Friday, May 24, 2013

Indian acid attack victim fights for justice

At 17, Sonali Mukherjee had everything going for her. She was a beautiful, intelligent and ambitious young woman, dedicated to excelling in her studies.But Mukherjee's life changed after three male students from her college started harassing her. She didn't respond to their advances, so they threatened to destroy her.

On a hot summer day when Mukherjee was fast asleep on the roof of her house, the three men threw a jug of acid on her. For the first few seconds she was in shock and didn't know what had happened.
"All I could feel was this tremendous amount of pain, it was burning, like someone had thrown me into a fire," she tells CNN 10 years after the 2003 attack.
In the fraction of a second it took for the acid to melt her face and part of her upper chest, Mukherjee lost her ability to see, hear, eat, walk and talk. Mukherjee, now 27, said she looked and felt like a corpse.The men who scarred her for life were freed after just two years in jail.And she believes that's is not right and she is out for justice.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/21/world/asia/india-acid-attack/index.html?hpt=wo_t5