A City Without Pity

The horrific torture and death of a pretty eighteen year old Ukrainian girl has shocked the world, and it's a world that doesn't shock easily. Oksana Makar, finally and mercifully died three weeks after being found half strangled, raped, tortured, set on fire and thrown out like so much garbage into a building pit by three sadists who lured her to an apartment with evil in mind. Even after learning all that some local women blamed the victim saying "she was just a loose girl." And all because she met two of the monsters in a bar and agreed to follow them to an apartment. And all because she was young and pretty and wanted to live a little and have a little fun. Her death is a powerful indictment on a city famous for its corruption, for allowing the rich to literally get away with murder. It's an indictment on a country famous for its lack of respect for women. A country where the rich and well connected reign supreme and make their own laws. The tragedy of her life and death now shines a light into that travesty, and the world will be watching very closely to see if these three monsters get punished no matter how influential they are. But let us not forget that these three hateful characters are nothing but a product of a sick society, a society that taught them to disrespect women and treat them like dirt from an early age because women are expendable and only men are valuable.