In letter to PM, 637 academics express anger over rape cases
They’re Irked By PM’s Prolonged Silence After Kathua, Unnao Cases
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
22.04.2018
New Delhi: A group of 637 academics from India and abroad have come out in solidarity with the 49 retired civil servants who recently expressed their outrage at the Kathua and Unnao rape incidents blaming Prime Minister Narendra Modi for belatedly speaking up on the issue and claiming his dispensation wasn’t doing enough to stop the “pattern of repeated targeted attacks on minority religious communities, dalits, tribals andwomen”.
In an open letter to Modi, academics like Noam Chomsky and writers like Amit Chaudhuri, said they were expressing their “deep anger and anguish” over the events in Kathua and Unnao and the aftermath of these events including the PM’s “own prolonged (and by now familiar) silence that was broken only recently with wholly inadequate, platitudinous, and nonspecific assurances of justice for the victims.”
Last week, PM Modi, had condemned the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua and the alleged rape of a teenager by a BJP MLA in Unnao, and said the culprits will be brought to justice. Thereafter, during his recent visit to London, he insisted that rapesshould notbe politicised.
Citing several examples of mob attacks andlynchings,the letter said, “Many of these events have occurred in states withBJP governments, and all of them after the BJP assumed power attheCentre.Thisis not to associate violenceexclusively with your party and with state governments presided over by your party. But there is an undeniable association withthe ruling dispensation”.
It ends by saying, “We send you this letter because it is our duty to do so; so that we are not guilty of silence; and so that callousness and cowardice might finally draw the line at the broken body of a little girl and the rape of a young woman.”
OPEN ATTACK: The academics said they were expressing their “deep anger and anguish” over the events in Kathua and Unnao and the aftermath of these events including the PM’s “own prolonged silence that was broken only recently with wholly inadequate, platitudinous, and non-specific assurances of justice for the victims”
They’re Irked By PM’s Prolonged Silence After Kathua, Unnao Cases
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
22.04.2018
New Delhi: A group of 637 academics from India and abroad have come out in solidarity with the 49 retired civil servants who recently expressed their outrage at the Kathua and Unnao rape incidents blaming Prime Minister Narendra Modi for belatedly speaking up on the issue and claiming his dispensation wasn’t doing enough to stop the “pattern of repeated targeted attacks on minority religious communities, dalits, tribals andwomen”.
In an open letter to Modi, academics like Noam Chomsky and writers like Amit Chaudhuri, said they were expressing their “deep anger and anguish” over the events in Kathua and Unnao and the aftermath of these events including the PM’s “own prolonged (and by now familiar) silence that was broken only recently with wholly inadequate, platitudinous, and nonspecific assurances of justice for the victims.”
Last week, PM Modi, had condemned the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua and the alleged rape of a teenager by a BJP MLA in Unnao, and said the culprits will be brought to justice. Thereafter, during his recent visit to London, he insisted that rapesshould notbe politicised.
Citing several examples of mob attacks andlynchings,the letter said, “Many of these events have occurred in states withBJP governments, and all of them after the BJP assumed power attheCentre.Thisis not to associate violenceexclusively with your party and with state governments presided over by your party. But there is an undeniable association withthe ruling dispensation”.
It ends by saying, “We send you this letter because it is our duty to do so; so that we are not guilty of silence; and so that callousness and cowardice might finally draw the line at the broken body of a little girl and the rape of a young woman.”
OPEN ATTACK: The academics said they were expressing their “deep anger and anguish” over the events in Kathua and Unnao and the aftermath of these events including the PM’s “own prolonged silence that was broken only recently with wholly inadequate, platitudinous, and non-specific assurances of justice for the victims”
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