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An 8-year-old’s gang rape leaves India numb—but some defend it

April 15, 2018

Some five years after a gang rape incident roiled India, the country is in the throes of another bout of outrage—this time over the violation and murder of a young girl in the Kathua region of the restive Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) state.

On January 10, an eight-year-old Muslim girl, part of the nomadic Bakerwal tribe, was abducted while she was out grazing her family’s horses. Her body was found in the forest a week later. It emerged that six men, all Hindus, had reportedly conspired to drug, rape, and eventually murder her. Their alleged intention was to scare the Bakerwals out of the area. The brutal crime plays into the deep and long-running religious conflict in J&K.

It’s hard to pick what’s most sickening, the crime itself or the nature of support the alleged perpetrators have received. While many Indians have taken to the streets, Facebook, and Twitter to express shock, grief, and fury over the situation, not everyone is on the same page.

Back in February, over 5,000 people affiliated to a local Hindu nationalist group marched, waving the Indian Tricolour, to protest the arrest of special police officer Deepak Khajuria. The protesters claimed that Khajuria, one of the accused in the case, had been framed. They were joined by ministers in the J&K government, who are also members of India’s ruling Hindu nationalist Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP).

Since then, the backers of the accused have been seen and heard invoking religion and nationalism, raising slogans like Bharat mata ki jai (Hail Mother India) and Jai Shri Ram (Hail Ram). To add to the noxious atmosphere, even a section of lawyers in the deeply polarised state has vociferously come out in support of the accused—last week, they tried to stop the police from filing charges in a local court. The case has sparked some incredibly depraved responses on social media, too.





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Re: She's only 8 but some still "defend" it...pretty sad and sick IMO
« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2018, 06:13:20 AM »
After reading the article, I got the impression that supporters are "defending" one of the accused. So we'll have to wait and see the outcome of the case. Innocent until proven guilty?



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