Acid Attacks : A Heinous Crime
Acid attacks take place all over the world. They are particularly brutal in their intent -- as they aim not to kill the victim, but to disfigure them and thereby, to condemn them to a life of suffering. A vast majority of these victims are women, and a majority of such attacks take place in South Asia. India, Pakistan and Bangladesh have the dubious distinction of having the highest number of acid attack incidents in the world.
India has the highest number of acid attacks in the world, but the worst conviction rates. As is often the case with other crimes against women, acid attacks are treated with official apathy and societal indifference. The victims are usually women between the ages of 14 and 35 years, and the attack often occurs as revenge for rejecting a marriage proposal or sexual advances, showing the peculiar mindset of male entitlement and power, and no right for a woman to refuse. Women have had acid thrown at them for not bringing enough dowry, for bearing a female child and for not cooking a good enough meal.
India has acknowledged the cancer of acid attacks by framing suitable laws. But clearly these laws need better implementation, as do efforts to put survivors on the road to rehabilitation.
My thoughts become very dark when I dwell on this topic. Not only does it disfigure the woman, this damage ruins her life and affects the people around her. Cosmetic surgery is never adequate and blindness cannot be reversed.
I think that financially everything that the perpetrator has and will earn should go toward the care and maintenance of the victim. This will continue until the end of the perpetrator's life - with the proceeds going to the family in the event the victim predeceases the perpetrator. If the perpetrator predeceases the victim, the burden is passed to the parents of the perpetrator.
As I said my thoughts become very dark. As an additional punishment which would act as a deterrent to the rest of society, the skin of the perpetrator would be stained a bright red for the rest of his life - so all can see his crime.
There is a reason I don't participate in discussions having to do with punishments of crime. First it awakens my own particular evils and secondly stains my spirit in the process.
nice thoughts sir your thoughts are respectable...
Unfortunately it is like walking through a mud puddle. Getting dirty is unavoidable.
It is sad to see that women are often victims of this kind of fact.
You need a stronger law to stop this
yaa u r right but our political system is soo corrupted that opposition parties stop the parliament work can stop smooth functionig of rulling government
यह पोस्ट कहॉ से लाये है। हमको भी बताओ।
This is really disturbing every time I hear about this or how women are treated in this regions in general. Thank you to call attention to this again.
same as me also ... but this is a reallity and such crime are brutal in nature. this is not the condition of India but this is the problem of world. we must change our mentallity and stop this type of crime.
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so sad :(
Good post
thanks
That was a serious crime. I do not know why they do this in which purpose?
great post buddy.
thanks bro.. Women have had acid thrown at them for not bringing enough dowry, for bearing a female child and for not cooking a good enough meal, and most important failure in LOVE.
This is horrible! Anyone who does this should be banished from society forever.
yes u r right but this can't be happen in INDIA due to our society rules and regulations
Yes, I didn't think it would happen.
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