karma is a great thing.
while i deplore such actions i cannot help but smirk and have a laugh.
was not long ago indians making out that australians are racist, and they put up with racial abuse and discrimination in australia. and us australians have always said we are not racist, we do not hate them for their color etc. that we hate them because of how they act, how they treat out women and fellow countrymen. their crappy attitudes and scams they pull, among other reasons.
now you all can see, that our dislike for most of them did not come from racism, it come from THEIR ACTIONS, THEIR ATTITUDES etc.. i think majority of indians are sexual deviates with no desire to control their emotions, which is why even in australia they will hit on a women, and if they dont get what they want they abuse them etc. in some circumstances they just take what they want regardless.
australians racist? no
indians rapist? very much so
The subject you touch, still gets some Australians rattled. Here is a response from an Australian on the latest attacks in India. You can still feel the anger.
Indias dark secrets and hypocrisy exposed
Last Friday a Swiss woman and her male partner were viciously attacked by a gang of thugs in the Datia district of Madhya Pradesh in central India. The womans partner was tied to a tree and the woman gang raped.
Six men have confessed to the crime. All face the death penalty if convicted.
This appalling crime was made worse by the comments of the Home Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Umashankar Gupta who inexplicably appeared to blame the victims for the crime.
The rape of the Swiss national is unfortunate but foreign travellers should inform the police about their movement so they can be provided with adequate protection, he said. They often dont follow the states rules.
Yesterday the Madhya Pradesh parliament was adjourned after lapsing into chaos with members hurling abuse at one another across the floor. Mr Gupta has ignored calls for his resignation and the government has issued gentler warnings to tourists planning to visit the state.
The crime has renewed the focus on the status of women in India after the gang rape of a young Indian woman on a bus in Indias sprawling capital, Delhi in December. The woman died from internal injuries inflicted by a metal rod during the rape.
The backlash from Indian women then caught the international spotlight, exposing Indias secret shame its treatment of women and the epidemic levels of sexual assault.
Delhi is the epicentre of rape in India. Sexual assault occurs in the Indian capital at three times the rate in Mumbai and five times that of Kolkata.
More than 600 rapes were reported in New Delhi in 2012. So far, only three attacks have resulted in convictions.
Last week, Indias federal cabinet approved new laws aimed at strengthening the judicial responses to sexual assaults. The bill moves on to the Indian parliament for consideration.
Lets go back three years when the Indian media was in uproar with the Indian Government pointing gnarled fingers at Australia in the wake of a handful of attacks on Indian students, most of which occurred in Melbourne.
At the time, Australians wondered if some of the more sinister claims were true. Yet, there is no evidence to suggest that the attacks on Indian students were racially motivated. Rather they fell into the category of muggings and violent assaults which are a sad but declining feature of life in Australias big cities.
By January 2010, Indias External Affairs Minister, S.M. Krishna urged parents not to send their children to Australia unless they were coming here to undertake specialised or hi-tech studies.
It was a shameful episode, based entirely on an Indian political beat-up, aided and abetted by an excitable Indian media. The Hindustan Times, the Times of India and The Hindu all ran a series of front page stories on the attacks. English language news channel, NDTV broadcast a report entitled Racist Australia? A blogger with the Indian Express wrote, Whites in Australia are strongly racist and a large number are descendants of the worst British criminals. Another wrote, Racism is alive and kicking in Australia, a nation of ex-cons and squalid criminals.
The net effect of the dubious outrage was the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars to Australias training and education industry. Australias immigration department reported that the number of student visa applications from India halved in 2010-11 and that the total number of student visa applications from around the world fell by 20 per cent.
The simple statistical fact is that young Indian people and young Indian women in particular would be far safer in Australia than they would be in India. It is not just the high rates of sexual assault on women but the treatment of children that are deep and dark secrets of life in India.
Last month, Human Rights Watch released Breaking the Silence a report on the sexual abuse of children and the findings are staggering.
The report conducted its own inquiries, including thousands of interviews with children. It also cited a 2007 government sponsored inquiry where 12,500 children in 13 Indian states were interviewed. 53 per cent of the children interviewed reported they had suffered some form of sexual abuse. Only three per cent of these crimes had been reported to police.
Breaking the Silence also describes the appalling conditions found in many residential child care facilities in India. In one instance, girls were forced to have sex with strangers and were routinely sexually assaulted in perverse rituals by the son-in-law of the director of a government inspected home for orphans and other vulnerable children in Haryana state. Other children reported being tied and suspended from ceiling fans as punishment.
The report identifies systemic failures in state and community responses. Police often cajole and bully victims into dropping charges or withdrawing reports. In some instances, police detained victims in the cells for two weeks or more to pressure them to drop their claims. Others have been beaten into submission by police.
Doctors whether GPs, gynaecologists or paediatricians have had no training on how to conduct sensitive examinations on children who have reported being raped or molested. They have no idea how to provide guidance on rehabilitation or how to treat the medical and psychological needs of children in these circumstances.
In one instance, a 12-year-old girl underwent a crude medical examination after being raped:
(The doctor) asked me to lie down on a table and remove my clothes. When she examined me she inserted a single finger inside me. It hurt and I was scared. I did not like what the doctor was doing to me. She then said something like, Oh, it was just a small rape, it is no big deal.
Many parents of victims decline to report sexual assaults on their children for fear of the social stigmatisation and alienation.
When victims face these types of hurdles, it is little wonder that they refuse to report sexual crimes to the authorities.
This year Indias economy will grow by nine per cent. Along with China, India is the economic powerhouse of the world. It has undergone astonishing societal changes in a brief period. India now is almost unrecognisable to the place I first visited 25 years ago. It continues to face challenges in governance that are almost beyond comprehension of Australians.
No doubt the dreadful attack on the two Swiss tourists will force many people around the world to rethink their plans. Some will decline to travel to what is an astonishingly beautiful, vibrant country due to the perceived dangers in doing so.
Rushing to judge and vilify Australians, the Indian government has applied a Himalayan standard to us and a subterranean one for itself. The standard should never vary. A society must be judged on how its most vulnerable members are treated and no amount of diversion will spare it from that judgment.
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