India's shame: mother demanding justice for dead daughter beaten

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On camera, a group of policemen are seen manhandling a woman in a pink salwar kameez and a man near her.

One cop then drags the woman along the ground.

This is how the police in Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh responded to a distraught couple whose six-year-old daughter had been found dead this morning in a garbage dump.

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The child's body was found this morning and in a few hours, nearly a hundred protestors gathered in the neighbourhood shouting slogans against the police. Officers used batons on the crowd, and attacked the girl's parents.

The policeman who dragged the mother on the ground has been transferred while two others, who manhandled the protesters, have been suspended. Deputy Inspector General of Aligarh Division, D Prakash, acknowledged that "unnecessary force was used on protesters".

full story: http://www.ndtv.com/article/cities/india-s-shame-mother-demanding-justice-for-dead-daughter-beaten-355803

A friend from high school and of Indian descent posted this on facebook with the comment

I absolutely love this victim-blaming that Indian officials have been doing for centuries. You know what? Not many people are going to like this, but a culture change is needed over there. The amount of sexist, racist, and religious discrimination that goes on there is ridiculous. I know that means that certain things have to be altered after thousands of years, but honestly, just because it's set in culture doesn't exactly mean it's a good thing.

In America, we're finally acknowledging "rape-culture," which has been deeply embedded into our society...The aforementioned sexism, racism, and religious discrimination is so deep in Indian society that kids are growing up with these "ideals."

I wonder how much of the misogyny in India is the legacy of British colonialism the same way African homophobia such as the Uganda "kill gays" bill was largely imported from American missionaries and the age of European colonialism.