Friday, December 12, 2014

Comparing with others is no excuse.

Shiv Kumar Yadav, a taxi driver for Uber, has confessed to having raped many women in his cab over a period of months. Perhaps this story is not as horrific as that of the girl, named Nirbhaya by the press, who died after being gang-raped inside a Delhi bus or the story of an unnamed woman who was left for dead after being raped for 3 days and suffering such diabolical torture that it is impossible to read about it. These cases are reported all over the world, bringing shame to all of us as a nation. However terrible these cases maybe they pale in comparison to the case of the man in Brazil who has just confessed to having killed 42 people, including a 2 year old girl, over a period of 9 years, just for pleasure. In the UK a government adviser has warned of a " national health epidemic " as one in six people in Britain may have been sexually assaulted. Last year 3,273 children under the age of 13 years were charged with serious crimes in Britain, including rape, sexual assault, robbery, kidnap and issuing death threats, 154 of them were under the age of 12 years. Pedophilia is so rampant in western countries that police forces have special units dealing with sexual attacks on children. In Rochdale in England a gang was preying on vulnerable white girls, some as young as 13 years of age, after plying them with alcohol and drugs. Jimmy Savile boasted of having sex with bodies in a mortuary, molested women in psychiatric wards of hospitals and raped children. He was knighted for his charitable work in raising money for hospitals and helping poor children. The fear of being accused of pedophilia has so terrified men in western countries that men will not help children in danger of being killed in case they are accused falsely. In Australia a family was arrested for practicing incest over 4 generations. If that fills us with horror then what about randomly killing little children? Adam Lanza killed 20 children between the ages of 5 and 10 years, some little bodies had 11 bullets inside them. Child killing in the US is sponsored by the gun lobby which believes that the second amendment gives people the right to carry loaded guns at all times even if no country would dare to attack the US and guns would not have stopped the 9/11 attacks. US airport security posted pictures of some of the articles seized from passengers at airports. They include a six-bladed knife, guns, IEDs and even a grenade. A 65 year old homeowner recorded himself killing 2 teenagers who had broken into his house. Our population is 3 times that of the US and 20 times that of the UK but the degree of depravity is far higher in those countries. That, sadly, is no consolation.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have to completely disagree with you on this article. In the western world these cases appear a lot more, because as times change things are becoming far more transparent and clear. There is more accountability, and you will find that most of these cases are historical.

In India, things are far more worse than is reported by the media, because of the lack of transparency. Take for example the following link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2543445/Documentary-lifts-lid-criminals-steal-girls-young-NINE-sell-sex-trade.html

As the article says, an estimated 20,000 girls are trafficked from West Bengal alone, who knows what the real number of depraved crimes occur in India. And I bet it eclipses what is being reported in the Western World

Sakti Deb said...

Absolutely. But then who is more to blame - the user or the supplier? Are the drug lords more to blame for the massacres in Mexico and Colombia or the addicts who buy drugs at any price, making it worth killing for? I do not have the knowledge to comment on the ills of society but surely clever people should find solutions and politicians implement them.