I think five of you are in a prison somewhere in Delhi and may be one of you is still hiding somewhere..
Have you heard the news? I hope you did.. because the girl that you had your way with on the night of 16th December died this morning... fighting severe physical injuries, gangrenous intestines, multi-organ failure caused by infections... Did they tell you that she wanted to live, she was trying to communicate with her family as much as she could, she even gave her statement to the magistrate twice. She wanted to live and she wanted to complete her studies....
but you had some different plans for her? Why? and if I may ask you, in what capacity? Who were you to her? Did you plan this for months in advance? Were you looking for a victim to fulfil your own desires or just to take out all your frustrations arising from somewhere else?Why this girl? Why any girl, woman, human being? Why should someone else pay the price of your action? What is so special about you that a 23 year old had to sustain that brutal attack by you and in the end loose a battle of life?
Your actions as described by the media and as evident from the injuries the girl sustained make me feel that you were not human beings at least at that hour. I cant imagine a human being carrying out such mean, animal like behaviour What was it that fuelled your actions? What was going on in your heads? Did you realize what you were doing? Was it just to get some sexual pleasure? But how can you have pleasure by forcing yourself sexually as a group against a lone woman? Unless you are capable of deriving pleasure by inflicting pain on others... I really hope that you don't get a second chance at deriving such pleasure with anyone again...
My first reaction was that your actions were worse than animals.. but now when i think about it and as my brother brought to my notice, I am actually insulting animals by referring to your brutalities as animalistic instincts... I have not studied zoology in great details but I think even in animal kingdom, group of males don't assault a female with the brutality comparable to yours... nope, I would definitely wont call you animals.. that is really demeaning to the animal kingdom.
Were you intoxicated? I see you were definitely intoxicated by sexual desire but I am referring to substances, chemicals, alcohol whatever.... because even if you derive pleasure by inflicting pain on others, I cant understand what motivated you to repeatedly insert an iron rod inside this woman's body? Were your own personal weapons not capable enough to cause pain so that you would derive adequate pleasure? I really don't get this.. what were you thinking? and whose creative idea was this?
I am not sure if you guys knew each other before hand... because if you were not.. that makes me further surprised . I am trying hard to comprehend a situation where 6 men unfamiliar with each other sharing a ride in a bus somehow managed to communicate with each other in such an effective way in presence of this young woman and her male companion and you even succeeded in executing your plan.. We definitely need to learn your communication strategy.. that might help us communicate with millions of Indians who are outraged and upset right now, thanks to your deeds... I know this might endanger your life significantly.. but I am not so worried about that... and knowing the power of anger and sadness that is boiling inside me, I can only assess the cumulative power of similar emotions shared by millions of people like me... if we manage to communicate the same way you managed.. I promise you, you will have no place to hide, and no prison can keep you safe... so thank your stars that at this moment, we do not know how to communicate with each other... because the moment that happens... you will have hard time protecting yourself... and may be you need to experience that kind of vulnerability at least once in your life.. just to give you a perspective what that girl must have gone through while you were pounding at her, tearing her away bit by bit....
Do you have a family? Do you have friends? Do they know that you are behind the bars for this crime? Have they come to see you in the prison? What did they say to you? Could they even look into your eyes? Could they hold your hands, the same hands that forced a woman down and assaulted her... I don't know who all are there in your family but may be some of you have mother, some others might even have sisters, daughters some of you might even be married.. how was it for them to see you as the rapists? How was it for you to see these women in your relations after having raped and killed another woman? You know I am really concerned about the trauma that your mothers have to live with for the fact that they brought you in this world. I can only feel the pain of your daughters and the shame that they would carry in their hearts for you are their father... I can feel the disgust that your wives might feel for themselves that you were their husbands... You have not hurt and killed just one woman, you have killed millions of women, some in your own relations but more... thousands and thousands of women like me, who have nothing to do with you.. who have never seen you... so criminal charges against you are far more grievous than what you think... and trust me, we are all wondering.. what did we do to have men like you around us, among us...
May be you don't have a mirror in the prison.. that is good... because I don't know what will you see if you see yourself in a mirror? That might be a very scary and confronting experience for you... but you can look at some of your body parts... for example your hands, your legs, your torsos and genitals... how does that feel now in the light of your actions on 16th December .. Do you loath yourself? Do you feel ashamed? Any trace of guilt? Any slightest space for repentance? What about sadness? What about pain? May be some fear? Hope? I am really not able to assess your emotional landscape at the moment... I am having hard time to assess my own emotional landscape and my only relation to the event is being a coward, mute bystander, a silent spectator ... but you were the actors of the event, may be I should call you villains... and probably that has huge influence on your emotional landscape... I hope these days behind the bars will give you ample time and opportunity to reflect on your deeds and your life... I cant promise that it might help you in some ways... but who knows...
I hope you are in isolated cells in the prison... because if you are in one of those cells overcrowded with other criminals.. your lives might be in great danger.. but the fact that we have not heard about you being beaten to death by your fellow inmates tells me that your inmates do not know your true identity or they do not have access to news from outside world... but the prison officers know about you... and I am sure they are not treating you in very kind ways... I am in support of your own human rights as well.. even though I have often doubts to think of you as humans... so I really hope that you are safe behind those bars.... at least till the time the trial begins in the court and justice is made... I must be honest.. I don't believe that Indian society and the judicial system is capable of providing justice in this case... what justice means and how it should be reached is too complex a question and I have neither knowledge or expertise in this field to make a comment...
If you do not know, let me tell you the body of this young woman will be flown into Delhi this evening, government has put bans on any kind of protests..there is tremendous police force around the capital to prevent any form of protests... I guess they know what could happen if so many angry people gather together... but people are gathering together any ways all over the country , they are protesting in peaceful ways... there is a strong public demand that you should be given a capital punishment... and that too not after a trial that goes on for 25 years... there are strong slogans stating 'justice delayed is justice denied'.. there is another voice asking for hanging you till death in public place... people feel that way a strong statement will be made and that might deter similar incidences in future.... lot of people are also asking that you should be castrated and made to live a life without those organs of manhood...
I do not really think any of this would make a difference to you or to many like you who are out there.. who only can see women as objects, who can feel masculine only by overpowering and abusing women... and I also believe that you are just the symptoms, the tip of the iceberg... the real problem is much deeply rooted in our society...bobbitting you or hanging you in public is only a symptomatic treatment.. it does nothing to tackle the disease which is everywhere in our society...
So I ask you.. the six of you who brutally assaulted, gang-raped a 23 year old woman in Delhi on the night of 16th December 2012 and then threw her out of the running bus... who eventually became responsible for her death due to infection and multi-organ failure.... what do you think you deserve? What should be your fate? What should be done to provide justice to this young woman and many others like her.. What should be done to give you a second chance but making sure you do not pose danger of any sort to any other person? What should we do so that your mothers, daughters, sisters and wives do not live a life of shame, guilt and blame because of your actions? Please take a moment to reflect and tell us how should we treat you....
Have you heard the news? I hope you did.. because the girl that you had your way with on the night of 16th December died this morning... fighting severe physical injuries, gangrenous intestines, multi-organ failure caused by infections... Did they tell you that she wanted to live, she was trying to communicate with her family as much as she could, she even gave her statement to the magistrate twice. She wanted to live and she wanted to complete her studies....
but you had some different plans for her? Why? and if I may ask you, in what capacity? Who were you to her? Did you plan this for months in advance? Were you looking for a victim to fulfil your own desires or just to take out all your frustrations arising from somewhere else?Why this girl? Why any girl, woman, human being? Why should someone else pay the price of your action? What is so special about you that a 23 year old had to sustain that brutal attack by you and in the end loose a battle of life?
Your actions as described by the media and as evident from the injuries the girl sustained make me feel that you were not human beings at least at that hour. I cant imagine a human being carrying out such mean, animal like behaviour What was it that fuelled your actions? What was going on in your heads? Did you realize what you were doing? Was it just to get some sexual pleasure? But how can you have pleasure by forcing yourself sexually as a group against a lone woman? Unless you are capable of deriving pleasure by inflicting pain on others... I really hope that you don't get a second chance at deriving such pleasure with anyone again...
My first reaction was that your actions were worse than animals.. but now when i think about it and as my brother brought to my notice, I am actually insulting animals by referring to your brutalities as animalistic instincts... I have not studied zoology in great details but I think even in animal kingdom, group of males don't assault a female with the brutality comparable to yours... nope, I would definitely wont call you animals.. that is really demeaning to the animal kingdom.
Were you intoxicated? I see you were definitely intoxicated by sexual desire but I am referring to substances, chemicals, alcohol whatever.... because even if you derive pleasure by inflicting pain on others, I cant understand what motivated you to repeatedly insert an iron rod inside this woman's body? Were your own personal weapons not capable enough to cause pain so that you would derive adequate pleasure? I really don't get this.. what were you thinking? and whose creative idea was this?
I am not sure if you guys knew each other before hand... because if you were not.. that makes me further surprised . I am trying hard to comprehend a situation where 6 men unfamiliar with each other sharing a ride in a bus somehow managed to communicate with each other in such an effective way in presence of this young woman and her male companion and you even succeeded in executing your plan.. We definitely need to learn your communication strategy.. that might help us communicate with millions of Indians who are outraged and upset right now, thanks to your deeds... I know this might endanger your life significantly.. but I am not so worried about that... and knowing the power of anger and sadness that is boiling inside me, I can only assess the cumulative power of similar emotions shared by millions of people like me... if we manage to communicate the same way you managed.. I promise you, you will have no place to hide, and no prison can keep you safe... so thank your stars that at this moment, we do not know how to communicate with each other... because the moment that happens... you will have hard time protecting yourself... and may be you need to experience that kind of vulnerability at least once in your life.. just to give you a perspective what that girl must have gone through while you were pounding at her, tearing her away bit by bit....
Do you have a family? Do you have friends? Do they know that you are behind the bars for this crime? Have they come to see you in the prison? What did they say to you? Could they even look into your eyes? Could they hold your hands, the same hands that forced a woman down and assaulted her... I don't know who all are there in your family but may be some of you have mother, some others might even have sisters, daughters some of you might even be married.. how was it for them to see you as the rapists? How was it for you to see these women in your relations after having raped and killed another woman? You know I am really concerned about the trauma that your mothers have to live with for the fact that they brought you in this world. I can only feel the pain of your daughters and the shame that they would carry in their hearts for you are their father... I can feel the disgust that your wives might feel for themselves that you were their husbands... You have not hurt and killed just one woman, you have killed millions of women, some in your own relations but more... thousands and thousands of women like me, who have nothing to do with you.. who have never seen you... so criminal charges against you are far more grievous than what you think... and trust me, we are all wondering.. what did we do to have men like you around us, among us...
May be you don't have a mirror in the prison.. that is good... because I don't know what will you see if you see yourself in a mirror? That might be a very scary and confronting experience for you... but you can look at some of your body parts... for example your hands, your legs, your torsos and genitals... how does that feel now in the light of your actions on 16th December .. Do you loath yourself? Do you feel ashamed? Any trace of guilt? Any slightest space for repentance? What about sadness? What about pain? May be some fear? Hope? I am really not able to assess your emotional landscape at the moment... I am having hard time to assess my own emotional landscape and my only relation to the event is being a coward, mute bystander, a silent spectator ... but you were the actors of the event, may be I should call you villains... and probably that has huge influence on your emotional landscape... I hope these days behind the bars will give you ample time and opportunity to reflect on your deeds and your life... I cant promise that it might help you in some ways... but who knows...
I hope you are in isolated cells in the prison... because if you are in one of those cells overcrowded with other criminals.. your lives might be in great danger.. but the fact that we have not heard about you being beaten to death by your fellow inmates tells me that your inmates do not know your true identity or they do not have access to news from outside world... but the prison officers know about you... and I am sure they are not treating you in very kind ways... I am in support of your own human rights as well.. even though I have often doubts to think of you as humans... so I really hope that you are safe behind those bars.... at least till the time the trial begins in the court and justice is made... I must be honest.. I don't believe that Indian society and the judicial system is capable of providing justice in this case... what justice means and how it should be reached is too complex a question and I have neither knowledge or expertise in this field to make a comment...
If you do not know, let me tell you the body of this young woman will be flown into Delhi this evening, government has put bans on any kind of protests..there is tremendous police force around the capital to prevent any form of protests... I guess they know what could happen if so many angry people gather together... but people are gathering together any ways all over the country , they are protesting in peaceful ways... there is a strong public demand that you should be given a capital punishment... and that too not after a trial that goes on for 25 years... there are strong slogans stating 'justice delayed is justice denied'.. there is another voice asking for hanging you till death in public place... people feel that way a strong statement will be made and that might deter similar incidences in future.... lot of people are also asking that you should be castrated and made to live a life without those organs of manhood...
I do not really think any of this would make a difference to you or to many like you who are out there.. who only can see women as objects, who can feel masculine only by overpowering and abusing women... and I also believe that you are just the symptoms, the tip of the iceberg... the real problem is much deeply rooted in our society...bobbitting you or hanging you in public is only a symptomatic treatment.. it does nothing to tackle the disease which is everywhere in our society...
So I ask you.. the six of you who brutally assaulted, gang-raped a 23 year old woman in Delhi on the night of 16th December 2012 and then threw her out of the running bus... who eventually became responsible for her death due to infection and multi-organ failure.... what do you think you deserve? What should be your fate? What should be done to provide justice to this young woman and many others like her.. What should be done to give you a second chance but making sure you do not pose danger of any sort to any other person? What should we do so that your mothers, daughters, sisters and wives do not live a life of shame, guilt and blame because of your actions? Please take a moment to reflect and tell us how should we treat you....
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