A major reason why gender violence during riots largely goes unreported is because it becomes one of the many crimes taking place in a tense situation, unlike an isolated case of rape where the crime takes place when the victim may be least expecting it. Archana Dwivedi, deputy director of Nirantar, a Delhi based resource centre for gender, visited Muzaffarnagar. She says, "Women become subjects of many forms of violence during communal violence — their houses being burnt, children killed and husbands getting maimed before them. Although brutal, gangrape is one of the many forms of tortures in such clashes."
Posted on: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 05:38:51 +0000
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