Should the Indian Gang Rape Victim Remain Anonymous? [View all]
By Krista MahrJan. 04, 2013
... For weeks, protesters and newspapers have used a series of symbolic names to refer to the 23-year-old physiotherapy student that died on Dec. 29 due to injuries inflicted on her during a brutal gang rape last month. One network calls her “the Braveheart”; another calls her “Amanat,” or treasure. That’s because Indian law prohibits that the name of victims of rape to be made public, and the Indian press, which has reported extensively on the victim’s family, friends and hometown, has taken great care to obscure any details that may out her identity ...
... Earlier this week, Minister of Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor wondered aloud on his popular Twitter feed what, exactly, was the purpose of keeping the victim’s name shrouded in secrecy: “Why not name&honour her as a real person w/own identity?” he wrote on January 1. “Unless her parents object, she should be honoured & the revised anti-rape law named after her. She was a human being w/a name, not just a symbol” ...
... Support for Tharoor’s idea has come from protesters, activists, and now the victim’s father. He told news network CNN-IBN that naming the revised anti-rape law after his daughter would be “a step in the right direction” in a recent interview. “A law named after an individual, for whom the entire country came together, will obviously be much more effective,” he said ...
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