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Women's bodies demand armymen accused of rape be tried in civil courts
Times of India | Naresh Mitra | TNN | Jan 7, 2013, 12.30 AM IST
In insurgency-hit northeast, protectors have been aggressors for a long time now, and women are the worst sufferers. There have been many instances, documented as well as undocumented, of women being raped and molested by men in uniform. Armymen deployed to contain militancy take cover under laws such as AFSPA, which give them sweeping powers and make them unpunishable in the civil court of law, to exploit the vulnerability of women in such areas.
Standing up against such crimes which armymen commit with impunity, women's organisations have asked for necessary amendments to laws so that army jawans accused of rape can be tried in civil courts. One such group is Women in Governance-India (WinG-India), a network of civil society groups working for women's security and raising issues related to the fair sex in national and international forums.
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