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A story all too common in India — a Danish woman visiting the capital of New Delhi claims
she was brutally gang-*** by a group of men after getting lost in an area popular
with tourists.
The 51-year-old says she approached a group of men and asked for directions back to her
hotel room, but instead they lead her to a secluded spot near a railway where they reportedly
robbed her and repeatedly *** her at knife point. (Via CNN)
"She says by up to eight men ... she then got a rickshaw to her hotel where she confided
apparently in another tourist there and that tourist raised the alarm and that's when the
police were called." (Via CBC)
According to Indian police, the woman didn't have physical injuries that required medical
attention and she refused to be examined.
A deputy police commissioner said they initially detained 15 men who helped pinpoint the whereabouts
of the suspects — who police said Tuesday they plan to arrest soon. The woman has since
left India. (Via The New York Times)
The director of a New Delhi women's advocacy goup, Centre for Social Research, told Bloomberg,
"The message being sent to the world is that if you are a woman, you shouldn't come to
India alone... It is a matter of great, great concern that this is happening, and we're
not doing enough to stop these attacks."
This attack comes a little more than a year after the brutal gang-*** and *** of a
23-year-old medical student on a bus in New Delhi. (Via Daily Mirror)
It caused international outrage, protests across India and demands for reform in the
county — a country where a woman is *** every 20 minutes according to India's National
Crime Records Bureau.
And while there is growing awareness of violence against women in the local media, and police
are reportedly taking cases more seriously,in the deeply traditional country the issue of
misogyny isn't one that will likely soon be solved.
A psychiatrist who has worked with hundreds of *** survivors in the area told The Washington
Post, "In India, men *** because it's a manly thing to subjugate the weaker sex. Our culture
puts so much emphasis on 'being a man,' which creates huge insecurities for men as they
see women's status rising in society."
Just this year four other women were gang-*** in India including a 16-year-old who died
from her injuries on New Years Eve. Of course, those are just the reported cases.