{"id":3988,"date":"2006-11-27T17:42:56","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T22:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=3988"},"modified":"2006-11-27T17:22:56","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T22:22:56","slug":"for_shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/27\/for_shame\/","title":{"rendered":"For Shame."},"content":{"rendered":"

May her memory<\/a> be eternal, may her murderer rot<\/a> in hell. From the news tab (Thanks, Maurice<\/a>):<\/p>\n\n

\nTHE plight of India’s untouchables was highlighted again yesterday after a 15-year-old Dalit rape victim was burned alive for refusing to drop charges against her alleged upper-caste attacker<\/strong>.<\/blockquote>\n\n
\nAsha Katiya reportedly told police before she died of her burns at a hospital in Pipariya, in the state of Madhya Pradesh, that the man had threatened to kill her if she did not change her statement in court.<\/blockquote>\n\n

Raped in July, Asha was a month away from going to court. She was brave enough to seek justice, he was vile enough to react like this:<\/p>\n\n

\n“I will burn you, set your house afire and cut your father into pieces,<\/strong>” Asha’s mother, Shashibai, quoted the 22-year-old man as warning them when she and her daughter were working in the fields near their home the day before the blaze.<\/blockquote>\n\n

Such determination to punish his accuser:<\/p>\n\n

\nNewspapers reported that late on the day of the blaze, the man rode past Asha’s home on a horse and that night “doused the victim with kerosene from an opening in the roof of a room where she was sleeping and threw a burning matchstick”.<\/blockquote>\n\n

Asha’s family couldn’t save her; there was no easy way to speed her to a hospital.<\/p>\n\n

“The family members alleged that though there are many vehicles in the upper-caste dominated village, no one came to their rescue and they had to call one from Sandia, 8km away,” one local newspaper reported.<\/blockquote>\n\n

\nThe article<\/a> used all the right language, i.e. “alleged” or “claimed”, but I can’t help but think that if you do something so evil to silence your victim, there’s no need for doubt.<\/p>\n\n

\nPolice said the man named by Asha as her attacker had been arrested.<\/blockquote>\n\n

I hope he doesn’t get away with this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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