The actions taken by the husband in the bride kidnapping video evidence that a Rape...

The kidnapping and the rape go hand in hand because had Kubanti not kidnapped his bride there would be no rape. Kubanti started a chain of events that lead to the rape of the girl he kidnapped. Kubanti"s actions caused a domino effect. The blood stained sheet in reality wasn"t going to be something I was going to point out but now that you brought it up I would be happy to expand on the notion of displaying the blood stained sheet. It is tradition for them to hang up the sheet after the consummation of the marriage to prove the actual consummation of the marriage. If the marriage was not consummated there would be no sheet hanging but since there is it can be safely presumed that the marriage was consummated which means there was an act of the sexual nature, which resulted in the trauma to girl"s hymen. Said trauma would have not occurred had she had been left doing whatever it was that she was going to do that day and had not been kidnapped. In this case her kidnapping lead to her rape; her kidnapping equals her rape. The definitions of rape were simply brought up to show the varieties of crimes that Kubanti is guilty of. While it is true that the first definition of rape was severely vague it stands true to Kubanti"s case. For hundreds of years the word rape has also been used in place of the word kidnapping, i.e. the sculpture by Bermini entitled The Rape of Persephone portrays the daughter of Greek goddess Demeter being raped or kidnapped by Hades. In this instance Kubanti is guilty of that form of rape. In the issue of Kubanti"s aunts being the source of force that enabled the rape, which my opponent says is a mistake, I would like to remind the actions taken by the aunt could have onlt occurred if Kubanti forcibly brought his bride to be home via kidnapping. The jobs of the aunts were to get the girl to accept the marital scarf by any means necessary, which they did. The way that they chose to get the girl to accept the scarf was by physically restraining her and preventing her from leaving the tent. Kubanti himself did not have to apply physical restrain after he forced her in the car; he had his aunts for that. Once the aunt successfully got the girl to accept the scarf there was no need for force, the girl was tired and knew that they would not let her leave anyway. Under duress she accepted her fate. Although my opponent makes a good point in saying that " "consummating a marriage," is not actually rape, this is a sexual act voluntarily entered into in order to performatively affirm the institution of marriage by a couple. Thus, by my opponent"s own words, it seems that they do not actually perceive this circumstance to be an instance of rape" I must restate that the marriage was forced upon her, she wanted no part in it at that time. Like I stated before she wanted to wait until she was done with her schooling and get married in a different manner but she was kidnapped and forced into a marriage, where she would be forced to fulfill all the duties of a newly wed Kyrgyz bride, including the consummation of the marriage. With that being said Kubanti is guilty of rape.