Anti-rape protests in Delhi bring back a mothers grisly memories

February 11, 2013 11:20

It may be 20 years for everyone else but for Safia (name changed on request), it seems like 20 seconds. Overwhelmed by the nationwide outrage over the Delhi gang rape, she is anguished that no one helped when she and her 19-year-old daughter were stripped and gang-raped.

The mob burnt her daughter alive while she managed to escape on January 10, 1993, in the heat of the communal carnage in the city, after the Babri Masjid was destroyed. Read the report on the Hindu.

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