At least 13000 women have been raped in conflict-hit Indian State of Assam in past eight years.
New Delhi, Aug 1/Nationalturk – In a shocking revelation, it has been stated that about 13000 women have been raped in conflict-hit Indian State of Assam in past eight years.
“12857 women were raped in Assam between 2005 and May 2013. Of these, 59 victims were killed after rape,” media reports quoted officials of Assam’s Home Department as disclosing.
Stating that 12216 people were arrested for their involvement in sexual offences against women, they said the reasons attributed for increase in crimes against women included increase in population, social and family tension, gender discrimination, poverty, lack of job opportunity and insufficient manpower in the law enforcement agencies.
‘1069 dowry deaths also reported in State’
The officials said women were not only raped but were also tortured for dowry. “At least 1069 dowry deaths of women have been reported in the state during past eight years”.
They said 1,671 persons were arrested for cases related to dowry torture and deaths.
Officials further said thousands of women have been abducted in the conflict-hit Sate in last few years, “Police have registered at least 19902 cases of women abduction. About 9032 people were arrested on abduction charge and 113 of them jailed for the crime”.
Assam is India’s North Eastern state and the State has been facing turmoil since over four decades. Some militants are fighting for secessionism from India and others from homeland. The conflict in the State started in 1970s.
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Its such a shame and comes as a shock as Assam is not very big a state. The Congress ruled government is definitely blind when they boast about the progress of the state. No development is suitable to measure the progress of a state if the women and children of the society are not safe and when the men have resolved to become savage animals without conscience of any sort.
Unless proper education and development is not imparted at all levels, Assam will suffer because of the many taboos of it’s society which can be considered outright conservative. The clash of this conservativeness, the modern world and decades of armed struggle has given rise to frustration in the people. With access to television and porn where women are respectfully shown as an object of desire, the conserved culture of Assam intentionally taboos men and women from dating or having casual sex. Though this is against the law and the constitution of India, the general mindset prevails otherwise, especially in the more rural areas. Even today, Assam comes in the news for savage reasons such as witch-hunting, poaching, logging and riots. It is a big irony that even when the human race has reached the far edges of our solar system, life in the state of Assam is merely a diluted replica of the dark ages.
A note to the leaders of this forgotten state – Along with quality and compulsory education at all villages and town, especially on the subjects of social rightness, moral studies and role of women, there has to be urgent and effective sustainable development dealing with infrastructure, job creation, connectivity and a more vigilant police force. Another option would be to broadcast in live television and newspapers, on a daily basis, the stale state of women of the state, reporting to the masses about rapes and crimes against women, and following this up with messages of social conscience with the aim of abolishing the many taboos which hunder this state sadistic and barbaric.