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on Thursday September 03 2015, @05:27AM
from the not-something-to-joke-about dept.
from the not-something-to-joke-about dept.
One of the sisters who has been sentenced to be repeatedly raped because her brother eloped with a woman from a higher caste has said she cannot return home because she fears village elders will want to take revenge on her.
An illegal jury, composed of male upper caste Baghpat village elders, reportedly ordered the gang rape of Meenakshi Kumari, 23, and her 15-year-old sister after their brother Ravi eloped with a married woman, known only as Krishna, from a higher caste.
Ms Kumari, fearing for their lives, petitioned India's Supreme Court for protection. The case brought international attention after an Amnesty International petition to save the two girls from the punishment garnered more than 200,000 signatures.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 03 2015, @07:43AM
> You conveniently missed the part where I said "I have no clue about their culture" so maybe you could cut me some slack?
Oh I saw it and recognized it as the bullshit passive-aggressive excuse that it was.
> I'm just stating the obvious.
The "just stating the obvious" is the oldest passive-aggressive tactic on the internet, also known as "just saying" and "just making an observation."
> I'm strictly a hardware guy, H1Bs don't affect me at all (yet).
Don't fool yourself. Qualcomm alone brought in 350 hardware engineers on H1B in 2013 and another 100+ in 2014.
> Just for general information, if I want to jump down someones throat for some imagined slight, I'll log in to do it and not hide behind AC.
More passive aggressiveness. Translation: "I am so much better than you because you are anonymous while I log into a completely anonymous account."
Look, I can be passive aggressive too!