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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 us 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 of 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 and had to be of hardships and difficulties from writing a sacrifice to us and to support her find the file. she was like, my life. yeah. 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 the group. the cookie arrived to take a testimony. the spaces, 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 listing took. there is

a group of women gone, told back did her grief and sense of injustice dispelled the majority minority to the usage of sexual 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 to the social elective is and the community leader. so in this coming ethnic violence, it's the women who are thought of being fat and get that because that tribe is women. i feel that they pay the highest right is because they are being rep,

they are being mother. they are being sexually assaulted, the cookie community would pictures of the dead on this wall, men and women, young and old, or in the depth to in fall semen from the majority of the community. like this many see the cookie. people do that as there is drug dealers grants. who would about the sexual effects on cookie women and claims that some of your own had carried out. there was a fax, which they denied as the woman. i feel sleepy for them, but it is a war. the current situation of money poor is doing why 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. 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 for it is basically a value. but just to be owned by interest and of 90 percent of the geographic the in money where is concentrated in the kid is 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 numerical majority, as i said earlier, and uh, so this is, it's more fast enough line even though i can speak to surrounding it either he does and he does numerous strides in the north, non dusty and in the south suitcase. the. this is the community colleges and this is the community which is going to be in conflict with the medias right now. so there's always been of work line between the value ending mit these and the didn't really drives because of the, even though of you know, that he does have more than a vendor values or the huge people on these trends that the meet. these are the one who, you know, the economic and social and political box. right. and uh, the maples, on the other hand, basically you that the, you know, they don't have enough land that population is growing 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 had visited money for last month. i know i traveled both in the valley and in the hills. um i came across uh not just one but at least a short incidence of a so and then some of them section is sort of ego of which would be meaningful that the community had suffered at the hands of mobs. um, i found the valley through and you know, am i speaking to the valley about 2nd seduce me. there are these kind of incidents also happen to make these lines. uh many people said that they had heard of it. no one could really uh, you know, come up with an example or uh, identify

a survival of survival or anybody who has been, you know, victimize 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 belonging to the computer. i. and i think i met at least of all women who recounted in very excruciating b b, what they had gone through, you know, how they were assorted and are these details. i know there's one video which went right in and, you know, yeah, sure everyone. so and that excel was pretty disturbing, but that is 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 modi 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 minds? the minister did not after word about what was happening in mind for oh, finally he did reading that terrific video and why and um, so yeah, it is why it's 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. chuck, 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 the past of today's 3 months later. but no, the brand new still 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, 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 you 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 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 the way 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 is 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 if it's not like it hadn't been broken, then we'll just the police. so what, right, what, what was the administration doing in that then what was the police? how did these police complain? it's been a fire 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 do some cases which, you know, been watching the community. they kept talking about it, but no one was paying attention to this video and wired. so, i mean, the only thing the lighting of this video going virus as you know higher, but as it was the 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 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 viral video where an entire mob of men from perpetrators to enablers were present.

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