India arrests over rape suspect lynching
Source: BBC
Police in north-eastern India say they have arrested 18 people in connection with the lynching of a suspected rapist who was taken from prison by a mob.
Farid Khan was stripped naked by the crowd, beaten and dragged through the streets before being hanged in Dimapur, the main city in Nagaland state.
Hundreds of policemen have been patrolling the streets of Dimapur since the incident amid increasing tension.
A curfew was also imposed in the city on Sunday to maintain peace.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-31792402
is fucked up.
rpannier
(24,350 posts)Police say Khan was a Bengali-speaking Muslim trader from neighbouring Assam state. He was arrested in February on charges of raping a 19-year-old tribal woman several times.
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But correspondents say the killing is also linked to rising ethnic tensions in Nagaland, whose indigenous tribespeople have blamed migrants from neighbouring Assam state and Bangladesh for settling on their lands.
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brett_jv
(1,245 posts)Not that I support extra-judicial vigilante killings are a general rule, but ... it's not everyday you hear of rapists being held to account quite like this in India ...
Now it turns out to NOT just be simple revenge for the horrific suffering of the young woman.
That's too bad. The whole thing, really.
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)not a damned thing to even remotely cheer about either someone who has not had a trial or someone who was probably murdered for being a foreigner and one with a different religion being murdered.
IronLionZion
(45,628 posts)Sometimes it's a case of he looks like the type of undesirable who might do such a thing, so let's lynch him just in case. And even here on DU, since there have been some high profile horrifying rape cases from India, some DUers have started to subconsciously associate Indian people with rape.
Plenty of this nonsense happened in the US south before the civil rights movement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till
JI7
(89,287 posts)gives a shit about rape itself .
they went after him because he was a muslim . then went on to attack other people and places that are owned by muslims.