Woman Is Gang-Raped on Order of Village Council in India

[geek tragedy]

26. the story says that villagers grabbed her, and that the village council made the order.

generalizations on a country of 1 billion are obviously misplaced. But, here this appears to be a community effort--they were tied up in public in the middle of the village square.

No one stood up and said this was wrong.

this wasn't a cop abusing his authority in a crime of opportunity. it was the entire power structure of the village participating. How can an entity be of any good when it's entire power structure is pure evil?

Also, this:

Sunil Soren, a tribal leader from a nearby village, insisted in a telephone interview that people in the area “respect our women a lot.” But he said that Mr. Sheikh and the young woman were “in an objectionable situation,” and that such incidents “pollute the minds of youngsters.”
“In the excitement, some wrong things happened,” Mr. Soren said.
Village councils are common in rural India, particularly among populations that are considered tribal, among the poorest groups in the country. The councils often enforce strict codes of conduct, and in some cases are deeply involved in deciding who will marry whom. Councils are often worried that marriages to outsiders will dilute communal land claims, among other concerns. Couples who defy the tribal marital codes are sometimes murdered. Genetic researchers have found that India’s population has hundreds of distinct sub-groups, in part because village councils have been enforcing marital codes and limiting intermarriage for centuries.

In order to smash the patriarchy, sometimes you have to actually smash it.