{"id":175111,"date":"2023-07-26T14:52:34","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T18:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=175111"},"modified":"2023-08-28T15:55:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T19:55:54","slug":"rally-in-parc-extension-condemns-violence-against-women-in-manipur-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/rally-in-parc-extension-condemns-violence-against-women-in-manipur-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Rally in Parc Extension condemns violence against women in Manipur, India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor's Note: This story discusses sexualized violence. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, members of the South Asian community in Montreal gathered outside of Parc metro to protest an incident of sexual violence in Manipur, India, and call for the removal of the chief minister of the state.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Members of the South Asian Diaspora Action Collective (SADAC), and the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Centre sur l\u2019Asie du sud (CERAS)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, condemned a viral video of the incident that had surfaced the week before.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The video showed two women being assaulted and stripped naked by a crowd of men. One was later gang raped.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The conflict in Manipur has been ongoing for months. It was initially sparked by a disagreement over rights to land and jobs between the Hindu Meitei and the Christian Kuki communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Protestors also condemned the BJP government\u2019s handling of the situation in Manipur. They say the government\u2019s exclusionary Hindu nationalism has led Prime Minister Narendra Modi to overlook violence toward minority communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After over two months of silence, Modi finally spoke out, calling the incident \u201cshameful for any civilized nation.\u201d He also warned the perpetrators, saying, \u201cwhat has happened to the daughters of Manipur can never be forgiven.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For protestors, however, this was nothing but empty words.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFor all these two months, he had been silent while the whole state had been burning,\u201d said one protestor, who asked to be identified as Haaji for fear of reprisal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNow when he comes out, he gives a two-minute speech, and still within that speech he plays politics.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the story below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: This story discusses sexualized violence. On Monday, members of the South Asian community in Montreal gathered outside of Parc metro to protest an incident of sexual violence in Manipur, India, and call for the removal of the chief minister of the state. Members of the South Asian Diaspora Action Collective (SADAC), and the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":175118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,225],"tags":[29623,29626,29625,29478,29481,29622,3138,29624],"radio":[28325],"origine":[274,1145,260],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175111"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175683,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175111\/revisions\/175683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175111"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=175111"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=175111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}