Ukrainian victim of grisly rape succumbs
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March 30, 2012, Friday
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AN 18-year-old Ukrainian woman who prosecutors say was gang-raped, half-strangled and then set on fire in an attack that sparked street protests in a provincial Ukrainian town, has died, a hospital official said yesterday.
Hundreds of people took to the streets earlier this month after police freed two of Oksana Makar's three suspected attackers whose parents had political connections.
The two men were re-arrested and police disciplined after the intervention of President Viktor Yanukovich who sent an investigating team to the town of Mykolayiv in southern Ukraine.
All three young men have been charged with rape and one of them additionally with attempted murder.
Ukrainian media regularly report cases of children of the country's wealthy elite, who are known as "mazhory," escaping punishment for traffic offenses, or for more serious crimes, including causing fatal road accidents while at the wheel.
Interior Minister Vitaly Zakharchenko confirmed earlier this month that the parents of at least one of the suspects were former government officials in the Mykolaiv region.
"Lung bleeding began and then her heart activity stopped. We tried three times to revive her with defribillation," said Emil Fistal, head of the specialist burns unit where Makar was admitted.
Local media say Makar met two of the three accused in a local bar on March 10 and after spending some time there with them, went to the apartment of the third.
The reports say she was then raped and one of the attackers tried to strangle her with a cord. They subsequently wrapped her in a blanket, took her to a pit on a building site and tried to set her on fire before escaping.
Hundreds of people took to the streets earlier this month after police freed two of Oksana Makar's three suspected attackers whose parents had political connections.
The two men were re-arrested and police disciplined after the intervention of President Viktor Yanukovich who sent an investigating team to the town of Mykolayiv in southern Ukraine.
All three young men have been charged with rape and one of them additionally with attempted murder.
Ukrainian media regularly report cases of children of the country's wealthy elite, who are known as "mazhory," escaping punishment for traffic offenses, or for more serious crimes, including causing fatal road accidents while at the wheel.
Interior Minister Vitaly Zakharchenko confirmed earlier this month that the parents of at least one of the suspects were former government officials in the Mykolaiv region.
"Lung bleeding began and then her heart activity stopped. We tried three times to revive her with defribillation," said Emil Fistal, head of the specialist burns unit where Makar was admitted.
Local media say Makar met two of the three accused in a local bar on March 10 and after spending some time there with them, went to the apartment of the third.
The reports say she was then raped and one of the attackers tried to strangle her with a cord. They subsequently wrapped her in a blanket, took her to a pit on a building site and tried to set her on fire before escaping.
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