Just want to remind everyone that the day that the #Hathras gang rape happened (Sep 14), a health care worker was also gang-raped in a moving car in Meerut.
thehindu.com/news/national/…
I looked over the violence data we (RA and I) are compiling and realised we had two incidents for Sep 14. The identity of the first victim remains unknown.
We also have this gang-rape from Sep 3, 2020 in UP in which the victim is a 15 year old girl
thehindu.com/news/national/…
And this one also from early Sept 2020, in which the victim is 3 years old. We do not know if this is a gang-rape.
hindustantimes.com/cities/up-3-ye…
Last month I had also pointed out that something odd is happening in UP's specific districts Lakhimpur Kheri and Shamli because we were seeing incidents too frequently. Note, we are only coding gang-rapes in our data but I did take personal note of these:
Along with these incidents pointing to a severe crisis of lawlessless, I have also catalogued a spate of killings in rural UP targeted at panchayat heads or their families.
Here is a link to where we found some of the incidents about targeted killings. Link is suspected to be panchayat elections which are in the offing.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/meerut/sp…
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