Need to stop the carnage: VK Singh

December 29, 2012 11:01

Former Army Chief Gen V K Singh today condoled the death of the 23-year-old gang-rape victim in Singapore and asked people to cut across party lines and come together to stop this "carnage".

"We live in our individual cocoons of comfort and hope something drastic doesn't happen to us that will shatter our little worlds," Gen Singh, who took part in protests over the gang-rape incident, said.

"Today, a major part of our collective soul has died and our voices can only helplessly express our anguish at what not just this brave girl has gone through, but what each and every rape victim goes through in our land," he said in a statement.

Singh said physical rape is invariably followed by mental trauma unleashed "by a society and a system that is cold, callous and completely insensitive to the plight of countless victims".

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