00:00 The video of two women being assaulted by a mob in Manipur has shaken the country.
00:06 The husband of one of the women in the video is a retired Army Subedar and Kargil War veteran.
00:12 He said that his native place is more horrifying and dangerous than the war.
00:17 According to a report by the Times of India, the couple is now living in a relief camp
00:22 in Churachandpur after their home was turned into ashes by attackers.
00:27 The report revealed that the couple said that they have lost everything in their lives,
00:31 from materials to dignity.
00:33 The 42-year-old woman, who was one of the survivors of the attacks, said, "We two women
00:38 were made to strip at gunpoint in front of thousands of men in the mob in the open.
00:44 They threatened to kill us if we did not shed our clothes.
00:47 They made us dance, shoved us and paraded us.
00:51 They all behaved like wild animals."
00:53 Her 65-year-old husband said that the woman went into depression.
00:58 He said that with their children to take care of, she is struggling to come back to normal.
01:03 The man said, "I have seen the war fighting in the front at Kargil, and when I have returned
01:08 home, my own place is more dangerous than the battlefield."
01:13 For two days, from May 3 to 4, the mob of thousands raided as many as nine villages
01:18 in the area, burning down houses, a church and killing domestic animals.
01:23 The Kargil war veteran said that the mob came into B. Finom village on May 4.
01:28 He said that as they started burning down houses, all villages ran here and there to
01:33 save their lives.
01:34 He said that in this process, his wife got separated from him, and she and four other
01:40 villagers hid behind a tree in the forest.
01:43 The man said that some of the attackers who were chasing their goats, pigs and chickens
01:47 also entered the forest and found his wife and others hiding there and captured them.
01:53 He added that besides his wife, there was a woman and a baby and three members of one
01:56 family.
01:58 The man went on to narrate the ordeal.
02:00 He said that when all the five adults were brought out in the open, they saw a waiting
02:04 police vehicle and hopped into it, but the mob overpowered the two policemen and dragged
02:09 out his wife and the other four.
02:11 In the meantime, the husband and other villagers, who the attackers could get hold of, were
02:15 also brought out of hiding into the village dirt road.
02:19 The man continued narrating, "I could see them taking my wife and the other four to
02:24 a distance.
02:25 The three women were forced to strip.
02:27 One woman who was carrying a baby in her arms was later set free and allowed to go by some
02:32 people in the mob who knew her.
02:34 The mob was trying to molest the other younger woman and, when her father and younger brother
02:39 tried to protect them, they were killed on the spot," the husband said.
02:43 According to the FIR, the younger girl was later brutally gang-raped in broad daylight.
02:48 Police sources said that the gang-rape could not be established as the girl remains traceless.
02:53 The former army personnel said that he was taken away by her boyfriend later.
02:58 He said that after the mob dispersed, all villagers fled the scene.
03:02 Then he walked across the hills and at night, he was finally reunited with his wife at a
03:07 Naga village.
03:08 The man informed that the younger girl was taken away by her boyfriend.
03:12 The man said that he was taken away by his wife at a Naga village.
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