Manipur: India outrage after women paraded naked in violence-hit state – BBC News

 

let's turn our attention now to Manipur

in India where a group of women have

attacked the home of the main suspect in

a high-profile sexual assault case

that's triggered widespread protests the

suspect was identified in a video which

has been widely shared on social media

and it shows two women being paraded

naked through the streets and assaulted

by a mob the incident happened in May

during an outbreak of ethnic violence so

let's go to Manipur now and speak to

nitin srivastava who's there for us now

and I mean I know this only happened

this happened back in May but it was it

was the release of this video on social

media that has caused such a huge

reaction around India and now we've had

this talk us through what's happened

today because there's also been some

arrests haven't there

well yes uh the police have opened the

case of gang rape and they have arrested

four men and they've claimed and they

have said that they'll be making more as

soon uh but the fact is that uh the

question that is being asked widely not

just here in India but everywhere else

is why did it take them so long

precisely 62 days since the complaint

was launched uh by the family of the

women who were stripped and paraded by a

mob and uh our video became uh viral on

social media that has been the police

acted that is the big question but now

uh there is more anger in the streets

yesterday evening thousands of people

from the cookie Community the cookie

Christian Community from which the women

belong to they protested they wanted

more action more Assurance from the

government the metis have also protested

beforehand against alleging violence

against that so it's all uh sort of a

boiling down to blame games accusations

and both the parties blaming each other

for the continuing ethnic violence in

this beautiful North Indian State and

one of the authorities said in their

defense as to why they've taken them so

long long to look into this

well the authorities have been saying

that they are overflooded with

complaints they say that the it's been

more than two months of uh ethnic

communal violence in the state they say

that 60 000 people have been displaced

more than 130 dead they have been

dealing with almost 6 000 complaints so

it's not possible for the administration

to uh uh sort of get into everything

immediately but uh let me say that there

has the response really has been slow it

could have been much much better

especially in cases where uh rape

incidents of violence and crimes have

been committed and there has been proof

okay thanks very much for now Newton's

River stava for us in Manipur thank you

for your time