Gang-rape victim dies, PM says death won't go in vain

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Gang-rape victim dies, PM says death won't go in vain

Today early at 4.45 a.m  A young woman who was  gang-raped and tortured in the capital of India .She was  died in Singapore early Saturday. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh  said it was up to "us all to ensure that her death will not have been in vain".

The victim, whose name has not been revealed, "passed away peacefully at 4.45 a.m.  with her distraught family and Indian diplomats by her side, Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Hospital's Kelvin Loh said. 

The 23-year-old woman she was suffered  from multiple-organ failure after she was raped by six males, including a juvenile, in a moving bus in Delhi for around 40 minutes Dec 16 and dumped her by a roadside.

The girl was travelled with his friend he is  also badly beaten up and thrown out from the bus.

The  six accused have been arrested and now they are in  Delhi's Tihar Central Jail.

Authorities in India shifted the woman, who had been on ventilator support since her rape, to Singapore Thursday in a last ditch attempt to save her life.

"Despite all efforts by a team of eight specialists in Mount Elizabeth Hospital to keep her stable, her condition continued to deteriorate over these two days," Loh said.

"She had suffered from several organs failure due to the rape and also  following serious injuries to her body and brain.

"She was courageous in fighting for her life for so long against the odds but the trauma to her body was too severe for her to overcome."

B.D. Athani, medical superintendent of Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital, said the woman had been speaking to her mother and other family members earlier, giving the impression that she would somehow survive.

But her condition deteriorated rapidly after a third operation, with a fatal infection spreading to her chest, lungs and intestine, he said.

Expressing his deepest condolences, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said it was up to "us all to ensure that her death will not have been in vain" and India becomes "a demonstrably better and safer place for women to live in".

He said he joined the nation "in conveying to her family and friends" his deepest condolences at this "terrible loss".

"I want to tell them and the nation that while she may have lost her battle for life, it is up to us all to ensure that her death will not have been in vain.

India's High Commissioner to Singapore, T.C.A. Raghavan, said the woman's family was "shattered".

"It was very trying for the family. The girl of course was unconscious," he said. "I must say they (the family) bore the entire process with a great deal of fortitude and courage."

He said her body would be flown to India Saturday afternoon.

The prime minister said already we have seen the emotions and also energies this incident has been generated and now these  are perfectly understandable reactions from a young India and an India that genuinely desires change.

"The need of the hour is a dispassionate debate and inquiry into the critical changes that are required in societal attitudes.

"The government is examining, on priority basis, the penal provisions that exist for such crimes and measures to enhance the safety and security of women."

The horrific gang-rape, in which the crucial gang rape they used an iron rod to torture her, triggered angry demonstrations across india against growing sexual crimes against women. A policeman died in one such protest in Delhi.

The Indian government vowed to fast track the trial of the accused.