Mother names daughter, Jyoti Singh, who died after gang rape on Indian bus
(today marks the third anniversary of her horrendous ordeal)
(while her name has been known here, apparently it was not widely known in india. her mother is very brave to be naming her like this)
Mother names daughter who died after gang rape on Indian bus
Asha Singh says she has no shame in publicly naming her daughter, Jyoti Singh, who died after
being attacked in Delhi three years ago
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An Indian student during a demonstration to demand the death sentence for four men convicted of rape and murder of Jyoti Singh. Photograph: Mahesh Kumar A./Associated Press
The mother of the student who died after being gang-raped on a Delhi bus has publicly named her daughter for the first time, in an attempt to end the stigma facing sex attack victims in India.
The 23-year-old student, revealed to be called Jyoti Singh, died after being brutally assaulted on a bus in Delhi in 2012, triggering global outrage and protests in India over the country’s high levels of violence against women.
Rape victims are normally shunned and vilified in deeply patriarchal India and they cannot be named under national law.
“I feel no shame in naming my daughter. I say this in front of you all that her name was Jyoti Singh,” Asha Singh said at a public gathering in Delhi to mark the third anniversary of the attack. “You all must also from now onwards call her Jyoti Singh.
“There is no need for us to feel any shame. It is the perpetrators of heinous crimes who must feel ashamed of themselves,” she said to roaring applause from the audience.
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/16/mother-publicly-names-daughter-killed-in-india-bus-sex-attack
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