I am hoping that more and more people will be discovering that attacking one is attacking all and that the consequences of using violence against a human being always produces negative results.
--- In Politics_CurrentEvents_Group@yahoogroups.com, Kisan <mailbhejna@...> wrote:
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> http://in.news.yahoo.com/minority-women-bangladesh-gang-raped-2001-02-report-052701946.html
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> Minority women in Bangladesh gang raped in 2001-02: report By Indo Asian News
> Service | IANS â€" Tue, Apr 26, 2011 10:57 AM IST
>
> Dhaka, April 26 (IANS) A judicial commission in Bangladesh has concluded that
> 'over 200 minority women were gang raped' in the violence following the October
> 2001 parliamentary poll that was intended to force families 'to leave the
> country'.
> The acts were allegedly committed by cadres of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party
> (BNP) and its ally Jamaat-e-Islami, who won the 2001 poll, the report says,
> citing the 'involvement' of many top leaders and lawmakers of the alliance that
> is now in the opposition.
>
> With Begum Khaleda Zia as the prime minister, the BNP-Jamaat alliance ruled
> Bangladesh during 2001-06.
>
> Violence went on for 15 months and 'the barbarous act was intended to force
> them to leave the country. They were, in the eyes of the culprits, enemies as
> they voted for Awami League', The Daily Star said Tuesday, quoting commission
> sources.
>
> An official of the commission submitted the report to Home Minister Sahara
> Khatun.
>
> It lists over 3,625 incidents of major crimes, including killing, rape, arson
> and looting.
> Media reports at that time had detailed the plight of hundreds of Hindu families
> crossing over to neighbouring India, forcing the Indian government to express
> concern.
>
> Bangladeshi poet Daud Hyder, who visited the camps in India where these
> families were lodged and wrote about it, was later charged with sedition and
> imprisoned.
>
> The wave of violence was the subject of 'Lajja' by novelist Taslima Nasreen,
> who angered the Islamists at home and was forced to leave Bangladesh. She still
> remains exiled.
>
> Many victims and their family members interviewed by the probe panel narrated
> 'harrowing experiences', but said they did not lodge police reports or undergo
> forensic tests for fear of inviting social stigma, the report says.
> An official said the victims think putting their names on record as rape victims
> will worsen their life in society.
>
> Many victims and their family members across the country contacted the
> commission when it was conducting the probe.
> According to the panel, it would be 'tough or, to some extent, impossible' to
> continue the probe into the rape allegations, 'as the victims themselves are
> unwilling to do the legal battle'.
>
> The probe panel found that most of the gang rapes occurred in the country's
> southern part - Bhola, Barisal, Agoiljhara and Gaurnadi.
> The accused were acquitted for lack of witnesses. In some cases, police gave
> final reports while the names of the accused were dropped in over 500 cases out
> of the 3,625 major crime incidents.
>
> With the passing of a decade, some of the accused utilised 'good connection
> with ruling Awami League men', which forced the police to drop many cases, the
> media report said.
>
> The panel has named several BNP and Jamaat leaders for their 'involvement' in
> the post-poll violence.
> Kisan.
>
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