The incident is said to have happened on 4 May, the day after large riots broke out in the state of Manipur in the north-east of India. Campaigns arose between the two ethnic groups Meitei and Kuki-Zo. Meitei is mainly of Hindu faith, while Kuki-Zo has mostly Christian members. The 26-second video shows a group of men, among these young people, groping and sexually assaulting two women. The two women in the video belong to Kuki-Zo, write Al Jazeera. On Thursday there were protests in New Delhi after the use of sexualized violence in the Manipur region of India. Photo: ARUN SANKAR / AFP After being led through the streets, the women end up in an open field. There, one of the women is said to have been gang-raped, according to the report that was delivered to the police. The woman who was raped was 21 years old. – Shameful The riots between the two groups that started in May have cost at least 130 people their lives, and 400 people have been injured, according to the BBC. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called the harassment of women “shameful”. Photo: Manish Swarup / AP The army has been called in to bring the situation under control, without success. Large areas have been turned into ghost towns, with tin roofs that have melted as a result of violent fires. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called the harassment of women afterwards “shameful”. He urged leaders in the various states to ensure women’s safety. “All civil society should be ashamed of this,” Modi said after the opposition forced the prime minister to comment on the riots. After riots and fires, 60,000 people have had to flee their homes. Photo: Altaf Qadri / AP Skuldar at the police The families of the two victims reported the incident to the police on 18 May. More than a month must have passed before the case was transferred to the district where the abuse took place. It was only this week that the video of the incident spread on the internet. On Thursday, a man belonging to the Meiti group was arrested, according to Al Jazeera. On Thursday there were protests in New Delhi after the use of sexualized violence in the Manipur region of India. Photo: ARUN SANKAR / AFP – A thorough investigation is now being carried out, and we will take strict action against those involved. It also includes possible death penalty, Chief Minister N Biren Singh tweeted after the arrest. The family of the 21-year-old woman claims that the police did not resist a Meitei mob that attacked a village. – My husband was killed by the mob. We begged the police to save us, says her mother. Democracy under pressure Ethnic conflicts in India have raged for several decades. The republic with 1.37 billion inhabitants is considered a secular democracy, but the Modi government has introduced several discriminatory laws. The persecution of Muslims in India has increased, writes the democracy organization Freedom House. In 2002, over a thousand people were killed in the state of Gujrat. Most of the victims were Muslims. Prime Minister Modi was then the leader of Gujrat, and he has repeatedly been accused of being behind a conspiracy against India’s Muslim minority.
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