In the ongoing violence against minorities, particularly women in India, two more young women from Manipur were brutally raped and killed on the same day two Christian women from Kuki tribe were stripped, paraded, and gang raped by a Hindu mob. The women were set upon by a large group of men, accompanied by some women who actively encouraged the heinous act in Manipur’s Kangpokpi district. The attackers then took the victims into a room where they were subjected to sexual assault, torture, unimaginable horror and finally murdered.

The attackers switched off the lights, gagged the victims with clothes to stifle their cries, and subjected them to this harrowing ordeal for about one-and-a-half hours. After the ordeal, the victims were dragged outside and left next to a sawmill in a bloodied and mutilated state. Their clothes were torn, their hair was chopped off, and their bodies bore the marks of unspeakable violence.

Due to the fear of social stigma attached to sexual assault, the identities of the victims were initially not disclosed. However, the mother of one of the victims showed immense courage and filed a Zero FIR at the Saikul police station. The FIR stated that her daughter and the other woman were “brutally murdered after being raped and gruesomely tortured.” As of now, no arrests have been made in connection with this horrifying incident.

 
Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP)