LEts talk abt all the bastards supported by screwed bigotsand blindly biased bastards.
or shud say liberal thinker
world peace activist
freedom seeker
See the full report
http://72.14.235.104/search?q=cache:scag7HN-NeoJ:www.onlinevolunteers.org/gujarat/reports/iijg/2003/chapter3.pdf+hindu+rapists&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8Threatened Existence: A Feminist Analysis of the Genocide in Gujarat Report by the International Initiative for Justice (IIJ) December 2003Chapter 3 Centrality of Sexual Violence and Sexuality to the Hindutva ProjectRapes,
especially gang rapes, have functioned as one of the central planks of the sexualised violence that took place in Gujarat. We went to AA5 area. Young men came and started beating us and asked us to leave. Then we went into AA6 area. Again the people from AA6 area people started beating us up. We again started running. We saw smoke, they told us tyres are burning. Lots of women, children were running. We went running there, we saw on the road between AA6 area and the State Transport depot, many girls were stripped and were being raped. Girls were shouting. I saw 4-5 girls being raped… Hindu men AHM14, AHM15, his son AHM16, AHM17 (all from AA6 area) were doing all this…. While raping the girls, the men were shouting
har har mahadev.
In AA56 area, D.C.P. Sawani himself entered the house and beat up small girls, beat up women. One woman who was six months pregnant had an abortion. They said, “We will keep all your men and make you prostitutes.” They used real bad words. So then I also used bad words. I told them, “Even eunuchs can use guns, if you are really men I will take you on”. (Nahida, woman survivor, now living in AA32 area, Ahmedabad). There was a lot of suggestive sexual violence, verbal [abuse], hitting women on the breasts, targeting private parts, pregnant women were specifically targeted. The policemen also said that the [Muslim] child should not be born. There have been incidents of children being flung across the room. (Sonia, woman activist, organizations BO18 and BO8, Baroda). Police were also reported to be inactive while they witnessed violence in the most seriously affected places. The State administration colluded with perpetrators of the violence at all levels and continues to do so till today. Investigations into most cases have been shoddy and there are many reasons (elaborated in greater detail later in the report) to believe that the judiciary has also been biased against the Muslim community. Tacit and active support had begun before the violence, which allowed the Hindu right-wing to propagate its ideology among people, carry out its training camps and lay the ground for violence of this nature. We were told in many places that pamphlets produced by VHP and RSS were distributed extensively among Hindus for up to three months before the carnage. These pamphlets called upon men from the Hindu community to rape women from the Muslim community. The pamphlets argued for the necessity of violence and murder of Muslims. According to an activist Lata from AO9 organization in Ahmedabad, a pamphlet that stated, “Don’t feel guilty to rape women of the other community,” was distributed in a Bajrang Dal training camp prior to the violence. The gendered and sexualised character of the Hindutva project associates manhood and potency with Hindu domination of “foreign invaders.” 3.2 The making of “Real Hindu Men” When the brother of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin,3affiliated to the RSS, was interviewed he claimed, that they wanted to show Indians that there were Indians who would not suffer humiliation– that there were still men left among the Hindus. Similarly, Reshma, an activist of BO8 and BO9 from Baroda, reported: Actually bangles were being sent to areas that were not experiencing violence to incite them into violence. Now there are similar pamphlets being distributed that say that now that we will win elections, there will be time for those people that have not participated in the violence to redeem themselves.The bangles signified cowardice by feminizing the recipient, but they also alluded to womanhood as the negation of manhood and of potency. People in Ahmedabad also reported that Hindu men, including policemen, would stand in line and expose their penises to show that they were taking part in the violence as “true men.” Lata, an activist from AO9 organization in Ahmedabad reported an incident where Hindu men exposed their penises saying: “Your men are weak, we’re strong, you’re not strong enough to _ your own 3Gandhi’s assassination by RSS member Nathuram Godse shortly after India gained its independence is in many ways considered the symbolic founding moment of the modern Hindutva movement in India.
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women.” The police too was party to such attacks as Shazia from AA32 area in Ahmedabad testified: …(on March 1) they set our house on fire and continued rampage. P.S.I. (Police Sub-Inspector) Modi was standing in front of our house. He unzipped his trousers and started making vulgar gesture at women. We were totally shocked and embarrassed. Then we saw that the mob which was standing on the terrace of AA54, AA55 area followed suit. They took off their trousers and started to shout, “Where are the terrorists? Come out now. Call your God.” Hindu manhood thus becomes the violent protector of Hindus, the basis for the creation of a “pure Hindu State” and a means of controlling the Muslim Other. The gender discourse of Hindutva advocates specific terms and parameters for Hindu women’s participation in society as well. Within the context of Hindutva it seems that two distinct female figures are emerging: one that is subordinate and docile and the other that is aggressive and rises to the nationalist call-to-arms against the Muslim Other. 3.3 The “Hindu Woman” The construction of the ideal Hindu woman as dependent on the authority of her father/husband, subordinate, dutiful and sacrificing producer of children is connected closely to the concept of the Hindu woman as guarantor and defender of Hindu (and therefore “Indian”) culture. “Mother India” is a powerful image in Hindutva imagination and in the perception of national boundaries. Although originally the RSS, as a result of German fascist ideological influence, tried to create an image of India as “The Fatherland,” it did not gain much currency. Instead, one of the repeated campaigns of the BJP has been to oblige children, during school assembly, to sing/swear allegiance to “Mother India” or Matrubhumi,whom they must be ready to “defend” like her numerous “offspring” have done in the past. Hindutva forces have mobilized this rhetoric to great advantage by recruiting women in thousands to provide strategic support (cooking food, handling equipment) for men who were wreaked the worst violence that took place in Gujarat in 2002. Women also themselves actively participated in looting and violence during the riots. Safia, a woman from AA1 area in Ahmedabad testified, “AHM15’s daughter was pulling women by hair and throwing them in fire…. We saw women from AA6 area pouring kerosene or some chemical powder so the bodies used to burn.” RSS and VHP camps that offer women training in the use of trishuls and in hand-to-hand combat are becoming more popular. This kind of training and distribution of weapons is also being done in schools. In addition to rhetorical appeals, active participation in Hindu right wing spaces may also attract some women due to the social and, increasingly, political recognition this kind of participation affords. They have been targeting 16-17 year old children since five years back. I know that they have been approaching schools and giving tridents to school children for Rs. 25. They are told this is to protect your religion. If they want to fight, join the militant group that is go into VHP or Bajrang Dal or Durga Vahini, if interested in intellectual work, you can go into RSS. (Aamir, AO7 organization, Ahmedabad). In Gujarat, as in Bosnia or Rwanda, the widespread and furious attacks against women of the minority community were regarded as legitimate not only by male attackers but also by women belonging to the majority community. We heard from testimonies that in some
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I have an attitude and I am not afraid to use it.