{"id":4870,"date":"2007-11-26T17:35:15","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T22:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=4870"},"modified":"2007-11-26T14:39:31","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T19:39:31","slug":"this_is_an_unci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/26\/this_is_an_unci\/","title":{"rendered":"“This is an uncivilized act.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tipster Scherezade alerts us to a disturbing story<\/a> out of Guwahati, about a protest gone horribly awry:\n\"beaten.jpg\"<\/p>\n\n

Assam was rocked by violence during Saturday’s protests by tribals backed by the All Assam Adivasi Students’ Association (AAASA) students when locals brutally beat them up resulting in at least one death and over 250 people getting injured.<\/blockquote>\n\n
But not only were the Adivasi students beaten up but the women protesters were stripped and molested by the residents of Guwahati.<\/strong><\/blockquote>\n\n
A local Assamese businessman Ratul Burman was seen attacking a woman after she was stripped during clashes on Saturday. Burman and two others have been arrested. Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has announced a Rs 1 lakh compensation to the woman.<\/blockquote>\n\n

The Chief Minister has indicated that he wants Burman to receive the “maximum punishment” for his role in this assault. More than 250 people were injured in Saturday’s protests.<\/p>\n\n

In more incidents of violence in Assam two more people have been killed, one of them shot in firing by the army.<\/blockquote>\n\n
Army was called in to stage flag marches in Guwahati on Saturday evening after Adivasi students went on the rampage, looting shops and burning vehicles in Assam’s capital city.<\/blockquote>\n\n

The cause of the protest? A desire for Scheduled Tribe<\/a> status.<\/p>\n\n

In her tip, Scherezade says:<\/p>\n\n

Residents beat up women who were a part of the All Assam Adivasi Students’ Association (AAASA). Local media has been circulating videos of a businessman constantly hitting a naked woman in the genitals with his boots and beating her with a wooden plank.\nHeart-breaking stuff.<\/strong> Stories like these almost never catch the eye of the larger(read: western) media. People I know of, who were witness to this horrendous atrocity lie injured in a hospital. It’s tragic.<\/blockquote>\n\n

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Title is a quote from Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, about Burman’s violent assault on the women in the photograph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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