Manipur: India’s Modi breaks silence on ethnic violence in Manipur after a video shows women being molested by a mob!
‘The police were with the mob that was attacking our village. The police picked us up from near the house and took us a little away from the village and left us on the road with the crowd. We were handed over to them by the police.
A day after a video surfaced of two women from the Kuki-Zomi community in Manipur being paraded naked and sexually assaulted, one of the victims told The Indian Express that they were “abandoned by the police to the mob”.
Two women, one in her 20s and the other in her 40s, can be seen being led naked across the road and towards the farm by a mob of men. Some men can be seen dragging two women towards the field and molesting them forcefully. In a police complaint lodged on May 18, the victims had also alleged that the younger woman was “brutally gang-raped in broad daylight”
n the complaint, he had said that after his village in Kangpokpi district was attacked by a mob, he fled to the forest for shelter and was later rescued by the Thoubal police and was being taken to the police station, but was thrashed by the mob. Stopped on the way and caught from police custody about two kilometers away from the police station.
However, speaking to The Indian Express over the phone from her husband’s home, the younger woman alleged: “The police were with the mob that was attacking our village. The police picked us up from near the house and took us a little away from the village and left us on the road with the crowd. We were handed over to them by the police.”
In their complaint, the victims had said that five of them were together: the two women seen in the video, another woman in her 50s who was allegedly decapitated, and the father and brother of the youngest woman, whom they alleged were lynched by the mob.
He said, “After all the people were killed, and the mob did what they did, we stayed back and ran away.”
He said he and his family were not aware of the existence of any video capturing the incident, the circulation of which sparked a national outrage and forced the state government and police to act two months after the FIR was registered. It was lying
