This is how some sections of the media demonize the mighty army of my country. I am happy that, a handsome part of such type of Reporters are now with Aam Aadmi Party The Konan women contradicted themselves on each telling to different interlocutors, the media and to us. The mother of a full-term pregnant victim told us that the girl was raped by three men, kicked in the stomach and delivered a baby with a fractured arm in the Kupwara district hospital three days later. She herself jumped out of the window and lay wailing all night in the snow until discovered by police escorts around 4 am. However, the DC’s report stated that the girl had delivered her baby three days before she was assaulted. She could walk to the Kupwara hospital in her condition but the DC was snowbound and unable to leave his house during this same period! After being made aware of these many contradictions, blatant procedural and legal lapses, wilful inaction and lack of follow-up, we were later handed a video cassette in Delhi by a leading human rights activist obtained from unknown sources that recounted the entire Konan episode in graphic detail by 25 women, all well-groomed, and some men, and finally by the same teacher, who delivered the same harangue we had heard personally. The foliage on the trees suggested the film was made sometime in April, five to eight weeks after the event. Who would make such a staged video, and why? The PCI report is the most exhaustive and detailed report of the alleged Konan Poshpora incident made by anybody. Sadly, it was and is widely criticised to this day, without critics having read it or controverted its substantive findings. The mainstream Indian media had shamefully fled the scene in 1990-91, and there was an information vacuum largely filled by gun-wielding militants who spouted lies indianexpress/article/opinion/columns/the-many-stories-of-konan-poshpora/99/
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 07:37:55 +0000
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