Rape happens every day across the world, and while some countries take it as a crime, other countries do not give it the deserving attention.
Why do some men think they have the right to every woman, and as such choose to take the honor of women with force? Rape violates a woman-spiritually, physically, emotionally, and mentally. Most women who are raped find it difficult to recover completely, and those who do, seldom have the scars and flash back memories of the incident. Such occurrences can have severe impact on their future relationships.
Ghana, for instance, treats rape as a crime and culprits can sometimes face up to about 10 years in jail depending of the severity of a crime.
In countries like India, rape is not given the necessary ‘attention’ it deserves as a crime. Men rape women daily and even when they are caught, some are let to go free without any punishment. I recently read an article about a congressman in India who boldly walked into a woman’s room to rape her in a village.
The congressman’s name is Bikram Singh Brahma and he is with the Assam’s ruling party Congress of India. The congressman had been visiting a village of Santipur on the Bhutan border when he decided to just walk into a woman’s house to rape her. Now how sick is that?
Luck eluded him when someone raised an alarm and the villagers caught up with him just before he sat in his SUV to drive away. The villagers gave him the beatings of his life, and ripped off all his clothes….he deserved every beating he got! They, however, spared his life and eventually handed him over to the police, which is a great thing.
The recent death of a 23 year old medical student who was gang raped on the bus on her home after watching a movie with his boyfriend has brought rape cases in India into the limelight.
Rape cases are often unreported in this part of the world because the victims often feel that people may not believe them and also because of the stigma that comes along with it even though it wasn’t their fault.
Sometimes rape victims are even blamed for being raped. In India, rape is very rampant because the accusers often go free leaving the victim to bear the shame and pain.
However, it seems all this is about to change as women of India and people across the world are calling for tougher punishment for perpetrators of rape.
Women in Ghana are not second class citizens as is the case in India. Rape is wrong and no woman has to be subjected to it.
