The reason for this crime DOES NOT matter. No one should be persecuted by the public, in public under any circumstance. The fact that this mob of men man-handled this women in the busiest part of the city with no police interaction shows you just how poorly women are treated and ignored by the state.
There is a small child watching the mob strip this woman. The look in his eyes is eerie. His stone cold face is the face of the future. That is the saddest part of the story. He sees this type of violence as normal, acceptable and fun (as the smiling men in the background look on). He will grow up and perpetuate the cycle of discrimination that has kept women in Nepal from achieving any remnants of equality. This is heart-breaking.
I was just there, in the place were this woman was assaulted. I rode my bike past it everyday and now to see this, from thousands of miles away I am more horrified than ever. Justice in Nepal does not exist. Lawlessness prevails and the mob rules all.
Mob parades woman naked in Kathmandu
30 May 2009, 0019 hrs IST, TNN
Times of India
KATHMANDU: Watched by fearful children and passersby, a mob of nearly 50 young men beat up a woman and paraded her naked in the heart of capital city Kathmandu with no one daring to protest even as Nepal’s political parties said they were writing a new constitution that would empower women and other disadvantaged people.
The unidentified woman, who looked to be in her 30s, was stripped of her red printed salwar-kameez and white dupatta. Then the crowd tore off her undergarments and rained abuse and blows with lathis.
The shocking incident occurred in the Ratna Park area of Kathmandu, one of the busiest spots in the capital where new Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal on Friday laid down the foundation of a martyrs’ memorial.
The area, teeming with public transport and shops, is also close to a main police station. Though the cornered woman repeatedly cried out in fear, asking people to save her, nobody dared to intervene.
The woman could have been a sex worker, who abound the area, or mistaken as one. Though it happened on May 20, it came to public notice only this week with a passerby taking photographs of the scene and sending them to a Nepali blog site, Mysansar.com The blog is now appealing for justice, saying the attack is all the more shocking as it happened in the heart of the capital.
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This breaks my heart. No person should have to endure this type of torture or humiliation, and no child should have to witness it.
This is really sad and disturbing news. This is one of the shameful act done by some of the people. This has hampered Nepal and its people. I also urge anyone who read this email not to think or blame whole Nepal and its people.
Raju
If the reason that shes was treated this way in public doesn't matter then you should be able to say it the. You are not only being one sided to such a situation but u are also giving the peoples actions there not justification and you are also making them look like monsters with bad intentions only, and i don't think the Nepali people are bad people at all.
I remember this. I was there, on my return back home from work - around 8:30 in the evening.
There were lines of young girls being raped on the footpath in front of Durbar High School. around 20 girls, and around 100 men. The girls were standing and waiting their turn to be molested and raped. I saw one was being raped with her legs on the gutter (where her kurta's suruwal was mud soaked already) and body on the pavement.
I stopped my bike with the biggest shock of my life. Looked around - hundreds of men !!!
And there was a group of policemen - ones with just sticks. around 100 meters away. Waiting for it to be over so that they can come and charge the girls for prostitution.
The woman in the picture was the pimp for these girls I was told. So she was paraded naked around Tudikhel (that I didn't see, just heard and then read on mysansar.com).
The men were Young Communist League (YCL) people who wanted to take charge of prostitution business in Thamel, RNAC and surrounding area, and this was an act to get the existing system to stop working. Similar thing also happened in Gwarko where 50+ girls were paraded naked on the streets.
As of date, I hear the Maoists are in charge of prostitution business in Thamel, Ratnapark, New Road, Gwarko, Gaushala, etc. (shifted from Nepali Congress goons, I heard)...
Apart from the part where girls were raped on the footpath that day, rest is all just 'heard'. The rape was what I saw...
From that day, I stopped staying late in office.
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