For the last few weeks, the headlines in Canada have been focussed on the Pickton trial, where a pig farmer kidnapped, brutalized and murdered so many women in Western Canada. He was found guilty earlier this week, and the newscast was inundated with the faces of the victim's families and their emotional response to the verdict.
Today, however, I read this story, of an Indian man brutalizing and kiling his wife. Atleast in the Pickton trial, I could say, the man was a maniac, unknown to the victims, and a psychopath. What can be said about a husband, who cuts his wife's tongue, tries to burn her, and then drags off to the crematorium to burn her alive on a pyre, while she screams and begs for water. This event does not have an ending - the polica arrived in time to rush the woman to the hospital where she died, but the man and his family, who helped him torture this innocent woman have 'absconded'. What does that mean? With the status of women and the police in India, it could well mean, that they all, somehow, managed to escape the police's clutches, or that he is a local big-wig, and everyone is covering up his crime. Injustice seems almost common and trivial when stories such as these are never heard or acknowledged.
Brutality and torture, when we experience these from those we love and trust, I would think that betrayal would be worse than anything else we can feel or imagine...
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