infact it did happen ..
Please note - you may find this video content very very disturbing.
Really shocked to see this happening in our Gauhati.
CNN-IBN video-
http://www.ibnlive.com/videos/53043/guwahati-residents-strip-beat-up-women-protestors.html
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:10:55 -0600From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL
PROTECTED]: [Assam] Mob strips woman protester in Guwahati - Times of India
This news, IF TRUE, is a darn shame, and if it is NOT, then we should all join
hand in vehemently protesting to the TOI, and demand that the publish
clarifications prominently and apologize to Assam & her people.
--Ram
Mob strips woman protester in Guwahati27 Nov 2007, 0001 hrs IST ,TNNSMS NEWS to
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GUWAHATI: Like in most bandhs and protests, poor adivasi workers from the once
lush tea gardens of Assam did dent business and damage some property as they
marched through Guwahati to demand inclusion in the Scheduled Tribes list which
will help them get easier access to education and jobs. But it was one adivasi
woman who bore the brunt of the anger of local residents. She was attacked, her
clothes were ripped off and a mob chased the naked woman along the streets.
Ducking from prying eyes and TV cameras and terrified by screams of a mob
chasing her, the woman ran until some other residents rescued her on Saturday
and gave her clothes and cover both from the lathi-wielding police and the
assailants. Two days later, after the protests spiralled as news of the attack
on the woman got out, Assam's CM Tarun Gogoi said he was enraged by the crowd
behaviour and police said three of the assailants had been arrested. He
announced a Rs 1 lakh compensation for the woman, whose identity was not
disclosed. "I am horrified by the incident. I cannot believe how people can be
so inhuman and barbaric. Everybody seems to have lost their sense," said Gogoi
on Monday. The CM also announced a judicial inquiry into Saturday's violence.
Police said three men were picked up from their houses early Monday. They were
identified as Prasenjit Chakravorty (28), owner of a fast food joint, Ratul
Barman (18), a hotel waiter, and Sudip Chakdar (20), a pan shop owner.
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha chief Sibu Soren, who has pitched in for Assam's adivasi
migrants, said the incident demonstrated the racial hatred for tribals. "I have
also led many agitations, but never had we targeted women. Adivasis across the
country are always looked down upon and do not get the respect they deserve
from people and the government as a whole," Soren said on Monday after visiting
injured protesters. Former Jharkhand CM Babulal Marandi also waded in as the
bandh took a tribal vs non-tribal hue. He flew into Guwahati Monday afternoon
and went straight for a press conference with the main opposition party Assam
Gana Parishad (AGP). "This is a conspiracy hatched by Congress government," he
charged. Although Guwahati remained largely peaceful in the last phase of the
36-hour protest that began on Saturday, the stripping incident gave it a new
impetus in many areas where the sponsors, the All Adivasi Students' Association
of Assam, had clout. Sporadic violence was reported and bandh supporters
attacked one vehicle at Karigaon in Kokrajhar district, killing one person and
injuring two others. So far, at least six people have been killed in clashes
between adivasi activists and local people. About 250 people have been injured
in police action or clashes.
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