One of the many protests over the Delhi gang-rape
Barely two months after the Delhi gang-rapists were given capital punishment, another gruesome rape story comes out. This time in Assam. A mother boarded a shared tempo to pick up her six-year-old daughter from school. Little did she know she would be mercilessly raped by four men, have her eyes gouged out, be thrown out of the moving vehicle and left to die by the wayside. Two days later she succumbed to her brutal injuries.
This horror story is strikingly similar to the Nirbhaya case, yet drastically different. How, you ask? Well, this time around the media is silent, passive, maybe even indifferent! Is it that we're immune, or is a rape in Assam not news-worthy enough compared to one in Delhi? Here's what people have to say on Twitter about the Assam rape case coverage.
@NigelBritto: Why is the Assam gang rape so insignificant to us on Twitter? Is it because it's so far away in the NE? Or because she isn't "one of us"?
< br />@Equateall: Why #AssamRape & molestation of 93 girls on Patna bound train in Bihar r NOT Hot Issues for #MSM? They happened in Cong & pro-CONg states.
@Malinirajesh: Media too busy covering the Talwars' and the Tejpals'. Six days have passed since the gruesome #AssamRape and murder.
@anunheardvoice: No outrage against the gruesome Assam rape incedent in media. They shouldn't stop untill perpetrators are caught. Sick national media
@smitabarooah: A mother heads to school to pick up her 6-year-old.She is gangraped,eyes gouged,thrown out of tempo.She dies.Where is d outrage? #AssamRape
@Soumyajit_Dutta: #AssamRape happened on Friday hvnt seen any media house covering it yet,even the so called Feminists & intellectuals r also silent
@ethicalman3: Sad that Assam gang rape is not even menti oned in mass media..maybe cause its a under congress regime.. :(
@Ash_4_ya: No Candle march fr #AssamRape victim >> mayb cos ppl hv understood its not gonna make any difference or they jst dont care abt NE !
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