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Marriages made in hell

June 26, 2009 posted by indiatime |

More than the Swine flu epidemic, the real epidemic that has engulfed India of today is an epidemic of rapes and gangrapes that, on a daily basis, victimizes scores of women across India. Open up any newspaper, tune in to any television station, and you would be reading about or viewing a gangrape story.

But the eastern state of Orissa has a solution for lives that get destroyed and traumatized by the rapes. All across that state, there’s a new wave of marriages - between the rapists and the raped - supported by the government authorities and social welfare agencies, as well as non-governmental agencies.

In what is being called a reform and a rehab measure, mostly purported to be a way to address the social stigma that the rape victims typically face, the novel marriage schemes have now become a part of the judicial scene where the rapists are using this as a ruse to reduce severe punishments for their crimes.

Some have argued that such marriages restore the ‘lost dignity’ of women. Others have proposed that this is a mutual compromise situation in what is perceived as a no-win scenario for either party. Still others advocate marriage as a measure to regain the victims’ self-respect.

Not everyone agrees. And a few rational minds have opposed the marriage schemes labeling them as ‘get out of jail’ cards for rapists and questioning the basis of such marriages.

Incredibly, even these marriage schemes do not have an answer for those women who are raped by their own, like minors raped by fathers and stepfathers and married women raped by fathers-in-law.

And there are cases where either the victim or the perpetrator is a minor.

Or where the victim or the perpetrator is well past 60 and 70.

And then there are rape victims who themselves or their attackers are already married at the time they are violated.

Or where the rapist is the husband himself, already married to the victim, inviting his friends over for a wild dinner party.

Or where the perpetrator is an employer in a domestic help situation.

Marrying victims to their violators. Ha!


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  1. Rajat Jain on June 30, 2009 2:12 am

    This artical raises some really rational questions…

  2. juliet on July 17, 2009 5:19 pm

    shame shame marrying the victim to the rapist is free legal rape every day and who is there to see the fellow gets fed up and throws her back on the streets, or to her mayka or kills her for that matter. THIS SHOULD BE IMMEDIATELY STOPPED. I beg the women in power to look in to this especially the President who vowed to make things easy for women this is certainly not being done.

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