Girls Raped Then Hung in Uttar Pradesh, India, Force Focus on Rape Worldwide by Phyllis Chesler Breitbart May 29, 2014 http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1312/girls-raped-then-hung-in-uttar-pradesh-india Print Send RSS Share: Be the first of your friends to like this. Early Thursday, two teenage Indian girls, aged 14 and 15, cousins, were found dead, hanging from a mango tree, in Uttar Pradesh, where their heartless gang-rapists had left them. Both are Dalits, formerly considered "untouchables." One (or possibly two) men are in custody; two or three more men are being sought. Three police officers have been removed from duty because they did not register the girls as missing when their families first reported it. One or possibly two police officers have, reportedly, been arrested for having sided with the criminals and delayed acting on a report of the missing girls. The superintendent of police said, "We now believe the girls were assaulted for their low caste." A post mortem determined that, indeed, they had been gang-raped and then hung. Despite the fact that India is a constitutional democracy and a modern country, caste still plagues the country. Hindu honor killings are perpetrated mainly for reasons of caste-violation. In general, Dalits may be viewed as even more justifiable prey than other women—even by other Dalit men. One police officer believes this was a Dalit-on-Dalit crime. » CONTINUE READING Related Topics:  Gender, Honor Killings, Rape

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