Three little sisters were grabbed as the walked home from school,
raped, brutally killed then dumped down a well. If this had happened in
Europe there would be a colossal outcry, marchers in the streets and
candle-lit vigils. Questions would be asked in Parliament.
But the
little girls, aged seven. nine and eleven, lived in Maharashtra in
India. The same India PM David Cameron has been flirting with all week.
The same India that he rightly apologised to for the massacre at
Amritsar. The modern India that sees itself as a new world power.
That
India has a very long way to go. It seems they see Britain as a spent
force, they are bemused by the way we seek to ingratiate ourselves. That
is their right. We can look at them and wonder. Why did the Indian
police do nothing? Why did villagers have to force shops to close, block
roads and burn tyres before these so called "accidental deaths" were
investigated and post mortems revealed the true horror?
Take a
look at a seven year old girl, or even an eleven-year-old. Does she look
as though she deserves the protection of her society? She won't get
that in India.
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