Veterans should be enlisted to challenge sexual and gender-based violence,says ex-army serviceman Siddharth ChatterjeeThe brutal gang rape and killing of Jyoti Singh in Dehli in 2012 propelled India into international headlines and sparked nationwide protests. The barbarity of the act outraged millions. But four years on, many shocking incidents of rapes in India continue to horrify the world. Delhi has earned the dishonourable title of “rape capital, and there is still no let-up: the number of rapes committed in the city is increasing,according to national crime records.
In two separate recent incidents, girls as young as two and five years old were raped in Delhi. And in another horrifying episode in Uttar Pradesh in March 2016 a mother was gang raped in front of her three-year-old, and her two-week-old infant killed.
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Source: theguardian.com