JUSTICE FOR INDIAN TRIBAL GIRL STRIPPED NAKED AND PHOTOGRAPHED BY MEDIA DURING DEMONSTRATIONS
December 16th 2007 03:09
Three youths have been arrested over an incident at a demonstration in Indian where a young girl was stripped naked and chased.
Horrific pictures were shown on Indian television and in newspapers of the naked Adivasi tribal girl being chased and assaulted in full view of the public during Saturday’s retaliatory attack on Adivasi protesters by some residents in the city of Guwahati (see MediaBlab archive.)
This led to widespread criticism of some sections of the Indian media.
Senior superintendent of police Surendra Kumar told The Hindu daily newspaper that a case has now been registered against the three on charges of attempt to rape, attempt to murder and outraging the modesty of the girl.
They will be produced in court on tomorrow.
Other photographs showed the girl, who was disrobed by the attackers, pleading for mercy with folded hands.
Some onlookers came to the rescue of the traumatised girl, who was running to save her life, and gave her clothes.
Police also arrested five senior leaders of the All-Adivasi Students Association of Assam, and they jailed on charges of causing communal violence and damage to public property, among others.
The student body took out a rally on Saturday to press for inclusion of Santal Adivasis and tea-tribes in the list of Scheduled Tribes.
The tea-tribes of Assam and surrounding districts are among the most exploited tribes in India. Anthropologically, they have negroid features, and are basically labourers, living in villages inside tea-estates in remote areas.
Exploitation by tea planters, including very low wages and poor work standards, non-education, poverty, addiction of males to country-beer, poor standards of living and lack of health facilities are mostly their lot. There are instances when tea-planters do not even supply life-saving drugs when workers are dying out of epidemics
- From MediaBlab
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