WHAT WE REALLY SHOULD DO….

There we go again… am sitting with my parents watching the interviews held with rape victims who have stood up with courage and refused to hide or blur their faces fearing censure from the society and they change the channel. The reason being that they feel distressed hearing the women relate their traumatic experiences. Am not totally insensitive as to not understand what my parents are feeling especially when they have two daughters but I still feel that no matter what people should watch such programs, understand the pain that these women underwent and the way society never treats them the same. A woman strong enough to speak out about the traumatic experience that she underwent is immediately labeled as arrogant, “modern”. What people are ever ready to forget is she herself has undergone so much agony and all she needs now is love and support not the unwanted criticism and judgment. Admire the courage that these ladies show people!! Get your head out of the muck and treat them as icons for mitigating such incidents in the future. Have the decency, if not to support at least to treat them with respect. Don’t insult them by trying to compensate what they have suffered with pity and money. The brutal rape that took place in the capital has got so much attention but what about the others that go unnoticed every single day?? Aren’t they just as important as the one that took place recently?

Humanity requires the whole procedure of giving a human a second chance but everything has its limit. You cannot give the people who have destroyed an innocent girl’s life with such animalistic brutality. Hanging such men would be abrupt... definitely not what they deserve but chemical castration on the other hand is one of the serious solutions. These men who did not think twice before taking the girl’s life deserve this.

It would really help if the government would take immediate action but who am I kidding? How easy it is for them to forget that it could easily have been someone in their family who could have gone through the same trauma? Of course it is easy to forget when they have three-four people guarding all their loved ones. Am sure they will just drag it out as they do usually hoping this is also one of the protests that will blow over. Prove them wrong!! Please don’t let her have died for nothing. Fight! Do not back down. Don’t treat this as some other topic. Show the government their actual place. Show that they are nothing without “us”- the public!!