I can't believe this. These are not human beings -- they are animals.
At 4:43 PM -0500 11/26/07, Ram Dhar wrote:
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>http://www.ibnlive.com/videos/53043/guwahati-residents-strip-beat-up-women-protestors.html<http://www.ibnlive.com/news/guwahati-residents-strip-beat-up-women-protestors/53043-3.h>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:10:55 -0600
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [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 Guwahati
27 Nov 2007, 0001 hrs IST , TNN
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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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