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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 rape survivor. this woman there is not her 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 him 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. he 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 to. oh my friend and i would have definitely discovered her desk. i was like, i'm yeah, i be awesome. i shouldn't have lost my hands and feet. human rights will infuse from when it gets in the group, the cookie arrive 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. the listing took, 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 this come in ethnic violence, it's the women who are thought of being 5, get that because the travelers, 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 depths to him falls, women from the majority of the community, like this many see the cookie. people need as serious drug dealers grants. who would about the sexual effects on cookie women and claims that some of your own had carried out those effects, which they denied. as the woman, i feel sleepy for them, but it is a war. the current situation off 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 he say distress and misplaced? she rates alone for the body of her daughter and for some kind of justice that was very striking. 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 got 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. why are the remaining 10 percent

in the is in the value in the valley is where the mid 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 may be as 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 values. but here's people all of these trends that the meet, 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 bullying and you know,

the feeling that, you know, the kids have access to land on 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 am the i chatted both in the valley and in the hills. 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 mean from the book the community had suffered at the hands of mobs. um, i found the valley through and or, you know, am i speaking to the valley about 2nd students made a decent incidence 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 or survive a survivor or anybody who has been,

you know, it's amazing 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 detail what they had gone through. 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, drag out of the questions of the stuff. give me one 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 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? you are a little more than 2 minds. the minister did not after word about what is happening in my foot. oh, finally he did reading that perfect video and why and um, so yeah, it is quite interesting to see how, you know, the standoff and, and, and what the government has led, you know, has sort of been deemed assignments is 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 home in his stomach,

stomach shot he had dropped into many boar and you know, he had much communities, what sides? and at that point, he said that something me, you know, come out of it, but i don't think it's visited really did much do, you know, and the dimensions on the ground. and it continued as a test of today 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 the speed of government, which is also made by the b, b, b, haven't either responded to this. um, you know, with this, if this orders of items get started on to, to 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 based community. so we must remember that i write that some questions which we cannot ignore at all. for example,

the use with many who, you know, who i met and reported on a d will be a short 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 one of the sort of the 16 to me now in many of these cases police complaints. and if i, it's will file as early as 20. it's with me, this video and why are they, you know, people react to the deal. none of the, it wasn't investigated. uh, 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 going to that then? what was the police? how did these police complains unified of how would be ignored for so long?

because in the end do them to be so a lot of you know, be talk about and many were be saw, the whole minister of everything. right. and we saw or formation of 4 of these spanish, but you know, no one was really looking into these really groups and cases which, you know, member to the community. they get talking about it, but no one is paying attention to this video and wire. so, i mean, the only thing the lining of this video going virus as you know higher, but as it was, watch way of re but is that people, 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, born, i'm doing tara, i got a viola. 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. but there is now national pressure for justice. that's it for the program. as always you can head to our website, d, w dot com, forward slash asia for more or check us out on social media, including on x, formerly known as twitter. i melissa john, thanks for watching. good by the a ticking time bomb on the distiller. a deacon mission to chemical plants threatens deploys in poland, the largest river toxic waste is contaminating the soil and seating into the ground water. one resident tries to warn officials, but their response has been hostility,

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