The Gujarat massacre and minority women:

While no victim's pain is more or less than another's in a holocaust such as this, it is true that Muslim women have been used as a battle-ground by Hindu attackers to "settle" religious differences. A six-member team of women undertook a fact-finding mission at the end of March to assess the impact of the continuing violence against minority women in Gujarat and found that the sexual crimes were grossly under-reported. They found the following types of compelling and disturbing evidence of sexual violence against Muslim women: "Among the women surviving in relief camps, are many who have suffered the most bestial forms of bestial violence--including rape, gang rape, mass rape, stripping, insertion of objects into their bodies, molestations. A majority of rape victims have been burnt alive". (p. 6, Citizen's Initiative, April 16, 2002)
 

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