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- [Woman Narrator] On 16 December, 2012 at about 8:30 p.m.

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a 23 year old medical student was on her way home

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from a movie with a male friend.

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(traffic whirring)

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The couple boarded a private bus

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which claimed to be going their way.

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Her friend was badly beaten and she was dragged to the back

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where she was gang raped by six men

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as the bus drove round and round the highways.

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According to the latest government figures,

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a woman is raped in India every 20 minutes.

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But most rapes are unreported.

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This rape led to unprecedented protests

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erupting across India.

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The silence has been broken.

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(yelling and chanting together)

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- We want justice!

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We want justice!

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(yelling and screaming)

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(woman humming a haunting melody)

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(flute music and jail door squeaking open and shut)

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(typing and pensive strings music)

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(traffic whirring by, honking and pensive music)

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(low, tense music and tiger roaring)

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(traffic driving and honking)

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(woman humming a haunting melody)

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- The rape was extremely brutal.

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And it\'s something very unusual to find that you

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not only raped the girl but you put an iron rod

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and take out her entrails.

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I mean, this is something I can\'t understand.

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What kind of human beings are these

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who do something like that?

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- The idea of a gang rape is to send a message,

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you are not to breach this boundary.

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This is a boundary between us and you to do with power.

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- Before this event, there was still a very,

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very strong culture of shame around rape.

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To be raped was deeply shaming.

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That to be raped was worse than to be dead, in fact.

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And so you would get politicians saying

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the most extraordinary things about rape victims.

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That it was better that a rape victim had died

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because had she lived she would just be a walking corpse.

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- [Man Narrator] A young woman was gang raped

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on a moving bus in Delhi last night.

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Not only was she raped, she was brutally beaten

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and thrown off the bus.

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It was the kind of brazen attack that explains why Delhi,

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our national capitol, has been called India\'s rape capitol.

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The accused started the argument with the boy

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when they asked him inside the bus, what he was doing

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with a girl at that time of the night.

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Since the couple retaliated and especially the girl

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fought back very hard, the men got even more angry

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and they thought they must teach her a lesson.

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- Happening to a young woman who represented a symbol

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of new aspiration sent shockwaves through the society.

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In the last 15 to 20 years, the economy has changed a lot

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in India and it\'s created opportunities for young women

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and single women to come and work.

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And it\'s raised expectations across a range of classes

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of young, single women of how they should be allowed

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to live their lives.

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- There are many gang rapes that take place in India

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and they\'ve been taking place over the years.

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But somehow this caught the imagination of people.

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For one thing, it happened in the capitol city.

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It happened in an evening out,

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which was not a late hour, 8:00.

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A young girl and boy were returning home from a movie.

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I mean it was most normal kind of behavior.

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- I think our pain united all of us.

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And I think there wasn\'t one single woman, you know,

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on that day who didn\'t actually feel the pain

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that girl had gone through.

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So that I think is what brought us out on the streets.

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It was gut wrenching pain.

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- I painted a bunch of placards just saying,

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women take back your city.

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Nothing, not inciting violence or anything.

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And we\'re walking down to India Gate and we get accosted

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by a truck full of policemen saying, you can\'t go here.

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It\'s not allowed.

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They just decided that we\'re not gonna let

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these women question us anymore.

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It\'s not their place to do that.

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(metal grating on concrete)

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So we decided to challenge them.

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We decided, you know, we\'ve got civil rights.

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You can\'t just stop us from going anywhere.

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That\'s one of the freedoms that is

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granted to us constitutionally.

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And then things go ugly.

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They started pulling and dragging and shoving us into a van

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and saying, we\'re putting you in lock down.

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- My husband tells me I\'m stupid because I go and prostest,

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you know, without bothering about the consequences.

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But that day was a slap in my face.

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I really thought that if you\'re an educated woman

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and if you\'re courageous and you\'re outspoken

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you know, really what can the police do?

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It was a completely peaceful protest.

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And then within 20 minutes it turned into a war zone.

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(guns firing and yelling)

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- They went out day after day protesting.

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It just showed that they wanted change.

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They believed that change would take place.

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It was the first time that young people had gone out

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to protest without a leader,

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without being called by any political party.

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And the media was all over the young people\'s protest.

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The day by day showed how they were protesting

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and I think that the government was then forced into

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setting up a committee to try and calm things down a bit.

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- The Verma Report was a special judicial committee

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charged by the government of India with canvassing all

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opinion about how the problem of rape could be dealt with.

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And 80,000 responses were sifted through

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by this group of ex-senior judges.

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It was a landmark report and was striking

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in it\'s extreme liberalism.

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It made a number of very fortant recommendations.

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For instance, that things must happen much faster

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in the Indian judicial system.

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The definition of sexual assaults needed to be broadened,

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that the language of modesty and shame needed to be removed

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from the Indian penial code.

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- This was not just about rape and an amendment

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to a criminal law.

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We three were very determined that we are not

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going to let down society.

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Offenses against women was a part of the story.

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The full story needed to be told.

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We felt that we would fail that fantastic civil society

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which gathered around at the gate with candles

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if we did not tell them the true story.

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- The constitution provides for equality.

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It hasn\'t happened because the men don\'t allow it to happen.

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And they feel that that\'s they\'re hold on women.

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And also it\'s because of the historical tradition, you know,

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of patriarchy which has been over the years

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embedded into men and into women.

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- There are a whole range of indicators

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that women are not well treated.

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Short of rape, there are high incidents of acid attacks,

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high incidents of domestic beatings.

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There is, of course, the extraordinary question

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of the sex ratio differential in India.

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I.e. the notion that there are missing women,

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demographically speaking.

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Which seems to reflect a number of things

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but possibly a pre-birth sex selection and feticide.

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- In Marish and Bombay once when they discovered

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that there were 10,000 fetuses that had been destroyed,

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9,999 were female fetuses.

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- The conversation to deal with inequality

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was overdue in India.

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Everyone was there out in the open, demanding justice,

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demanding accountability.

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And when you do demand accountability,

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establishments do feel highly threatened.

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(water rushing and yelling)

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They first thought that this is a movement which can

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be dispersed by use of tear gas shells, force pipes,

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but extraordinary were these protestors.

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- [Man Narrator] One week on since the protestors

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have come out on to the streets of India cities,

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the Prime Minister has broken his silence.

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- And the protests kept coming, kept escalating

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and escalating, not just in Delhi but also in Calcutta

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and Bangalore and Mumbai.

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This was something that was actually

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quite qualitatively different.

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I actually couldn\'t recall an event

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like this in India before.

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- This was, in my view, a very important

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and momentous expression of hope by civil society.

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- [Woman Narrator] Late last night, an ambulance took off

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for Singapore with the girl.

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She\'s at the Mount Elizabeth Hospital,

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one of the best hospitals in the world

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for trauma management and organ transplant.

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- We just, our only wish today is that she recovers

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and that she comes back to us.

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- [Male Narrator] Ram Singh, one of the accused in the

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gruesome December 16 gang rape of a 23 year old girl

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allegedly committed suicide in a special cell

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in Tihar Jail this morning.

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The incident took place in jail number three

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at about 5:45 a.m.

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- Nobody is a monster that he is excluded from society.

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After all, any society which has these rapists

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has to take responsibility for them.

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And this is the first thing which the feminist callers

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who came before the Verma Committee said that

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these are our people, these men our ours.

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- If you come from a family where things like this

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are seen by those who are growing up, they tend to

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look at it very differently \'cause they\'re aware.

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My sister was given less milk than I am.

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I\'m given a whole glass of milk because everybody thinks

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in the family thinks I\'m the boy and I must get more energy.

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And my sister\'s just given a little bit of milk.

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Or she eats last of all.

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Now these are societies practices which somehow

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get embedded in the mind.

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So many of our people grow up thinking that

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a girl is less important than a boy is.

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And because she\'s less important you can do

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what you like with her.

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- [Woman Narrator] The verdict from the Juvenile Justice

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Board was delivered a short while ago on the

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juvenile charged with the gang rape of India\'s daughter.

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This young boy who was 17 years and six months at the time

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of the crime has been given the maximum sentence allowed

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for a juvenile, that is a person who is under 18 years.

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He will serve just three years in a special home.

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(reporters all talking together)

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- [Woman Narrator] At 2:30 this afternoon

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unemployed Mukesh Singh,

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bus cleaner Akshay Thakur,

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gym instructor Vinay Sharma

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and friut seller Pawan Gupta

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were sentenced to death.

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The court declared this to be the rarest of rare cases

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that warranted the death penalty and stated that

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gruesome crimes against women have become rampant.

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Defense lawyer, A. P. Singh, has reacted to the sentencing

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in a way that has exposed the mentality that is

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perhaps the biggest hurdle in the fight

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for giving women the respect they deserve.

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(people talking simultaneously)

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(pensive music)

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- The only way you can change things is education

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because education gives a girl self-importance,

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self-worth and it also teaches young men

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the value of the woman.

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- Her death has made a huge difference.

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I think that, first of all, it has really brought home

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the issue of the problems of the way women are perceived,

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young and independent women are perceived in Indian society.

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It\'s opening up a debate in India that I think hasn\'t been

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held publicly and widely about exactly what

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the relationship between men and women should be.

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- These things will change.

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It\'s only \'cause of how hard we push.

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And I think that if the young people are going to push,

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we\'re going to get it.

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(woman humming a haunting melody)

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(somber strings music)

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(reflective piano, flute and orchestra music)