{"id":8426,"date":"2015-03-03T11:29:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T11:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/03\/03\/the-victim-is-to-blame\/"},"modified":"2015-03-03T11:29:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T11:29:15","slug":"the-victim-is-to-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/03\/the-victim-is-to-blame\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Victim is to Blame’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Delhi Bus Rape Convict Claims Woman was Responsible for Attack<\/h3>\n

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\nOne of the men arrested for the gang rape of 23-year-old Jyoti Singh has stated in an interview that she was to blame for her assault and that, \u201cA girl is far more responsible for rape than a boy.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nThe gang rape occurred in 2012 on a bus in Delhi, sparking international outrage and intense scrutiny on India\u2019s laws on sexual violence. Jyoti lost her life two weeks after the attack whilst her male friend who accompanied her suffered broken limbs but survived. <\/p>\n


\nThe man, 26-year-old Mukesh Singh, was driving the bus at the time of the attack. Singh said in a documentary interview that Jyoti and her male friend should not have tried to fight back otherwise the gang would not have inflicted such a savage beating. Calling her death an \u201caccident\u201d Singh claims, \u201cWhen being raped, she shouldn’t fight back. She should just be silent and allow the rape. Then they’d have dropped her off after ‘doing her’, and only hit the boy.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nAlthough Singh states he had no participation in the rape, DNA evidence suggests otherwise and court officials claim even if Singh did not commit the rape, he should have intervened. <\/p>\n


\nShowing little remorse Singh went on, \u201cYou can’t clap with one hand \u2013 it takes two hands,\u201d he says in the interview. \u201cA decent girl won’t roam around at 9 o’clock at night. A girl is far more responsible for rape than a boy. Boy and girl are not equal. Housework and housekeeping is for girls, not roaming in discos and bars at night doing wrong things, wearing wrong clothes. About 20 per cent of girls are good.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nAlthough death sentences have been handed to the men, a harsh sentence rarely handed out, campaigners say not enough has been done since. Singh, who has also been sentenced to death, believes the punishment will have negative effects for future rape victims.\u00a0 <\/p>\n


\n\u201cThe death penalty will make things even more dangerous for girls,\u201d he says. \u201cBefore, they would rape and say, \u2018Leave her, she won’t tell anyone.\u2019 Now when they rape, especially the criminal types, they will just kill the girl. Death.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nLawyers who defended the remaining convicts in court expressed similar views about women, lawyer AP Singh said, \u201cIf my daughter or sister engaged in pre-marital activities and disgraced herself and allowed herself to lose face and character by doing such things, I would most certainly take this sort of sister or daughter to my farmhouse, and in front of my entire family, I would put petrol on her and set her alight.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nAnother defence lawyer who acted in the case, ML Sharma, says, \u201cIn our society, we never allow our girls to come out from the house after 6:30 or 7.30 or 8.30 in the evening with any unknown person.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nThe documentary titled India\u2019s Daughter<\/em>, on the Delhi rape and its subsequent effect, will premiere on Sunday 8th March on BBC Four at 10:00pm. \n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Delhi Bus Rape Convict Claims Woman was Responsible for Attack One of the men arrested for the gang rape of 23-year-old Jyoti Singh has stated in an interview that she was to blame for her assault and that, \u201cA girl is far more responsible for rape than a boy.\u201d The gang rape occurred […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}