UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon urges Indian government to act urgently following death of 23-year-old gang-rape victim Delhi student
“Every girl and woman has the right to be respected, valued and protected,” Ban Ki-moon said in a statement in which he welcomed efforts by the government but called for “further steps and reforms to deter such crimes and bring perpetrators to justice”, the Guardian reports.
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PresiDunce Bean / December 30, 2012
When is Ban Ki-moon and the world going to wake up to what is happening in Sri Lanka? The majority in SL are deaf, dumb and blind to what is happening in the country. And the ones with internet access are hypocrites as well. They posted stuff about the rape and death of the Indian girl and they grieved over the death of Tony Greig. But why is there not a hum about the rape and murder of the 4 year old girl from Mandatheevu??? Click link.
http://onlineuthayan.com/english-news/uthayannews/5354x2l1h1h1r2
…non of the leading newspapers in Sri Lanka reported this, even though they reported the rape and death of the Indian girl.
No one talks any more about the murder of Khuram Shaikh Zaman and the rape of his Russian girlfriend Victoria Alexandrovna that took place on Christmas eve last year. Tangalle Pradeshiya Sabha chairman (A Rajapaksa acolyte) and his goons were the ones involved in this crime. Click link.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/dec/23/coverup-fears-haunt-khuram-shaikh-family
http://sundaytimes.lk/120101/News/nws_22.html
Other recent cases include:
A soldier accused of raping a six-year-old girl.
A worker in Colombo’s main conference centre arrested over the rape of a 15-year-old, yet swiftly bailed.
The rape and murder of a six-year-old by a male relative and two friends.
The abduction and rape of a 13-year-old girl by the son of a wealthy businessman.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18889564
This is one pathetic country we live in.
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Hema / December 31, 2012
True at least in India there was a outcry about the rape, whereas in sri lanka we do not even have outcries about the rapes that have happened or is happening.
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Native Vedda / January 1, 2013
Hema
“True at least in India there was a outcry about the rape”
Only now you see India’s national outpouring. Every day women suffer there silently. The women are being raped in police stations. According to Hindu there have been at least 45 women rape victims in the past 10 years who were raped in the police stations.
I assume you are women.
You cannot trust the men to deal rape crime since they the perpetrators at home and away. You cannot trust the monks they too are at it.
What are you doing about rape crimes in Sri Lanka?
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Lankika / January 4, 2013
Cause our first ancestor was into beastiality & our entry into the ‘Island’ was sealed with a crafty rape & banish
(and that is the mild version)
Who said Europeans were the only colonizers
Our prblem is that, we ‘Brownies’ from India have been obidient servants of the ‘tales of Aryan-supremacy’, introduced by that tribe between Iran & Russia………this is our high-culture….a severe cause of our problems; identity, racism, discrimination, religious ideology; Buddist & Hindu.
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Senguttuvan / December 30, 2012
An indelible scar on India’s fair image in the eyes of the world. Worse, a further evidence – despite the industrial-agricultural advances in recent the country gloats over – the system is unable to assure the billion plus population many basic essentials – clean
drinking water, uninterrupted power for a country claiming to be an industrial giant; escape from a situation people from several centuries simultaneously live today in the same counrty (vide Arundathi Roy); the image much of the country is nothing but ill-smelling unhealthy slums and a massive gap between the rich and the poor with hardly a middle-class inbetween.
And now – the clamour of those women in the past few days in the streets in Delhi – dubbed the Rape Capital of India – to create the conditions guaranteed in the Constitution “for women to go about in the day and night free of kidnap and rape” PM Dr. ManMohan Singh’s assurance this will be done has to be taken with a pinch of water in a country that remains – after nearly 50 years – what Harvard Don Prof. John Galbraith described, as he functioned as JFKs Ambassador in Delhi during Nehru’s India “India is no more than a functioning anarchy”
And as to a comparison to our own Miracle of Asia – the least said the better.
Senguttuvan
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Senguttuvan / December 30, 2012
Correction – Pinch of Salt …. Senguttuvan
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Oh Danny boy / December 31, 2012
IN OUR BELOVED SILLY LANKA THE GANG RAPISTS ARE ALL IN THE PARLIAMENT. THEY ARE RAPING THE PEOPLE OF THEIR PITTANCE MONEY. THE PRICE OF ALL ESSENTIAL GOODS ARE ROCKETING SO HIGH. THE VIRGIN OLIVE OIL HAS LOST ITS VIRGINITY. THERE ARE MANY MORE GOODS LOOSING THEIR RESPECT TO THESE ASSHOLES IN THE PARLIAMENT.
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Visakha Tillekeratne, Justice for Victims / December 31, 2012
We live in a country where the Attorney General sweeps the rape of children under the carpet saying most of it is statutory rape and not real rape, so it is OK. Rape is rape, Mr AG
Did the world mourn for the 13 year old used by 20 men in Tangalle? I am mentioning this as it has not been brought forward in the comments above. Why are we only crying for the Delhi rape? I am not going to repeat myself as most of these have been described above.
We Sri Lankans are really a sad and pathetic group of citizens.
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