Killings of a six-year-old girl and a vet are just two examples of a problem that appears to be getting worse'If you saw her body, you will never sleep again': despair as India rape crisis grows'If you saw her body, you will never sleep again': despair as India rape crisis growsHer family called her Twinkle. “If you saw her body, you will never sleep again,” said her grandfather Mahvir Meena. And last Saturday, in the small rural Rajasthan village of Kherli, Twinkle became one of the youngest recent victims of India’s sexual violence pandemic. But that afternoon, as she left through the bright orange school gates, Meena allegedly took her to the forest behind the school. Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP via Getty ImagesIn the Indian parliament this week, the response by several politicians to the Hyderabad rape case was simply to call for the accused to be lynched and hanged.

Source: The Guardian December 06, 2019 11:47 UTC