Rasende folkemængde trak offeret gennem byen Dimapur i det nordøstlige Indien. Han fik sine klæder flået i stykker, blev gennemtævet og siden hængt på åben gade – også etniske undertoner bag drabet i det konfliktramte Nagaland.
Police say they have charged 42 people in connection with the lynching of a suspected rapist, Syed Sharif Khan, who was taken from prison by a mob in the main city in Nagaland state, BBC reports Monday.
Police said Mr Khan was a Bengali-speaking Muslim trader from the neighbouring state of Assam. He was arrested in February on charges of raping a 19-year-old tribal woman three times.
Mr Khan’s brother said he was picked on because of ethnic reasons. According to reports, the woman was related to Mr Khan by marriage.
The lynching happened in the midst of a controversy in India over the government’s decision to ban India’s Daughter, a documentary about the 2012 gang rape and murder of a student in Delhi.
But the killing is also linked to rising ethnic tensions in Nagaland, whose indigenous tribespeople have blamed migrants from Assam state and Bangladesh for settling on their land.
Dokumentarfilmen “Indiens Døtre” har netop haft verdenspremiere i København efter at den blev forbudt i Indien. Se mere på
http://www.u-landsnyt.dk/radiotv-indhold/indiens-dotre-voldtaegten-der-rystede-verden
Mere om den lange og dybe konflikt i Nagaland på
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagaland
