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24-07-2023, 07:05 PM
Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Aakash Hassan
Sat 22 Jul 2023 17.26 BST
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footage emerged last week of two women in the state of Manipur being forcibly stripped, paraded naked, publicly molested and allegedly gang raped
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many were keen to emphasise, the horrific incident in the footage was not new, isolated or unknown to the authorities. Since violence erupted in the north-eastern state in early May, between the majority Meitei and minority Kuki tribes, activists and academics believe rape and sexual violence has been systematically used as a weapon in “revenge attacks” against women from the Kuki community by Meitei mobs.
“The narrative around what’s really been happening in Manipur – the heinous crimes committed against the Kuki community, the targeting of Kuki women, the use of rape as a weapon by Meitei mobs – all carried out with impunity by these groups, has been kept silent and concealed by the state,” said Kham Khan Suan Hausing, a professor of political science at the University of Hyderabad. “It wasn’t until this video went viral that this overzealous attempt by the state to control the narrative has finally been exposed.”
It was only last week, after the video of the women being abused began trending and the prime minister spoke out, that the police finally made arrests – almost 70 days after the case was filed.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/j...s-in-india
Sat 22 Jul 2023 17.26 BST
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footage emerged last week of two women in the state of Manipur being forcibly stripped, paraded naked, publicly molested and allegedly gang raped
......
many were keen to emphasise, the horrific incident in the footage was not new, isolated or unknown to the authorities. Since violence erupted in the north-eastern state in early May, between the majority Meitei and minority Kuki tribes, activists and academics believe rape and sexual violence has been systematically used as a weapon in “revenge attacks” against women from the Kuki community by Meitei mobs.
“The narrative around what’s really been happening in Manipur – the heinous crimes committed against the Kuki community, the targeting of Kuki women, the use of rape as a weapon by Meitei mobs – all carried out with impunity by these groups, has been kept silent and concealed by the state,” said Kham Khan Suan Hausing, a professor of political science at the University of Hyderabad. “It wasn’t until this video went viral that this overzealous attempt by the state to control the narrative has finally been exposed.”
It was only last week, after the video of the women being abused began trending and the prime minister spoke out, that the police finally made arrests – almost 70 days after the case was filed.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/j...s-in-india
