Filmmaker Leslee Udwin recently wrapped up interviews with one of the four men convicted of raping and murdering a 23-year-old woman in 2012.
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In 2012, four men were sentenced to death for the horrific gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old medical intern in Delhi.
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The woman boarded a bus with a friend. The four men beat the woman’s friend and then each of them raped the woman before they beat her with an iron rod. The driver of the bus was a 20-year-old named Mukesh Singh.
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Singh is currently appealing his death sentence. Documentary filmmaker Leslee Udwin conducted 16 hours of interviews with Singh for her film India’s Daughter.
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While Singh denies that he took part in the assault, he did not show any remorse for what happened. “A girl is far more responsible for rape than a boy,” Singh told Udwin.
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“Housework and housekeeping is for girls, not roaming in discos and bars at night doing wrong things, wearing wrong clothes. About 20% of girls are good,” he continued. “When being raped, she shouldn’t fight back. She should just be silent and allow the rape. Then they’d have dropped her off after âdoing her’, and only hit the boy.”
Singh believes that making sexual assault punishable by death will only make things even more dangerous for girls.
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“Now when they rape, they won’t leave the girl like we did,” he said.
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Singh’s comments have caused an intense amount of controversy since the BBC published them.
* Rage… Rising…. * New Delhi rapist on victim: ‘She should just be silent and allow rape’ http://t.co/23y7Lh33oZ
— CatMean (@Jennifer)
I can’t even express my feelings on this article. ‘Delhi rapist says victim shouldn’t have fought back’ http://t.co/mHgPy7R5sb
— fPeaches1 (@Francesca Peach)
The scary thing isn’t what the Delhi rapist said.The scary thing is that most of the country agrees to every word he said.
— SatanBhagat (@Utsav Chakraborty)
There is also a large contingent of Indians who don’t agree with giving Singh any publicity.
The Delhi rapist’s reported comments to BBC are no different from the average citizen’s views on rape. Why r ppl surprised? #Delhigangrape
— annavetticad (@Anna MM Vetticad)
.@ibnlive shame on India’s English media. By giving this monster a platform u have imperiled lives of even more women. Greedy sleaze-bags.
— govindnishar (@Govind Nishar)
India’s Daughter will be broadcast on BBC Four’s Storyville and India’s NDTV this Sunday.
Read more: http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/delhi-gang-rapist-says-a-woman-should-just-be-silent-and-all