| Submit your comments on this article |
| India-Pakistan |
| Outrage in India over U.S. tourist gang-rape |
| 2013-06-06 |
| [USATODAY] Outrage grew Wednesday over a series of sexual assaults that have rocked India with protests since last year after an American tourist was gang-raped and robbed Tuesday by three men while on her way back to her hotel. "What kind of a message are we trying to send -- that we are hostile to women?" said Kavita Krishnan, secretary of the All India Progressive Women's Association, a woman's rights group. "The government has to buck up and ensure safety for female tourists." On Tuesday night, the 30-year-old American, whose identity was withheld, was attacked in Manali in the north Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, about 300 miles north of New Delhi. The BBC reported that authorities have issued an alert for three men and set up roadblocks in the popular tourist area. "Because it happened at night, she couldn't read the truck number. At around 7a.m., we put up checkpoints everywhere and we've been looking for the suspects," senior local police official Vinod Dhawan told BBC Hindi. The Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,n, who was traveling on her own through the country, had visited some acquaintances in a village almost four miles away from her hotel, according to a report filed with the Indian police. Three men in a truck offered her a ride to her hotel at 1 a.m. but instead took her to a secluded forest, raped her and stole her phone, camera and money, the report said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 I was in India a little over a decade ago. Muslims had just finished rioting in the inner cities of most cities right before I arrived. I'm a white guy. I was uncomfortable leaving the hotel alone as every eye in the street spotted me instantly (and hands were rapidly held out hoping for donations). Personally I think the lady was a bit nuts to be travelling alone at night with all the craziness that's happened. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2013-06-06 14:52 |
| #3 "What kind of a message are we trying to send -- that we are hostile to women?" Rhetorical question, right? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-06-06 08:43 |
| #2 californicate woman in India. Now I get a vision of Tofu and Yoga and guru hovering in the air. And she is hitch hiking at ONE IN THE MORNING on some Indian village road? And she accepts a ride with some friendly gurus? I am trying not to laugh. I lived over there for ten years, I don't need a Visa because I have a POI card and I love India. But I still carry a Kirpan in my belt. However, I am not as STUPID as this woman. I can't help it, I am going to laugh anyway. She is uproariously Collo-silly stupid. |
| Posted by: Threater Flusoper9823 2013-06-06 08:31 |
| #1 The last paragraph gives great insight w/r to the victims possible mindset to be hitch hiking in a foreign country at 1 am... |
| Posted by: tipover 2013-06-06 01:20 |