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Protesters

"Excuse me, excuse me. Can you tell our viewers why you're here today?"
"Because enough is enough! The women population can't go on being attacked like animals!"
"So that's why you've been out here all night and today? Ma'am, what about you? How long have you been out here?"
"Over 18 hours and we'll stay until the animals who did this are caught and the police apologize for the lack of care! Their apathy might be costing another life!" "Our society is not breaking, it's broken and we are here, so many women and so many men, because we want to fix it! It is simple, the solution is simple!"
"What is the solution?"
"Stop treating us women like we are lesser than men! Simple!"
"And you, ma'am, what's your view?"
"We want justice for the victims, compassion and action from the police and accountability from our judicial system. Nine times the amount of recorded rapes go unreported and of those that do, only 25% of those rapists actually get prosecuted! We need fast track, special courts that speed up such cases and encourage more victims to come forward and feel confident they will get justice!"
"Are you not afraid that such a fast track system might though, ma'am, bear with me, please, ma'am, some say, it might increase false accusations?"

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"No one is saying we want to increase those wrongly accused. Absolutely not! And the women who do use laws meant to protect them as tools of vengeance should do time themselves! I have no issue with that. They are a menace to society who only hurt truly vulnerable women in the end. But let us not assume they are the majority or even anything other than a minority. Let us not use the police's line that, 'These women are really asking for it, they just use rape to get money from their men.' As soon as you believe that, that the majority of rape victims are, you know, like 'bhediya aaya, bhediya aaya,' crying wolf or liars, basically, then we are all done for. You really think in this country a woman wants to lie and shout, 'I was raped?' It is not an easy thing to say, believe me! Not so many would lie about such a thing!"
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JAW DROPPING ENLIGHTENMENT

Some of India's less progressive minds tackle
the problem of rape

"It is sometimes right and sometimes wrong." -
Babulal Gaur, Home Minister Madhya Pradesh
"Boys will be boys, they make mistakes... Will you hang them for rape?" -
Mulayam Singh Yadav, Samajwadi Party chief
"Just because India achieved freedom at midnight does not mean that women can venture out after dark." -
Botsa Satyanarayan, INC legislature from state assembly of Andhra Pradesh
"Rapes take place also because of a woman's clothes, her behavior and her presence at inappropriate places." -
Asha Mirje, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and a member of the Maharashtra Women's Commission
"I have not seen a single incident or example of rape with a respected lady." -
Manohar Lal Sharma, defense lawyer in Delhi Dec 16, 2012 gang rape case

For more read:

Short skirts, bad stars and chow mein: why India's women get raped - Reuters

Political potshots: Why me, asks modern woman - Times of India

Shut up, please! - Newslaundry.com

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