A
35-year old mother of four has been killed by rebels in northeast Meghalaya
State in the latest string of sexual crimes in India.
She
was shot dead by the rebels for resisting their attempts to gang-rape her,
Police said, in the latest strings of sexual crimes to shock India.
Authorities
are saying fighters of the outlawed Garo National Liberation Army attacked a
woman in the remote South Garo Hills in Meghalaya state late on Tuesday, after
locking her husband and children inside a room before turning on her.
This
incident comes amid global outrage over the gang-rape and murder of two teenage
girls in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh last week.
On
Tuesday, the United Nations condemned the attacks on the girls, with
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon saying he was “appalled” by the Uttar Pradesh
Killings.
“We
say not to the dismissive, destructive attitude of ‘boys will be boys’,” Ban
said, referring to a controversial remark made by an Indian politician earlier
this year.
The
leader of the Samajwadi Party, Mulayam Singh Yadav, whose son Akhilesh is chief
minister of Uttar Pradesh, told an election rally in April he opposed the
recently introduced death penalty for gang-rapists, saying “boys makes mistakes”.
So
this leader is calling gang-rape of innocent women and girls a mistake made by
boys. Now I see why this devilish act has continued and even policemen are
getting in on the act. After all, it’s a mistake that boys shouldn’t be
punished for. Unbelievable! And women will vote for this party?
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