Manipur women, stripped and raped, allege police left them to mob
Deccan ChronicleGUWAHATI: After nationwide outrage sparked by the viral video of two women from the Kuki-Zomi community being paraded naked and sexually assaulted in Manipur, one of the victims alleged that police left them to the mob. Sources in the Indigenous Tribal Leaders’ Forum while referring the accounts of victim told this newspaper that the victims in their complaints had alleged that there were five of them who were there together-- the two women seen in the video, another woman in her 50s who was also allegedly stripped, and the father and brother of the youngest woman, who they alleged were lynched to death by the mob. In their angry reaction the leaders of the Forum told this newspaper “The video of two Kuki-Zo women being paraded naked and their private parts touched by mob is a chilling account of what has been allowed to happen in Manipur under the watch of both the Central and the state governments.” He also informed that a relative of the victim filed a zero FIR, leading to the case being registered at Nongpok Sekmai police station. In a statement, the New Delhi-based Indigenous Rights Advocacy Centre, which works for the welfare of the Scheduled Tribes in India, stated that it is totally horrified by the incident of capturing of two innocent Kuki-Zo tribal women and parading them naked while sexually assaulting them by a mob of men.