[Naratengonti]

There is outrage in India over a video of tribal women being paraded naked and assaulted - with one allegedly gang raped during the incident in the northeastern state of Manipur.

It happened on 4 May in Thoubal district in the majority Meitei-dominated valley, less than 20 miles from the state capital Imphal.

The women from the Kuki-Zomi tribe are shown being paraded naked by dozens of men who were assaulting them.

They later filed a police complaint saying one of them had been gang raped.

Ethnic violence has caused chaos in the region in recent months, with more than 130 killed, tens of thousands displaced and temples, churches and homes burned down.

In their statement, the women said hundreds of people from the majority community, some carrying weapons, had entered their village and began looting and burning homes.

They said five of them ran towards the forest for safety.

The women were found by police, but the mob seized them a mile short of the police station.

The father of a 20-year-old woman was killed and three women were made to strip at gunpoint before being led around naked.

The youngest woman was raped in front of them and her brother was killed when he tried to protect her.

The women managed to escape and were taken to a relief camp.

"My heart is full of pain and anger, what has happened to the daughters of Manipur can never be forgiven," said Prime Minister

https://news.sky.com/story/gang-rape...nipur-12924094

[GODREKR]

Gang rape investigated as video shows abducted Indian women being paraded naked in Manipur

20 July 2023, India-There is outrage in India over a video of tribal women being paraded naked and assaulted - with one allegedly gang raped during the incident in the northeastern state of Manipur.

It happened on 4 May in Thoubal district in the majority Meitei-dominated valley, less than 20 miles from the state capital Imphal.

The women from the Kuki-Zomi tribe are shown being paraded naked by dozens of men who were assaulting them.

They later filed a police complaint saying one of them had been gang raped.

Ethnic violence has caused chaos in the region in recent months, with more than 130 killed, tens of thousands displaced and temples, churches and homes burned down.

In their statement, the women said hundreds of people from the majority community, some carrying weapons, had entered their village and began looting and burning homes.

They said five of them ran towards the forest for safety.

The women were found by police, but the mob seized them a mile short of the police station.

The father of a 20-year-old woman was killed and three women were made to strip at gunpoint before being led around naked.

The youngest woman was raped in front of them and her brother was killed when he tried to protect her.

The women managed to escape and were taken to a relief camp.

"My heart is full of pain and anger, what has happened to the daughters of Manipur can never be forgiven," said Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

"The incident is shameful for the country, the guilty will not be spared."

India's chief justice, DY Chandrachud, called it "deeply disturbing and simply unacceptable".

"Using women as an instrument in an area of communal strife. It's the grossest of constitutional abuse... If the government does not act, we will," he said.

Under mounting pressure, police made their first arrest 78 days after the incident, detaining a 32-year-old man seen in the video wearing a green T-shirt.

Police have registered a case of abduction, gang rape and murder against unknown people and are trying to identify others in the video.

Manipur's chief minister, Biren Singh, promised firm action and said capital punishment would be considered.

The Indigenous Tribal Leaders' Forum (ITLF) said the video showed men constantly molesting the helpless women, who cry and plead with their captors.

Tens of thousands displaced

Ethnic clashes have taken place since the start of May between the politically-dominant Meitei Hindu community of the valley and the Christian Kuki-Zomi tribals who live in the hills.

It began when the state high court, on the government's recommendation, gave the Meitei 'tribal' status - entitling them to the same benefits and quotas as the minority Kuki-Zomi.

A protest by tribal students on the 3 May escalated into violence on both sides and more than 130 people have been killed and thousands injured.

Over 60,000 people from both communities have been displaced and many live in relief camps.

Hundreds of homes, businesses, churches and Hindu temples have also been burned down.

Some 10,000 army and paramilitary soldiers have been deployed across the state to restore law and order. Curfew and restrictions on movement have been put in place in sensitive areas.

Both communities have formed armed vigilante groups that have put up bunkers and carry out patrols to protect their neighbourhoods.

The internet has also been shut down since the violence started.

The ethnic clashes have widened the schism between the two communities and the latest incident will make peace even harder in the strife-torn state.

[foxfantastic]

LMFAO
What's the point of censoring the face and goodies if you're just gonna show them in the video anyway .

Yeah, there's gonna be hell to pay for this

[Naratengonti]

Awful stuff. But it's my impression that gang rape and naked parading by mobs are pretty usual in rural India.

[GODREKR]

Originally Posted by foxfantastic ↗

LMFAO
What's the point of censoring the face and goodies if you're just gonna show them in the video anyway .

Yeah, there's gonna be hell to pay for this

I know, but I didn't do it. I just added them with the video for dramatic effect. Did it work?

[kellyhound]

Now four men have been arrested in connection with the case of two women who were stripped naked, publicly paraded and allegedly gang raped in the Indian state of Manipur.

The arrests took place on Thursday, a day after the footage of the assault prompted anger across India and was condemned by the prime minister, Narendra Modi, and the supreme court. The police said more arrests were expected soon.

One of the women in the video alleged that police had handed them over to the mob who carried out the violence, who belonged to the majority Meitei tribe.

The widely circulated footage prompted Modi to make his first public comments on the unrest – after being heavily criticised for months of silence – in which he said the “entire country has been shamed” by the incident.

According to accounts of activists in Manipur, this was not an isolated incident, and several Kuki women became the target of sexual assault and rape by Meitei mobs when the ethnic conflict first broke out, after fake news spread that Kukis were raping and killing Meitei women.

[depraved1]

So it is a battle between kooky ppl and maitais??

sounds like they are all crazy drunks!