INDIAN ARMY, RAPE US
The rape in
Delhi has shocked India. Has it really? Or was it the sight of thousands of
young students, male and female, demonstrating on the streets and being
assaulted by the police for daring to demonstrate that made some Indian
citizens think seriously about the problem? As for the Congress government that
has, like most of the opposition parties, tolerated this for decades, it was
the bad publicity abroad that finally did the trick, but only as far as this
case is concerned.
Rape takes
place in police stations, in military barracks, in the streets and occasionally
in some provincial parliaments. The feminist Communist parliamentarian Brinda
Karat, who has long campaigned on the issue, pointed to the assault of a member
of the Trinamool assembly by a male oppositionist on 11 December last year.
‘Women were not safe even inside the assembly,’ she said.
Legal
activists in Kashmir and Manipur, occupied by the Indian Army, have produced
report after report highlighting cases of women raped by soldiers.
Response from the top brass: nil. In a country where the culture of rape is so
embedded, only a determined effort on every level can change things. This will
not happen if this case and others are forgotten.
In 2004, a
group of middle-aged mothers were so enraged by the military raping their
daughters and sisters that they organised a protest unique in the annals
of the women’s movement. They gathered outside the Indian Army barracks,
stripped, and held up a banner that read ‘Indian Army Rape Us.’ That
image, too, shocked India, but nothing changed. Only a few weeks later another
rape scandal erupted in Manipur. If the Indian state is incapable of defending
its women, perhaps the world’s largest democracy should seriously consider a
change of name. Rapeistan comes to mind.
Posted
by
Parmjit
Singh Sekhon (Dakha)
President
Dal Khalsa Alliance
Hindus-Brahmins-Terrorism
in India,
INDIAN
Hindus-Brahmins-TERRORIST,
AND
INDIA TERRORIST COUNTRY
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IT
IS TIME TO DECLARE
INDIA
AS A TERRORIST COUNTRY
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