Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Now it can be told.
The two women killed in Khairlanji--the infamous incident that caused delayed riots in the state including Mumbai-- were not raped, according to the two post-mortem reports. I wrote about this in my paper after confirming it from government sources.
One could now dispute the PM report itself but the fact remains that this is an official document, belonging to the government and if this report says it's not rape or even sexual behaviour of any kind, it's the government's duty to point this out in the better interests of society. The murders are gross enough but if there's a supposed untruth, they owe it to the people to out with it.
The media has written about how there was an economic aspect to the Khairlanji murders but thre is no real understanding ot what happened. Government and intelligence reports indicate a farmhand was not paid Rs 500-600 and went to the Dalit boss to demand his money. That was the flashpoint of the flare-up.

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