Rukhsar is one among the uncountable women who were sexually assaulted by the communal mobs. She identifies the culprits who orchestrated the violence in her locality.
Sexual Violence against Muslim women during #DelhiPogrom - A Thread
1. Razia
Razia recalls the sexual violence that she had witnessed. She saw the mob tearing clothes of a girl and then throwing her into fire. Her husband has been mentally unstable since they have been rescued.
Rukhsar is one among the uncountable women who were sexually assaulted by the communal mobs. She identifies the culprits who orchestrated the violence in her locality.
Fatima went back to her home in Shiv Vihar to look for her goats whom she worried would die.
“They pulled my dupatta and tore my shalwar’s sleeve. I was saved by a family that was still living in the area,” Fatima said. “The family said I was with them, the men
“If it weren’t for them, I don’t know if I would be here”.
Rubina, then three months pregnant, was brutally beaten up by not only the communal mob but also by the police. She recalls the communal slurs and slogans of Jai Shree Ram and Ye Le Azadi when a man in police uniform tried to kill her with a stone rendering
5. Shabana, 26
“The mob beat me with lathis… Some kicked me in the stomach. They stopped after a while, destroyed the house, and left,” said a pregnant Shabana when a mob attacked after
Shabnam, while fleeing from her home, was caught by six to seven men who started beating and
molesting her. “They did whatever they could, hit me with what they had, and touched me in
my private parts. They did everything…the only thing they didn’t do was rape me
and tore their clothes. A mother of a one-year-old wept as she narrated how her clothes were
torn to shreds by several men who entered her house.190 Muskan, a 20-year-old Muslim girl
was eight months pregnant, was set upon by a Hindu mob. “They threw me to the ground,
kicked my stomach and my whole body..I pleaded with them not to harm my baby, I said
‘please, please’ over and over, but they kept kicking”, recalls Muskan in a frail voice. In Shiv
Vihar,
jayengen, burqe wali layengen.” At the Chand Bagh protest site, men from the communal
mobs exposed their genitals to the women protestors and shouted “Ye Lo Aazadi” (Take this:
freedom!)
killed”. When the violent mob walked towards a couple of Muslim households, chanting “Jai
Shri Ram” slogans, a woman in the vicinity heard them categorically saying: bring them out and
they will
Another woman narrated how her clothes were torn to shreds by several men who entered her
house forcefully. When these women, who were in such precarious situation, made calls to the
police, there was no timely response from the police. One of these
Police kept on assuring them every time they called up but they never came to help them.
In the testimonies, women have recounted how the mob was carrying acid and using it to attack women in the immediate vicinity. A woman in a video interview spoke about
her, her daughter and her brother in law. She said that she still carries the marks on her face and that her clothes turned to paper as a result. Her daughter and her
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That's weird. Income inequality in China is legendary.
Let's check this number.
2/The New York Times cites the World Bank's recent report, "Fair Progress? Economic Mobility across Generations Around the World".
The report is available here:
3/The World Bank report has a graph in which it appears to show the same value for China's Gini - under 0.3.
The graph cites the World Development Indicators as its source for the income inequality data.
4/The World Development Indicators are available at the World Bank's website.
Here's the Gini index: https://t.co/MvylQzpX6A
It looks as if the latest estimate for China's Gini is 42.2.
That estimate is from 2012.
5/A Gini of 42.2 would put China in the same neighborhood as the U.S., whose Gini was estimated at 41 in 2013.
I can't find the <30 number anywhere. The only other estimate in the tables for China is from 2008, when it was estimated at 42.8.
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