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the my name is melissa chant, thanks for joining us. we take a closer look at the violence in india where blayton use of sexual assault against women rate has been weaponized. in this latest round of clashes which started a few months ago, the majority may take community has been fighting the minority cookie tribe, leading to what officials admit had been, quote, hundreds of cases of assault. the attacks have prompted national outrage with protests and cities across the country. the conflict is taking place in the northeastern state of mount a. port dw corresponded a deal, but traveled to the region to meet the mother of one rapist survivor. this woman there is uh, not her real name. spends us scrolling through pictures on a phone, pictures of her daughter,

we call her grace. it has been nearly 3 months since she was originally raped and murdered by them. off of the majority made the people recent job and the card was, was crucial for the family life. she never had time for the simple pleasures, if an old dirty life, and had to be of hardships and difficulties from writing a sacrifice to us and to support her pharmacy or the file. she was like, my life. oh, my girlfriend isn't on the phone in the day i discovered her desk. i was like i'm yeah, be awesome. i should have lost my hands and feet. human rights will infuse from when it gets in the group. the cookie arrived to take a testimony. she tells them there has been no investigation in the case so far. well, i begin to tools when i think about health and i get more and more tens or

listening to if there is a group of women gone, told back did to her grief and sense of injustice dispelled the majority minority. i swear to the use agency, this extra violence there is light is not alone. hundreds of women need that the wall up remember ends you mind the rest of those accused of raping and getting dressed and black. they remember, and besides prayers for this did mary, beth of the social active is and the community leader. so in these come in and meet violence. it's the women who are thought of being 5, get that because the tribe is women. i feel that they pay the highest right is

because they are being correct. they are being mother. they are being sexually assaulted. the cookie community would choose up the dead on this wall. men and women, young and old, in the depth to in fall booming from the majority of the community. like this many see the cookie. people need a service and drug dealers with friends. they have heard about the sexual effects on even minutes and claims that some of your own has dated out those effects, which they denied as the woman i feel free to for them. but it is a war. the current situation off money is being war is going on. so that's all these are, you know, it was,

it was totally wrong concept. back up in the mountains, did you say distress and displaced? she reached alone for the body of a daughter and for some kind of justice. that was very striking uh, those comments from the may to a woman in the report. we have journalists to our our vala, joining us. she has covered at the country's ne, for years a welcome to the program, a tour of those comments from the may to a woman who said too bad the cookie women were raped, but, and then she explained it was wore a, that's a lack of empathy that really underscores the ethnic hate you. so can you start by explaining who these 2 groups are and, and some of the basics of this conflict. we just have to understand a little bit of the geography of money for so many port is basically a value which is surrounded by enters and of 90 percent of the geographic,

the in money where it is concentrated in the cues, while the remaining 10 percent in the is in the value in the valley is where the meet phase c, and that is all of the numerical majority. as i said earlier. and uh, so this is a small, fast enough line with no, i could speak to the surrounding it, the hills and hills numerous strides in the north, non dusty and in the south suitcase gate. this is the community which is in. this is the community which is guaranteed in conflict with the medias right now. so there's always been of work line between the value do in the mid fees and the really drives because of the, even though of, you know, those years have more than a vendor value each other. here's people on these trends that the meat, these are the one who, you know, the economic and social and political box. right. and, uh, the me page, on the other hand, basically you that the, you know, they don't have enough name. their population is boeing and, you know,

the feeling that, you know, the kids have access to land them resources so you know, ultimately boils down to, you know, natural resources. and then, and that is, that is what does at the heart of the conflict. now you've spoken to some of the women who have been raped, do we know if the sexual violence is happening on both sides? um, i have visited many board last month and i chatted, looking to riley and in the hughes. and i came across not just one, but at least for instance, of, of a so, and then some of them section to sort of the of, of which would be meaningful that the community had supported the hands of mobs. um, i found the valley through and or, you know, am i speaking to devalue about such incidents made a decent incidents also happen to make these line. many people said that they had heard or if, if no one could really, you know,

come up with an example or identify or survive a survivor, or anybody who has been, you know, domains in that particular re. um, so um for my for dies mostly of one of the incidents also infection disorders and violence. well from women in or not mean to the computer i. and i think i met at least of all women who recounted in very excruciating detail what they had gone to you know, how they were assaulted and are these details. i know there's one video which went by in and, you know, yeah, sure everyone. so and that it said it was pretty disturbing, but that was not the only case. there has been other cases where uh, you know, been that had been assaulted by logs um you know, drag out of the functions of the member on that

and know and so i guess in terms of what is the government doing about it both at the provincial and national level, it seems like they've been slow to respond and you know, prime minister and a random body didn't address the conflict, i understand for 2 months or annually did so after the video that you mentioned, why have they been slow to respond and would i be wrong to wonder whether the government has a bias against one of the ethnic groups over the other of your rightful more than 2 months. the prime minister did not after word about what was happening in money for it. oh, finally he did reading that perfect video and why and um, so yeah, it is quite interesting to see how, you know, the central and millions and what the government has led, you know, has sort of been being assignments as always have happened in one part of the country um but you know, having said that the center did try to intervene on the end of me. the union

homeland is still in the stomach shot. he had job and too many boar and you know, he had mixed communities. what sides and at that point he said that something me, you know, come out of it, but i don't think his visage really did much to, you know, i need dimensions on the ground and it continued as it passed him to days 3 months later. but no me by mr. has not really spoken about it. and um, so i mean that's one thing, but the other is we have to look at how to speed government, which is also made by the b, b, b, haven't either responded to this. um, you know, with this episode just a violence get started on a touch of me, right? so before you know, we go into what b, b, or we must remember that the chief minister of money for was heading the document or act or the state level. he is from the me, the community to be much remember that i write that some questions which we cannot

ignore it or for example, the use leave many who you know, who i mentioned before, did on or d, will be assaulted on code on selecting for me this is any more than 2 months back, even the way i met the other supervisor and she was, it was sort of a 16 to me now in many of these cases police complaints. and if i, it's look fine as early as 20, it's with me in this video and why are they, you know, people react to the deal. none of the, it wasn't investigated, none of because it's well booked, no investigation was being done. so, i mean, this is very, i mean it's, it's, it's quite like, let's say shopping because something that bad would happen and it's not like it hadn't been broken. then we'll just the police. so what, right, what, what was the administration going to that then? what was the police? how did these police complain unified of how would be ignored for so long because

in the injured have to be so a lot of you know, be talk about money for be sort of the whole minister of everything. right. and we saw or formation of 4 of the spanish, but you know, no one was really looking into. these really grew some cases which, you know, member to the community. they kept talking about it, but no one was paying attention to this video and wire. so, i mean, the only thing the lighting of this video going virus as you know higher, but as it was to watch way of re but is that, you know, ultimately the government have to, you know, sit up and take notice because otherwise the story is it has no completely been ignored and you know, going annoying tara, i drove all out. thank you so much for joining us. us. and just this week, the supreme court of india finally directed the government to form 18 to look into the sexual assaults. so far as to are pointed out, a very few arrests have been made. reports suggest only 7 in connection to the

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