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the my name is melissa chan. 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 a real name. spends pause,

scrolling through pictures on a phone, a big joseph a doctor. we cause a grease. it has been nearly 3 months since she was originally raped and murdered by them. off of the majority meant the people, recent shopped in the car was, was crucial for the family life. she never had time for the simple pleasures of an old dirty life. he had to leave hardships and difficulties finding a sacrifice to us and to support to find the file. she was like, my life. oh my friend isn't on the phone in the day i discovered her desk. i was like, i'm yeah, they listen. i said last, 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. i begin to tools when i think about health

and i get more and more tens listening to if there is a group of women gone, told back this is a grief and sense of injustice dispelled the boat. the majority minority to the use agency, this extra violence there is light is not alone. hundreds of them in need that the wall up remember ends you mind the rest of those accused of raping and dressing black. they remember, and besides prayers for this did mary beth of the social activism and the community

leader. so in this cut in ethnic violence, it's the women who are thought of being 5 get that because that childless lehman, 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 capital in fall, women from the majority of the community, like this many see the cookie. people do that as there is drug dealers. grants, they have heard about the sexual attacks on cookie women and claims that some of your own had dated out those effects, which they denied as the woman, i feel sleepy 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 city side, distressed and displaced, she reached alone for the body of her daughter and for some kind of justice. that was very striking uh those comments from the made 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 for it is basically a value which is around by enters and of 90 percent of the geographic. the in money is concentrated in the cues. why are the remaining 10 percent in the is in the value in the valley is where the phase c and that is all the new medicine majority . as i said earlier, and uh, so this is a small and fast enough line with no, i can see the surrounding it all the hills and hills. numerous strides in the north, non dusty and in the south suitcase state. this is the community colleges and 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 ending mit these and the drilling drives because of the, even though of you know, that he does have more than a vendor values or the heres people on these trends that the meet. these are the one who, you know, the economic and social and political right in the me page. on the other hand,

basically you that the, you know, they don't have enough name. that population is boring and you know, the feeling that you know, that he does 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. i know i tried to look into 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 ego of which would be meaningful that the community had suffered at the hands of mobs. um, i found the valley to and or, you know, am i speaking to devalue about, sec, incidents made

a decent incidents also happened 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 a survival of survival or anybody who has been, you know, it's amazing that particular re. 2 so um, for my for dies mostly of one of the incidents also infection disorders and violence. well from women in or not into the computer. i. and i think i met at least of 4 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 fly in and, you know, yeah, sure everyone. so and that it said it was pretty disturbing, but that is not the only case. there has been other cases where uh you know, been and had been assaulted by logs. um, you know, uh,

dragged out of the functions of the member or no. 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 in the run devoting 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. as you are a little more than 2 minds, the prime minister did not after word about what was happening in money for it. oh, finally he did reading that terrific video and why and um, so yeah, it is quite interesting to see how you know, the send go 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 same do it did try to intervene or the end of me, the union homeland is still in the stomach. chuck, he had job and too many boar and you know, he had mixed communities. what sides and at that point, you mean he said that something me, you know, come all to page, but i don't think is really, really that much to, you know, i need dimensions on the ground and it continued as a passive today, 3 months later. but know me by mister 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 the speed of government, which is also made by the b b, b has 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 the deed are. we must remember that the chief minister of money who was heading the document or up to 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, we use the many who you know, who i met and reported on a d will be a slower dude on code. on selecting for me, this is any more than 2 months back. even though i'm the one who i met the other supervisor and she was, was sort of going to seem 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 happened and it's not like it hadn't been broken and 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 completing the unified of how would they ignored what's going on? 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 goose. and this is which, you know, been watching the community. they kept talking about it, but no one was paying attention to this video and why. and so, i mean, the only single lighting of this video going virus as you know higher, but as it was to watch way we but is that people, you know, ultimately the government have to, you know, sit up and take notice because otherwise, these stories, it has no completely been ignored and you know, going annoying tara, i got vala. thank you so much for joining us. it's. 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 our pointed out, a very few arrests have been made. reports suggest only 7 in connection to the viral video where an entire mob of men from perpetrators to enablers were present. but there is now national pressure for justice. that's it for the program as always you can head to our website dw, dot com, forward slash asia for more or check us out on social media, including on x, formerly known as twitter. i. melissa janice, thanks for watching. good by the, enjoying the views and come to take a look at this. out to the highlights. every week. email inbox,

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