn't succeed in accomplishing this. She never really had the opportunity to experience the second chance that she had.
Image above: Neysi Perez, buried alive
What actually happened to Neysi
Perez that fateful night?
The married teenager
who was by then 3 months pregnant was said to have gone to the toilet outside
her home at La Entrada, western Honduras. She was reported to have fallen
unconscious in what was believed to be an apparent panic attack after she heard
a burst of gunfire. But, as she was seen foaming from her mouth, her religious
parents called for the local priest for an exorcism as they had believed she
was possessed by an evil spirit. The relatives narrated how the priest tried to
exorcise her but as she became lifeless, they then rushed her to a hospital
where she was pronounced dead 3 hours later.
Her grieving husband, Rudy Gonzales narrates…
She was then buried in
her wedding dress. A day after the burial, her husband, Rudy Gonzales visited
her grave where she was buried, the La Entrada General Cemetery. He said, “I was
heartbroken because my sweetheart was taken so suddenly from me.I
wanted to be near her. As I put my hand on the grave, I could hear noises
inside. First, I heard banging, and then I heard her voice. She was screaming
for help. It had already been a day since we buried her. I couldn’t
believe it. I was ecstatic, full of hope.”
The cemetery worker Jesus Villanueva heard some
sounds but chose to ignore it…
From this day on,
cemetery worker, Jesus will never look at screaming sounds lightly even if the
sounds are heard at the middle of the night. Jesus Villanueva said, “I convinced
myself that the screams were coming from somewhere else. I never imagined that
there was someone alive there. That afternoon, the girl’s husband came
begging me to get her out because she was still alive. He was hysterical. The
family were soon here and started breaking through the tomb, shouting her name.”
Image above: Family members opening the coffin
The family members tried to revive her but it
was too late…
Ms. Perez was taken to
the nearest hospital at San Pedro Sula still in her coffin. The medics tried to
revive her though all the tests that they carried out on her proved that she was
clinically dead. As Dr. Claudia Lopez narrated, “the whole family rushed in,
almost breaking the door down, carrying the girl in the casket”. She
told them to take her out from the casket and put her on bed. “Everybody was
claiming she was alive, so I went through all the necessary procedures. We
evaluated and tried everything but the girl was already dead. They put her back
in the coffin and took her away again, back to the cemetery.”
Her family members and relatives lament:
Carolina Perez, her
cousin said that,” Once we taken her out of the tomb, I put my hand on her
body. She was still warm and I felt a faint heartbeat. She had scratches on her
forehead and bruises on her fingers. It looked like she had desperately tried to
get out of the casket and hurt herself.”
Maria Gutierrez, Neysi’s
mother firmly believes that her daughter was buried alive and blames medics for
being too quick to sign her death certificate. The doctors declared her dead
but everybody else around me kept telling me that she wasn’t. She didn’t look
like she had died. Even after a day in the tomb, the colour of her body was
normal, her corpse didn’t smell, she just looked like she was in a deep sleep.
There were no signs of rigor mortis, her body was still flexible, it was
impossible that she had been dead for so many hours. We were all so happy. I thought I
was going to get my daughter back”
What the doctors believe:
Doctors believe that
Ms. Perez had suffered a severe panic attack which could have temporarily
stopped her heart activity. A second hypothesis is that the teenager had a
cataplexy attack which is an abrupt temporary loss of voluntary muscle function
typically triggered by strong emotional stimulus such as stress or fear during
which the victim maintains full consciousness awareness. She may then have died
from lack of oxygen after waking up in the closed coffin.
Image above: Neysi Perez
Conclusion:
What is the importance
of hypothesis when a life is already lost? No matter what the hypothesis is, when
a life is already gone, it is just too late to matter. It is easy to come up
with hypothesis when it doesn’t matter anymore. I’d rather if they know this
hypothesis by heart and know what to do when it ought to be done which mean preventing
a life from being lost in vain. A child never got to see the world because the fetus
was barely 3 months old. A potential father never got the opportunity to build
a life with his beloved wife because she left too soon in a way that will haunt
his feelings for a very long time until he gets over it. If the family members
did not think much of evil spirits, and rushed her to the hospital immediately,
perhaps the Neysi Perez would still be alive today. Anyway, it is too late for
now. Rest in peace, Neysi Perez.
